Hi folks 👋
I'm Amy, a Developer Advocate & all round community kind of person.:sparkles:
I've been doing a lot of developer community flavoured things since starting my PhD in Computer Science in 2015 🎓. Including organising the Inspire WiT conference (a conference to help women and other underrepresented folks get into technology based in the midlands UK) in 2016 & 2017 👩💻 👩🔬.
Here's a list of developer community events I've participated in:
- HackNotts 2015 (Nottingham, UK)
- Hack24 2016 (Nottingham, UK)
- HackCon EU 2016 (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
- JacobsHack 2016 (Bremen, Germany)
- BrumHack 2016 (Birmingham, UK)
- AstonHack 2016 (Birmingham, UK)
- HackNotts 2016 (Nottingham, UK)
- Bullhacks 2016 (Birmingham, UK)
- Great North Museum Design Hack 2016 (Newcastle, UK)
- DevRel Con 2016 (London, UK)
- SexTech Hack 2016 (London, UK)
- DurHack 2017 (Durham, UK)
- HackCity 2017 (London, UK)
- Hack UPC 2017 (Barcelona, Spain)
- Anvil Hack 2017 (London, UK)
- CodeMotion Amsterdam 2017 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- GitHub Satellite 2017 (London, UK)
- UK GovHack 2017 (London, UK)
- SciFi Hack 2017 (London, UK)
- HackCon EU 2017 (Birmingham, UK)
- Grace Hopper Celebration 2017 (Orlando, USA)
- GitHub Universe 2017 (San Francisco, USA)
- GitHub Field Day 2017 (London, UK)
- GitHub Field Day 2017 (Nottingham, UK)
- DevRel Con 2017 (London, UK)
- SIGCSE 2018 (Baltimore, USA)
- HackCity 2018 (London, UK)
- GitHub Constellation 2018 (London, UK)
- CodeMotion Amsterdam 2018 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Electromagnetic Fields 2018 (Eastnor, UK)
- Music Tech Fest Labs 2018 (Stockholm, Sweden)
- GitHub Universe 2018 (San Francisco, USA)
- Audio Developer Conference 2018 (London, UK)
- UnCodebar 2018 (London, UK)
- DevRel Con 2018 (London, UK)
- FFconf 2018 (Brighton, UK)
- Abbey Road Red Hackathon 2018 (London, UK)
- You Got This Conf 2019 (London, UK)
- MonkiGras 2019 (London, UK)
- NAMM 2019 (Anaheim, USA)
- CSUN conf 2019 (Anaheim, USA)
- Signal Conf 2019 (San Francisco, USA)
- Grace Hopper Celebration 2019 (Orlando, USA)
- Abbey Road Red Hackathon 2019 (London, UK)
and events that I've delivered talks/workshops at:
- Inspire WiT 2016, 2017 & 2018 (Nottingham, UK)
- HackCity 2017 & 2018 (London, UK)
- Durhack 2017 (Durham, UK)
- GitHub Satellite 2017 (London, UK)
- Audio Mostly 2017 (London, UK)
- GitHub Universe 2017 (San Francisco, USA)
- Anvil Hack 2018 (London, UK)
- SIGCSE 2018 (Baltimore, USA)
- Code Motion 2018 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Geekgirls Carrots meet up 2018 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- AIClubGenderMinority meet up 2018 (London, UK)
- ROLI Demystifying Music Tech 2018 (London, UK)
- AI Girl Rhythm 2018 (London, UK)
- CV FREQS X 2018 (London, UK)
- Audio Developer Conference 2018 (London, UK)
- Monki Gras 2019 (London, UK)
- NAMM 2019 (Anaheim, USA)
- Signal Conf 2019 (San Francisco, USA)
- Grace Hopper Celebration 2019 (Orlando, USA)
- Audio Developer Conference 2019 (London, UK)
and events I've organised:
- Inspire WiT 2016 & 2017 (Nottingham, UK)
- GitHub Field Day 2017 (Nottingham, UK)
- Hacktoberfest 2018 (London, UK)
- Building Inclusive Communities in Tech Panel 2019 (London, UK)
The things I teach include:
introduction to Git; web accessibility; accessibility in music technology; writing music with code; achieving diversity and inclusion.
Watch the "I'm a Developer" video about me, made by the lovely folks at GitHub.