🙌Welcome to WWCode 2020! 🎉

Schedule

6pm: Networking, food and drinks
6.20pm: Community announcements
🆕6.30pm: "My Unconventional Journey into Tech" - Toni Sefton
6.45pm: "How scalable databases are built" - Sasha Morrissey

Dinner and drinks provided by ThoughtWorks. Thank you, ThoughtWorks, for your continued support! https://www.thoughtworks.com/

FAQ

Q: I don't identify as female, may I come along?
A: Yes! The more the merrier, as long as you are the guest of a female attendee. Don't know anyone coming along? Bring a female friend or colleague to introduce to the group, we promise you'll have fun! 😄

Talk Info

🆕`tech-speaker init` (~10 minutes)

Title: "My Unconventional Journey into Tech" - Toni Sefton
Summary: I found myself at a crossroads, when I graduated university with a dual bachelor in Social Science and Arts to discover that the roles I wanted were asking for tech skills. In this talk I’ll be sharing my journey from trying to enhance my employability, to becoming a junior software engineer at WORK180 and the lessons learnt from working in a fully-remote company.

Want to get started with speaking? Apply here :) http://bit.ly/women-who-code-brisbane-new-speaker-form

👩‍💻Main speaker (~45 minutes + Q&A)

Title: "How scalable databases are built" - Sasha Morrissey
Summary: Do you use databases in your application? Have you wondered how they work under-the-hood? Sasha will go on a deep dive through database land and explain why we use databases, and some of the crucial problems faced by database developers today. Even if you don’t work with databases directly, having an understanding of the concepts behind databases and how they work will help you become a better application developer, able to improve both performance and correctness on what is often the most critical part of your application.

Speaker Bio: Sasha is currently a lead architect at Slyp, where she is designing systems that can scale to handle every EFTPOS transaction in Australia in real-time. Previously, she’s been an engineering lead at Google, Canva, and others, and always seems to end up in charge of the databases. In her spare time, she runs programs to support underrepresented groups in IT, and teaches her 2-year-old daughter how to play Mario Kart.