🌻 Hayley Stewart

She Codes is a startup, based in Perth, that is on a mission to teach women coding skills, get women into technical careers, and build communities of like-minded women. Their vision is to increase diversity in tech by inspiring 100,000 women across Australia by 2025. Plus launched in Perth in 2019 and is a 5 month part time course designed to help women transition into tech careers. In 2019, as Lead Mentor, I taught the first three months of the course where the students learned HTML, CSS, Python and Django, and continued on in a support role for the second half of the course. In 2020 I am the Lead Mentor for all 5 months in Perth, and we are also running the course in Brisbane where I am Lead Mentor for the first 9 weeks. I am also the Content Developer and Coordinator for the course. Flash is a 5 day program designed to give women a taster of several different areas of tech, including Web Development, Python, Flask, Data and Algorithms. I developed the content for each of these topics and was the lead mentor for the first Flash program in 2019.

I worked with experts in a range of different fields, to produce educational content for students, focused on the life skills not taught at school. This role leaned heavily on my experience as an instructional designer, and required excellent organisational and project management skills.

At Firefly I was involved with designing and creating a program for educating software developers on how to use new software in the Financial Services Industry, which involved utilising my Python programming and content development skills.

The Cut is digital agency focused on Python software development. I primary worked as a backend developer using Python and Django.

I worked as Web Developer as part of the Digital team at Seven West Media, where I helped to maintain and develop the websites for The West Australian, PerthNow and 7News. I mostly worked with React, TypeScript and Emotion.

Fastvue helps businesses and schools deliver useful Internet usage reports to HR, Teachers and Department Managers. Their software interprets the messy logs from firewalls and turns it into something meaningful. I worked with Fastvue as a User Experience researcher and conducted a UX study to identify opportunities where improvements could be made to the software interface. This involved conducting an in-depth assessment of the existing interface and interviewing existing clients about their experience with the software and presenting my findings in a report.

Throughout my time at the University of Canterbury I worked on a variety of projects, including Verto, CS Unplugged, CS Field guide and more. Please visit my portfolio site if would like to know more https://www.hayleyavw.com/

I worked part time with Gather Workshops as a presenter and mentor for their workshops. I was involved with delivering workshops on Python, JavaScript, HTML/CSS and Robotics to students and teachers across New Zealand.

In summer 2015/16 I was an intern on the Bandwidth Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) team at Google.To best describe what an SRE does, think about the last time Google went down, can you even think of a time Google was down? Probably not too many memories spring to mind, and that is because SREs are working around the clock to keep everything up and running, and to fix things when something does go wrong. As an intern on Bandwidth SRE, another intern and I partnered to create an internal tool to be used by other SRE teams to check the status of the amount of bandwidth their service (e.g. Maps, Drive, YouTube, etc) in Google is using. The tool proved to be extremely useful and was already being used before they even finished the internship!