Supporting and raising the visibility of women in technology, entrepreneurship and innovation through monthly events, leadership programmes, and much more.
An engineer, a startup founder and a major figure in the open source communities improving diversity and inclusive culture. She received a O’Reilly Open Source Award, for her outreach work in the Python community.
One of the most visible women in the tech community—not just because of her talent as a software engineer, but also because she’s an outspoken critic on the subject of tech’s terrible lack of diversity.
Author and illustrator of Hello Ruby, a children’s book about the whimsical world of computers, as well as the founder of Rails Girls, a global movement to teach young women programming in more than 220 cities.
Facebook’s First Female Engineer. She believes in letting go of preconceived notions of how things should be done and who should do them. She believes in tackling problems with creativity and an open mind.
As lead engineer of the Google Wallet iOS app, Laura is the missing link that lies at the crossroads between programmers, writers, artists and users.