Speaker

Jade Edward

A theatre kid that fell into software engineering via the unlikely pathways of cutting her keyboard chops on the OG Microbees, tinkering with tables and iframes in GeoCities, and filming and editing drama and dance films throughout her partially home-schooled formative years, Jade has been earning money by writing code since 2007. Jade is passionate about the why and the details of what she builds, and while this sometimes can result in interesting side-quests, it often serves her well in complex feature builds, bug-hunting, and troubleshooting. Primarily a back-end developer, PHP and Laravel are her current bread and butter tools, building a mission critical hospitality ordering platform with FoodByUs in Sydney. Jade enjoys learning and sharing knowledge and connections at tech meetups and conferences, and does not need to be asked twice to sing at karaoke.