Being Miss Geeky - WIT

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Being Miss Geeky

MELINDA SECKINGTON

@MSECKINGTON

Coding

Blogging

Speaking

Event Organising

To pioneer the best learning experiences for everyone, everywhere

I get to build awesome stuff that people actually use

Ruby Developer

FutureLearn Blog

FutureLearn Talks

FutureLearn Hackdays

How did I get here?

Visual effects for movies

Computer Science

Imposter Syndrome

I don’t belong here.

I’m not good enough.

Other people know more than I do.

I should know everything.

I can’t admit I don’t know.

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Facial Expression Recognition

Moved to London

Finally graduated

What happened in between?

Miss Geeky

People are interested in what I write.

Miss Geeky is my brand, my reputation.

It’s okay to like girly stuff.

Events

BarCamps HackDays

GeekDinners

Event Organising

Geeks of London

BarCamp London 7 HackCamp London BarCamp London 8

LinkedGov Data HackCamp Encampment

BarCamp London 9 BarCamp Berkshire

env[:hack] BarCamp Berkshire 2

Hacked at the O2 BarCamp London 10

People are interested in what I say.

HackDays

Finally graduated

EmberAds

FutureLearn

You don’t need to be

the best at something

to solve a problem.

Good developers

know when to

ask for help.

Being a good

developer means

constantly learning.

We’re all mad here.imposters

Any questions?

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