Emily Wood

I’d love to say I grew up rewriting backends in my teenage bedroom, or that I spent my youth building websites for fun. In reality, my first exposure to coding came much later- after school, after two degrees, and via a library card and a copy of Python for Dummies (I wish that was a joke).

I came to software engineering after losing my job during the pandemic. Before that, my squiggly career lived up to its name. I did everything from teaching ESL in Asia, to working as a receptionist for a non-profit, and eventually moving into film and TV production which felt like I'd found THE THING for me...until the Pandemic hit and that all came to a grinding halt.

I may have come to tech later than most, but I've made up for it since! In the last 5 years I’ve worked on modernising legacy systems in telecoms, building graphics through code for live TV, and developing SaaS platforms and internal tools in advertising.

What ties all of that together, though, is that I like solving messy problems, working with people, and operating in environments where things move quickly and communication is understood to be AS important as the code!