PyLadies London

Please join us for a fantastic post-summer PyLadies London meetup in collaboration with Funding Circle.

📝 Agenda:
• 6:30pm Doors open, socialising, food and drinks offered by our sponsor
• 7:00pm Talk 1: Outside Technology: Building bridges between engineers and non-engineers
• 7:30pm Talk 2: Rapid prototyping with Django
• 8:00pm More socialising
• 8:30pm Fin

Talk 1, Naomi Christie: Outside Technology: Building bridges between engineers and non-engineers

Abstract: Naomi's will take you on a journey from her previous career outside technology to her current career as a software engineer highlighting some of the (many) things she had to learn along the way, providing insight into why misunderstandings are common between engineers and their stakeholders and offering some ideas on how we can bridge that gap.

Speaker bio: Naomi Christie is a software engineer at Funding Circle. She's a career changer, having begun her career as a business journalist. She mostly codes in Ruby on Rails, and previously worked in Python. She loves applying her investigative skills to her work as a programmer to make sure stakeholders get the results they really need.

Talk 2, Nina Menezes: Rapid prototyping with Django

Abstract: In the Incubator for Automation and Innovation (i.AI) in the Cabinet Office we work on prime ministerial priority projects, and projects to make the Civil Service more efficient internally.
We produce high-quality, production-ready apps rapidly. In this talk I'll give a brief introduction to Django, and what we've learnt about developing projects at pace.

Speaker bio: Nina has a background in mathematics, and has been a civil servant for 10 years in a variety of roles. In this time she has been an operational research analyst, data scientist and software developer, all roles involving problem solving (and the most fun roles involving coding). She is currently working as a software developer in i.AI in the Cabinet Office, predominantly using Python and Django.