Portfolio

I’m available for public speaking, teaching, and podcast appearances on tech & non-alc topics – please get in touch via email.

Talks, workshops, writing – Tech

Here’s a selection of content I’ve created in recent years, along with links to recordings or slides, where available.

• LinkedIn Learning Online Course: Data Quality Testing with Great Expectations, 2026
• LinkedIn Learning Online Course: PySpark Essential Training: Introduction to Building Data Pipelines, 2025
• Podcast: Decompose.IO – Modern Data Stack (German), 2022
• “The Wonderful World of Data Quality in Python”
  • Data Umbrella 2021 (demo repository and slides)
• Podcast: “Catalog & Cocktails” – Do you test your data? data.world podcast, 2021
• “Building a robust data pipeline with dbt, Airflow, and Great Expectations
  • dbt Coalesce conference 2020 (recording)
  • PyLadies Berlin 2021 (recording)
  • ODSC East 2021 (updated demo repository and slides)
• “Learn to Bash!” and “Introduction to Terminal” Women Who Code workshop 2019 (initial version of the demo repository)
  • PyLadies SWFL 2021 (updated demo repository)
• “Data testing and documentation with Great Expectations”
  • Python Users Berlin 2020 (slides)
• “Your one-stop data shop – An intro to foreign data wrappers in Postgres”
  • PostgresOpen 2019 (slides)
• “Messy Data and Reluctant Users – The Trouble with Healthcare Data”
  • Infiniteconf 2019 (slides)
  • DataCouncil NYC 2019 (recording)
• Introduction to healthcare data analysis with Pandas
  • PyLadies Remote workshop 2019 (recording)
  • Women Who Code NYC workshop 2019 (slides)
• Power To Fly Lunch & Learn: Getting The Most From Your Data, Ask A Data Insights Engineer 2018
• “Inspiring the next generation of Girl Geeks”, TEDx Huddersfield 2013
• Podcast: Sam & Nathan Rae talk about Manchester Girl Geeks, Northology podcast 2013
• Keynote talk, Hack to the Future 2012
• “Girls can love computing; someone just needs to show them how”, Guardian blog 2012
• Various academic conference and workshop papers and talks in the Description Logic and Semantic Web community, DBLP bibliography profile 2010-2014

Talks, workshops, writing – Non-alc

• “Bright Nights, Big City: My Substack covers all things non-alc and sober-friendly events in NYC
• I taught a Non-Alc Spirits 101 seminar for the United States Bartender’s Guild
• A full list of my media appearances can be found on the Bright Nights Social press page.

Creative side quests

• In 2022, I launched a series of non-alcoholic bar pop-up events in NYC called “Third Place Bar” (now Bright Nights Social).
• In 2021, I started the “Blog Cast” podcast, a podcast that features my favorite tech blog posts, read out loud (so you can listen while going for a walk, doing chores…): https://anchor.fm/blog-cast
• I hacked together the little Color Palette Bot, just because I really love generative art Twitter bots, and wanted to write some JavaScript: https://twitter.com/ColPaletteBot (now offline due to API changes).
• A bunch of my friends contributed to “Quaranzine”, a multi-media zine I put together on Thanksgiving 2020 while many of us were home alone during the pandemic: https://quaranzine.glitch.me/
• I taught myself how to use GarageBand and wrote and recorded a few quarantine inspired cover songs while being home alone during the lockdown in 2020: “iso trap” – A quarantine inspired cover album