Who am I? And how did I get here???

Come join our me, the new Sydney Cloud Advocate, as I tells you about my journey to joining the Microsoft Regional Cloud Advocate team!

Learn the secret reason I applied to Microsoft, even though I hadn't planned for a career in the mythical "Big Tech" world, and hear how I was able to land this role in the Cloud and AI team without any Azure experience!

I'll take you through a few easy steps I took to dip my toe in Azure before my job interview, give you an update on how that panned out now that I’m on the team, and tell you why any good job is about more than your tech stack experience.

About Me
I am the Regional Cloud Advocate for Sydney, and am passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together.

I’m a self-proclaimed "Jane of all trades", and have worked in government doing ML and Python backend, full-stack in the ed-tech start-up sector, and I dabble with embedded tech. I’m a keen women in tech advocate, and spends my spare time leading the Girls' Programming Network to support women and girls to realise their potential as techies, and started a business to help bring exciting coding opportunities to kids and teachers.

Beside teaching and tech I loves swing dancing, cats, and having a ridiculous number of plants.