Speaker Profile: Adrienne Lowe (@adriennefriend)
Adrienne Lowe is a former personal chef from Atlanta who documents her experience learning Python & teaching others to cook at Coding With Knives“Coding with Knives”). Her project marries her lifelong passion for culinary arts with her experience with programming and open source software. She has given talks at PyTennessee, DjangoCon Europe, DjangoCon US, PyCon, ELAConf, and her local Python user groups PyATL and PyLadiesATL, which she co-organizes. She is the organizer of Django Girls Atlanta. Adrienne works as Director of Advancement for the Django Software Foundation and is the Chair of Corporate Sponsorship for Write the Docs Conferences. She is the tech editor for the second edition of O'Reilly’s Head First Python. Adrienne works as a Software Engineer at Emma, Inc.
Adrienne will be presenting “From Support to Engineering: Bridging the gap and growing together” at 11:00AM Saturday (2/4) in the Room 100. How to land your first engineering job when you’re self-taught is one of the biggest mysteries in tech, but it doesn’t have to be. Let’s explore an option that’s not often discussed, but that has great success: starting in customer support! Learn how the experience of providing technical support & training helps aspiring engineers develop powerful empathy, communication, & troubleshooting skills.
Sponsor Profile: Meeple Mountain (@meeplemountain)
The coordinators of your PyTN Saturday night gaming party! Meeple Mountain delivers board game reviews, board game news, editorial content and other articles relating to tabletop board games that are fun for adults and children alike. We also host a monthly board game night in Nashville with nearly 80 attendees.