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My career in tech

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March 03, 2020
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My career in tech

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Transcript

  1. Melinda Seckington My career in Tech

  2. 2002 Computer Science

  3. Imposter syndrome

  4. EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION

  5. 2004-2005 Ed-me

  6. 2006 FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION

  7. 2007 Moved to London

  8. 2007 started going to hackdays started going to barcamps started

    my blog miss geeky started going to MEETUPS

  9. 2007 - 2011 started winning hackdays started organising barcamps being

    invited to Press events started organising A MEETUP

  10. 2007 - 2011 started winning hackdays started organising barcamps being

    invited to Press events started organising A MEETUP

  11. 2007 - 2011 started winning hackdays started organising barcamps being

    invited to Press events started organising A MEETUP

  12. 2007 - 2011 started winning hackdays started organising barcamps writing

    for movie blogs started organising A MEETUP

  13. Early 2011 Focus!

  14. Late 2011 Finally graduated!

  15. Late 2011 Finally graduated!

  16. 2012 EmberAds

  17. 2013 FutureLearn

  18. None

  19. Imposter syndrome?

  20. 2014 Evangelism Lead

  21. None

  22. 2014 First Conference Talk

  23. 2015 Became a Line Manager

  24. Software Engineer Line Manager Evangelism Lead

  25. 2017 Became an Engineering Manager

  26. Creating the internal developer experience

  27. None