Speaker - Leesa Ward

Leesa wears many hats: she is a web/software dev daily, graphic designer intermittently, teacher sessionally, and "professional" student habitually. She has been a freelancer for over 15 years alongside 10 years of agency web dev work and 4 (so far) in enterprise software engineering, with some sessional teaching scattered in there to keep her on her toes. She has broad experience across JavaScript and PHP stacks as well as dabbling in other languages in educational settings. Her hobbies include using code to work out which TV show to watch next, being the middle of the Venn diagram by writing scripts for Adobe InDesign projects, and defending PHP on The Internet even though it's React that's currently paying her bills.