Hello!
I’m a Developer Relations Strategist, Developer Educator and Keynote Speaker with over a decade of experience in Software Engineering.
Having been a contractor for the majority of my career has given me a bevy of perspectives.
My main motivation is community. I’ve actively worked with children, refugees as well as software builders both new and experienced.
I dedicate a significant amount of my time to organising conferences, workshops and other events aimed at helping empower folks in their tech journey.
A healthy community is critical to our success. Let me help you reach that AHA! moment.
- 🇨🇦 English spoken
- 🇨🇱 Se habla Español
- 🇦🇹 Deutschsprachig
- 🇫🇷 Eh... comme ci, comme ça
Selected Experience
Developer Advocate and Developer Relations Strategist
Responsibilites include:
- Built positive relationships with CTOs, open source as well as emerging software developers.
- Planned and executed major DevRel content programs.
- Wrote, planned and executed major Open Source Strategies.
- Held technical and keynote presentations at large conferences.
- Collaborated with worldwide open source events.
- Organised conferences as well as meetups.
- Held weekly livestream shows, where we discuss open source as well as do livecoding.
- Primary focus on accessibility.
- Designed and co-created dev champions programs.
- Co-organised numerous open source initiatives, including Rails Girls Summer of Code, Where2Help.wien, Global Diversity CFP Day, Distribute Aid.
- Co-organised numerous open source initiatives, including Rails Girls Summer of Code, Where2Help.wien, Global Diversity CFP Day, Distribute Aid.
Developer Education
Class Central
https://www.classcentral.com/study-group/js-bootcamp-spring-2022Free JavaScript Bootcamp
January 2021 - Present
Responsibilities include:
- Written and led workshops at conferences and companies.
- Produced and edited tech community video content.
- Hosted, recorded and edited tech community podcasts.
- Written blog posts published on platforms such as Escuela Frontend and Dev.to.
- Planned out full JavaScript and TypeScript video courses.
- Ran free tech bootcamps with a combined total of over 35,000 learners.
Freelance Full Stack Web Engineer
Rails Girls Summer of Code
https://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/Consulting, devops, app maintenance and feature additions
Punk Rock Dev
https://punkrockdev.com/Consulting for Zoomero and Craftstrom devops, full stack web engineering
October 2009 - Present
- Applied clean code practices to existing web apps, simplifying the onboarding experience of first-time contributors.
- Applied test-driven development techniques to increase stability.
- Built full-fledged JSON APIs with self-made authentication, authorization as well as payment handling.
- Applied frontend frameworks to existing backends.
- Regular, security and feature-oriented dependency management, keeping up with development trends and removing unmaintained dependencies.
- Performed code reviews for pull requests on Github, collaborating with fellow maintainers and giving feedback to first-time contributors.
- Applied and maintained a readable, consistent git history using rebasing, merge commits, and other practices.
- Devops tasks, including deploying continuous integration tools, staging, deployment tools, test suite running, linting, review apps, monitoring and/or Docker.
- Implemented Agile practices, assisting in ticketing, organizing standups, kanban reviews.
- Introduced optimizations to improve web performance.
- Wrote and maintained codebase as well as API documentation.
Freelance macOS, Android and iOS App Developer
February 2011 - Present
- Developed and deployed major upgrades to existing apps, increased sales.
- Applied test-driven development techniques to ensure app stability.
- Developed and maintained a streamlined command line toolchain for building, testing and code-signing apps, increasing productivity.
- Prepared and maintained separate versions of apps for the Mac App Store in compliance with Sandbox rules.
- Documented and fixed issues reported by users using Redmine.
- Performed major React Native upgrades, along with dependency management.
Community Work
- Leading Meetups - Vienna.rb, Ruby Habits, Vienna BEAMers, Women Techmakers Vienna, Google Developer Group Vienna, React Vienna.
- Coaching and Mentorship - Rails Girls workshops, Women Developer Academy, Lemmings.io hackathons, RustBridge, teaching children to code.
- Conference Organizing - EuRuKo, Women Techmakers Vienna, DevFest Vienna
- Podcast Hosting - DevRel Book Club
- Podcast Guest Appearances - Hanselminutes, JAMstack Radio, FLOSS Weekly