Virtual - Landing Your First Developer Job Panel
Thu, 28th May | 18:00 - 20:00 BST (GMT+01:00)

This virtual Landing Your First Developer Job panel is dedicated to helping you get your first job in tech. We have 5 people on the panel who all got their first developer job less than a year ago to answer all your questions. There will be opportunities for audience questions so please do come along with some. Our panelists on the night will be:

- Daniella Skinner - Daniella is a recent graduate from the Mayden Academy coding bootcamp, following a career change into tech from working as a Speech and Language Therapist in the NHS. She has just started her first developer job at a health tech company called Mayden.
- Mirabela Dan - Following a career in finance, Mira has decided to pivot into tech and is now an associate developer specialising in cloud at Booking.com
- Aatif Syed - Aatif left his medical degree to pursue an interest in technology, and is now a C developer at Metaswitch
- Abi Summers - Abi is a full stack developer at Virtuo, a car rental company. She decided to start a career in tech and enrolled in a web development bootcamp after au pairing for three years
- Dagmara Kukla - Dagmara is a web developer at Students’ Union UCL, previously a tech recruiter and a programme manager in the charity sector.

And your MC for the evening will be Kimberley Cook

On the morning of the event you will receive an email with the Zoom details.

This event has already occurred.

Venue

Simply Business

99 Gresham Street
London, EC2V 7NG
Latitude: 51.515088
Longitude: -0.090478

Accessibility information:

Fully wheelchair accessible

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Schedule

18:00 - Zoom chat will be open
18:15 - Panel starts
20:00 - Panel finishes

Sponsors

A big thanks to all of our sponsors for making the event possible!

Simply Business

Organisers

Kimberley Cook (She/Her)

Kimberley Cook (She/Her)

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