Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

My career in tech

Avatar for Melinda Seckington Melinda Seckington
March 03, 2020
Technology
1
110

My career in tech

Avatar for Melinda Seckington

Melinda Seckington

March 03, 2020
Tweet

More Decks by Melinda Seckington

See All by Melinda Seckington
The Art of Story Design
Avatar for Melinda Seckington mseckington
0
10
Developing Resilience
Avatar for Melinda Seckington mseckington
0
9
Refactor Yourself!
Avatar for Melinda Seckington mseckington
0
10
Level Up: Developing Developers
Avatar for Melinda Seckington mseckington
3
1.5k
The Art of Talk Design
Avatar for Melinda Seckington mseckington
1
420
Goal-setting workshops for managers
Avatar for Melinda Seckington mseckington
3
1.1k
The Art of Slide Design
Avatar for Melinda Seckington mseckington
32
15k
The Marvel Guide For Developers
Avatar for Melinda Seckington mseckington
0
510
Reflect & Refactor
Avatar for Melinda Seckington mseckington
1
330

Other Decks in Technology

See All in Technology
CIでのgolangci-lintの実行を約90%削減した話
Avatar for KazukiHayase kazukihayase
0
340
Claude Code どこまでも/ Claude Code Everywhere
Avatar for nwiizo nwiizo
53
32k
Snowflake Summit 2025全体振り返り / Snowflake Summit 2025 Overall Review
Avatar for k.muguruma mtpooh
2
200
Amazon ECS & AWS Fargate 運用アーキテクチャ2025 / Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate Ops Architecture 2025
Avatar for iselegant iselegant
13
4.4k
知識を整理して未来を作る 〜SKDとAI協業への助走〜
Avatar for yyoosshh yosh1995
0
140
ユーザーのプロフィールデータを活用した推薦精度向上の取り組み
Avatar for Yudai Hayashi yudai00
0
470
AI技術トレンド勉強会 #1 MCPの基礎と実務での応用
Avatar for Nisei Kimura nisei_k
1
240
AIエージェント最前線！ Amazon Bedrock、Amazon Q、そしてMCPを使いこなそう
Avatar for みのるん minorun365
PRO
10
3.9k
OAuth/OpenID Connectで実現するMCPのセキュアなアクセス管理
Avatar for kura kuralab
5
850
Prox Industries株式会社 会社紹介資料
Avatar for Prox proxindustries
0
200
新卒3年目の後悔 〜機械学習モデルジョブの運用を頑張った話〜
Avatar for camay kameitomohiro
0
370
Observability infrastructure behind the trillion-messages scale Kafka platform
Avatar for LINEヤフーTech (LY Corporation Tech) lycorptech_jp
PRO
0
130

Featured

See All Featured
10 Git Anti Patterns You Should be Aware of
Avatar for Lemi Orhan Ergin lemiorhan
PRO
657
60k
Faster Mobile Websites
Avatar for Dean Hume deanohume
307
31k
Git: the NoSQL Database
Avatar for Brandon Keepers bkeepers
PRO
430
65k
Reflections from 52 weeks, 52 projects
Avatar for Jefferson Lam jeffersonlam
351
20k
Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design
Avatar for Aarron Walter aarron
273
40k
Balancing Empowerment & Direction
Avatar for Lara Hogan lara
1
340
Code Reviewing Like a Champion
Avatar for maltzj maltzj
524
40k
How STYLIGHT went responsive
Avatar for nonsquared nonsquared
100
5.6k
Building a Scalable Design System with Sketch
Avatar for Laura Van Doore lauravandoore
462
33k
No one is an island. Learnings from fostering a developers community.
Avatar for Antonio thoeni
21
3.3k
A Modern Web Designer's Workflow
Avatar for Chris Coyier chriscoyier
693
190k
Side Projects
Avatar for Sacha Greif sachag
455
42k

Transcript

  1. Melinda Seckington My career in Tech

  2. 2002 Computer Science

  3. Imposter syndrome

  4. EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION

  5. 2004-2005 Ed-me

  6. 2006 FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION

  7. 2007 Moved to London

  8. 2007 started going to hackdays started going to barcamps started

    my blog miss geeky started going to MEETUPS

  9. 2007 - 2011 started winning hackdays started organising barcamps being

    invited to Press events started organising A MEETUP

  10. 2007 - 2011 started winning hackdays started organising barcamps being

    invited to Press events started organising A MEETUP

  11. 2007 - 2011 started winning hackdays started organising barcamps being

    invited to Press events started organising A MEETUP

  12. 2007 - 2011 started winning hackdays started organising barcamps writing

    for movie blogs started organising A MEETUP

  13. Early 2011 Focus!

  14. Late 2011 Finally graduated!

  15. Late 2011 Finally graduated!

  16. 2012 EmberAds

  17. 2013 FutureLearn

  18. None

  19. Imposter syndrome?

  20. 2014 Evangelism Lead

  21. None

  22. 2014 First Conference Talk

  23. 2015 Became a Line Manager

  24. Software Engineer Line Manager Evangelism Lead

  25. 2017 Became an Engineering Manager

  26. Creating the internal developer experience

  27. None