About Vanessa
With a career in technology spanning 20 years, Vanessa is a Principal of Automation and Tools at BHP. From Developer to SysOps, through to Support and DevOps Wrangler, her journey has been transformational. While giving a conference talk to 500+ attendees, Vanessa’s Jimmy Choo stilettos went through a gap in the stage and she nearly fell. This is just one of the lessons learnt while speaking as a woman over the last 5 years. Her current ambition is to encourage more women into the speaker circuit by causing shenanigans at a local developer conference and running free workshops for women in STEM in Brisbane. She is just an introverted nerd like you, covered in dog hair, but now in lower heels.
Upcoming Talks
Want to see me talk at your event? Get in touch with me! @fly401
Previous Talks
2015
- DevOps Brisbane Jun 4 2015 What developers and ops people should know preparing for a DevOps world
2016
- Women Who Code Brisbane May 25 2016 Supporting your software users
- DDD Brisbane 0x6 Dec 4 2016 How Blizzard turned a regular shit show into an amazing user experience: The Legion Launch
2017
- Game Developers Brisbane April 9 2017 Small fractions of time in game play can matter; Blizzard's expansion launches - Video
- DevOps Wellington August 9 2017 What support keeps from you
- ScaleConfNZ August 10 2017 Planning your automation from scratch, what not to bring from your Word document!
- NDC Sydney August 17 2017 How success can take you to the brink of failure: a case study - Video
- DDD Brisbane 0x7 Dec 2 2017 Zen and the art of automated gardening - Video
2018
- .NET Brisbane Jun 19 2018 DevOps at Enterprise
- Women Who Code BNE Jul 25 2018 I stopped throwing women under the bus
- CTO School BNE Aug 2 2018 Goats and Sherpas
- NDC Sydney Sep 19 2018 Selling DevOps - Video
- Women Who Code Brisbane Oct 31 2018 Speaker Training for the intimidated
- DDD Brisbane 0x8 Dec 1 2018 I ain't afraid of no Terminator
- Global AI Bootcamp Brisbane Dec 15 2018 I ain't afraid of no Terminator
2019
- Brisbane LGBT+ and Allies in Tech Jan 23 2019 I ain't afraid of no Terminator
- BrisJS Mar 4 2019 The Language of Adoption
- Women Who Code BNE Apr 27 2019 MC @ New voices in Brisbane Tech
- Hopper Down Under July 29/31 2019 Speak to fast track your career progression!
- MusesCodeJS Sept 7 2019 Career Panel Member
- #WomenITPros APAC Sept 26 2019 Public Speaking
- BAM Conf Nov 20 2019 You Shouldn't Automate That!
2020
- Brisbane API and Microservices Meetup Jan 15 2020 You Shouldn't Automate That!