She has 16 years of software engineering experience, but in the last ten years she has also spent time as a full time novelist and a secondary school maths teacher. She loves coding, teaching, writing and mentoring, but she had trouble persuading stroppy teenagers that maths is fun. She has a tendency to get over-excited about TDD, pair coding, maths, women in tech, music, symmetry, word games and floccinaucinihilipilification.