Diana is a Principal Engineer and the first hire at Applied, a company focused on radically improving hiring, making it fairer, faster and better. She has been involved of every aspect of the platform; from DevOps & continuous deployment, to shipping integrations with other hiring platforms and being the lead dev on as well as product managing a pilot aimed at radically improving assessment tools for graduate & apprenticeship hiring. (You can read more about Applied at beapplied.com)

She started as a self-taught web developer, has been teaching code with Code First:Girls since 2014, and is currently their Curriculum Lead Instructor for Front-End Web Development. She has also led numerous technical workshops in London, UK, with She++ London (a chapter of She++ that she co-founded in 2016) and their events with companies (such as Monzo and Deliveroo), and with the UCL Technology Society whilst she was in university studying Mathematical Computation at University College London. Diana is extremely passionate about sharing abstract and technical concepts in an empathic way, focusing on enabling understanding over the mere delivery of information.