Community
Highlights from communities I've led and built. You can also read my community building thoughts on my blog.
Gitpod
2021 - 2024
The Gitpod community is a space to learn about Gitpod CDEs, connect with other developers and build cool projects.
Built the community of Gitpod fans from 500 to 5000 members in a year
Led a team of community engineers to ensure consistent community support
Launched the Community Heroes program, onboarded 30 Heroes globally
Launched our meet-up network, bringing together 350+ of our community in person
Hosted bi-weekly "Office Hours" for our members
Led and organised our events and conferences, including KubeCon, DevX Conf and CDE Universe
CDE Universe
2023
A conference about the future of software development - learn best practices in cloud development, CDE adoption and emerging technologies. I organised and hosted the first edition of CDE Universe in San Francisco.
DevX Conf
2021 - 2022
DevX Conf is about developer experience - our daily experience when trying to get the job done. I organised and hosted the second virtual edition of the conference.
DevX Community
2022 - 2024
A curated community for DevX leaders that want to connect, create and exchange learnings and insights.
Brought 100 developer-experience professionals into the community
Hosted virtual events in the community and connected members to broader DevX initiatives
Launched DevXPod, DevX Conf and DevX Digest under this brand
Ladies in DevOps
2021
Ladies in DevOps was launched to bring together women in the DevOps, Infrastructure, and Platform Eng space and highlight the exciting opportunities in this role.
600 women from all over the world joined within two weeks of launching, mostly from social media
Our members created content on DEV.to
We were featured in the JB Cole UK article
Code First Girls
2016 - 2021
Code First Girls is on a mission to transform tech. From student to ambassador to instructor, I spent five years creating the CFG community in North England.
Taught over 200 students how to code in person and virtually
Launched #shefcodefirst and #leedscfg
Connected the community to industry, e.g. we attended weekly conferences, events and hackathons as a community
MedTech Sheffield
2017 - 2018
MedTech Sheffield served as a vibrant hub, uniting people drawn by the interdisciplinary technology and science.
Hosted meet-ups with guests lecturers from Medicine, Biomedical Sciences, Computer Sciences and more
Brought together 50 hackers for #HackMed18 hackathon to solve problems in healthcare and medicine with technology with 50% of them being female participants