Involvement
Local Development Community Events
- Prior to the pandemic, I would actively seek out tech events, hackathons, and other meetups where I could give back to the community, and as I transition back into the industry, I would like to do that again.
- I enjoyed tech meetups with such groups as Women in Tech Cape Town, Kat-O (electronics), PythonSA, and Codebridge as well as the monthly Make Games SA meetups.
- I'm always on the lookout for new and interesting tech events to participate in, such as ScaleConf, DevConf and BSides, and participating in a Make event on Root’s insurance and programmable bank account APIs.
- Some other hackathons and game jams I have participated in include the Santam IOT Safety Hackathon, Unearthed Mining Hackathon and the Global Game Jams, Amaze Johannesburg, Super Friendship Arcade, SA Game Jam events, and others.
Contributing To Local Causes
- I feel it is important to support the community as a developer, to help bridge the gap experienced by many people not privileged to be afforded the same access to opportunity - with WhereIsMyTransport I've volunteered developer support through our Public Transport API at a hackathon co-hosted with Women In Tech in 2017.
- In 2016/2017 I volunteered in several events as a code coach, speaker, and mentor at Code4CT, an organisation that teaches underprivileged girls to code, both on behalf of WhereIsMyTransport and also later in my personal capacity, as I have a strong passion for increasing diversity in the software, tech, and games industries.
- I was also invited to speak on a panel at Life Choices, an event aimed more generally at helping people in other industries transition into software careers.
- When I had the time I was involved in Tech-for-Good and Coding Soup, a biweekly initiative by the non-profit Codebridge centred around making community data more widely available to the public. I also became involved in ColorCode - a biweekly meetup that encourages collaboration, supporting new developers and those keen to pivot in their coding careers.
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