Public speaking

2023

June 2023 - LeadDev StaffPlus London, “Solving the puzzle of staff+ time management”
March 2023 - QCon London, program committee member, sponsored “Staff+ Engineering in Practice” and “Architectures in 2025” tracks
March 2023 - LeadDev, “How to navigate uncertainty as a senior individual contributor” panel moderator
February 2023 - LeadDev StaffPlus London, review committee

September 2022 - LeadDev, “Building happy and effective data teams” panellist
August 2022 - LeadDev, “Common mistakes new staff engineers make… and how to avoid them” panel moderator
May 2022 - Docker, Invited by the Mental Health Awareness ERG “Q&A with Blanca Garcia Gil - career highlights and tips for managing the ups and downs of working in tech”
May 2022 - QCon Plus, “5 Behaviours to Become an Effective Staff-Plus Engineer”
April 2022 - QCon London, StaffPlus track, “5 Behaviours to Become an Effective Staff-Plus Engineer”
March 2022, DevoxxUK Track review team (tracks: Data & AI, Build & Deploy)
February 2022, LeadDev London review committee
January 2022 - LeadDev panel moderator“Understanding the role of a Principal Engineer”

December 2019, London Java Community, DevoxxUK new speaker academy
September 2019, LeadDev London Meetup, “Getting excited about maintaining legacy systems” (slides)
May 2019, DevoxxUK, Birds of a Feather session facilitator on “Getting Started with Public Speaking”
April 2019, UXDX London, Q&A session

September 2018, Bristol Voxxed Days, co-presented “7 Serverless Recipes for Big Data Architectures”
June 2018, London Serverless Days, co-presented “7 Serverless Recipes for Big Data Architectures”
May 2018, DevoxxUK, co-presented “7 Serverless Recipes for Big Data Architectures”
April 2018, London Java Community, co-presented “7 Serverless Recipes for Big Data Architectures”