EXPERIENCE

06/2024 — Present

Head of Community Platforms, Vercel

Leading a team of DX engineers in community, our mission is to build a generation of Vercel experts.

07/2021 — 05/2024

Head of Community, Gitpod

Led Gitpod's community team, managed community engineers, built the Gitpod community from zero, and organised various successful community-building initiatives and events.

01/2021 — 07/2021

Platform Engineer, Sky Betting & Gaming

Developed automation scripts, managed production applications, scaled infrastructure, and enhanced resilience using technologies like Kubernetes, AWS, and Docker.

07/2020 — 12/2020

Site Reliability Engineer, BT

Established cloud standards, and implemented initiatives to enhance system reliability, security, and cost efficiency.

09/2018 — 07/2020

Digital Engineering Graduate, BT

A two-year rotational program across the engineering organisation (architecture, software, platform and site reliability engineering)

PROJECTS

2023 — 2024

Gitpod Community meet-up network

Built a global network of 15 meet-ups with 350 attendees and 600 members, including partnerships with AWS for three events.

2023

Cloud Development Environment (CDE) Universe

Organized and led the first in-person conference in San Francisco for 120 attendees, managing all aspects including logistics, marketing, and serving as the MC.

2021 — 2024

Gitpod Community Heroes

Developed and launched an ambassador program to recognize and reward active contributors in the Gitpod community, successfully onboarding 35 Heroes globally.

2021 — 2024

Gitpod Screencasts

Produced educational screencasts showcasing best practices and advanced features of Gitpod, resulting in a 33-video playlist that attracted over 15,000 views.

2021 — 2024

Gitpod Community

Built the community from zero to 40K developers, ensuring a vibrant and supportive environment for users.

COMMUNITIES

2016 — 2021

Lead Instructor, Code First Girls

2021

Founder, Ladies in DevOps

2017 — 2018

Community Organiser, MedTech Sheffield

EDUCATION

2014 — 2018

Biomedical Sciences with Employment Experience, The University of Sheffield

WORKFLOW

Skills

  • community building
  • leadership
  • team building
  • problem solving
  • developer relations
  • public speaking
  • content creation
  • event planning
  • project management

Tools

  • discord
  • discourse
  • figma
  • github
  • linear
  • notion
  • slack
  • wordpress
  • vercel
  • claude
  • v0

Technology

  • aws
  • css
  • docker
  • kubernetes
  • javascript
  • react
  • python
  • nextjs
  • ai

CERTIFICATIONS

12/2021

Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate, Linux Foundation

12/2020

Solutions Architect Associate, Amazon Web Services

11/2019

Certified Cloud Practitioner, Amazon Web Services