Elisha Tan

Elisha is passionate about bringing people together to solve important problems.

She founded TechLadies - a community for women in Asia to learn technical skills to switch careers into the tech industry. TechLadies has thousands of members across Asia, taught hundreds of ladies in Singapore and Malaysia how to code that saw tens of them (without any prior programming background) got technical internships or hired as junior software engineers.

Elisha enjoys sharing her experiences on building developer communities, increasing gender diversity in tech, and starting and failing a tech startup. She was featured on various media such as The Straits Times, Her World, and High Net Worth. She has spoken internationally at IWD by Jobs for NSW, PyCon Thailand, Slush Singapore, Seedstars Summit Asia, Google Women Techmakers, MaGIC Academy Symposium, and RubyConf Malaysia to name a few.

Elisha is based in sunny Singapore and aspires to be a standup comedian.