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Vanessa Turney

Technical Principal @ Thoughtworks 

Technical Consultant with 20 yrs commercial, software engineering and strategy execution experience. 

A passion for:

- Technical thought leadership & leading with Integrity

- Enabling and empowering organisations to adapt to change via socio-technical evolution 

- O'Reilly instructor and evangelist of strategic Domain Driven Design

- Evolvable Enterprise & Data architectures 

- Intelligence & Data Platforms

2017 DevelopHER Tech Star Finalist.

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General Architecture | Senior Leadership in Tech | Business / Enterprise Architecture | Software Architecture | Data Architecture | Solution Architecture | Application Architecture | Integration Architecture | Cloud Architecture 

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Shana Dacres

Senior Architect

Ex-developer, seasoned and passionate Senior Architect. 

With over 12+ years of industry experience and a background in software development, I apply my expertise to new environments, architectures and technologies. I have an extensive history of delivering complex and high-quality consulting and Architecture work within the public and private sectors in a variety of roles including Security/IAM Architect, Solution Architect and Integration Architect.


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General Architecture | Senior Leadership in Tech | ArchitectHer | Solution Architecture | Security Architecture | Application Architecture | Integration Architecture | Cloud Architecture | Software Architecture

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Logi Subramaniam

Senior Solution Architect, Capgemini

Microsoft Certified Azure solution architect expert with 18+ years of IT experience.

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General Architecture | Senior Leadership in Tech | Solution Architecture | Application Architecture | Integration Architecture | Cloud Architecture | Software Architecture | Azure | Microsoft 365 | Power platform

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Rachel Lunn

Former Technology Director 

Senior management technology leader driven with integrity and by a growth mindset. Leading on areas of organisational change and transition having held roles throughout periods of intense change inclusive of M&A and geopolitical uncertainties. Lead high performing global teams within strategy & architecture and shared technology.

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General Architecture | Senior Leadership in Tech | ArchitectHer

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Software Architect @ Devsu

Master of Science in Software Engineering with a solid background in software development and IT architecture. Four years of development experience as a senior developer and ten years designing and implementing software as an IT architect for the software industry. PMP (Project Manager Professional) certified by the Project Management Institute, SCRUM Professional certified, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Certified, DevSecOps Certified and Associate Google Cloud Engineer Certified.

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Software Architecture | Solution Architecture | Application Architecture | Integration Architecture | GCP | AWS 

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Yashada Jadhav 

Lead Enterprise Architect

Over 23 years of experience in banking and over 15 years of experience in Enterprise, Business  and solution architecture in major banks in UK. 

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Getting into Architecture | Senior Leadership in Tech | Business | Enterprise Architecture | Solution Architecture | Application Architecture | Integration Architecture | Financial Services | Payments

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Akzharkyn Duisembiyeva 

Senior Security Engineer 

I am a security architect and engineer with a software development background. Besides my work, I promote cybersecurity career among women as a board member of Women4Cyber Sweden and organise HackTheBox meetups in Stockholm, where people get together to learn new offensive security skills. 

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Security Architecture | My previous experience includes application security, ethical hacking, software engineering and security architecture. As a security architect, I ensure that products comply with security requirements by performing security architecture and design assessments, code reviews and threat modelling.

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Sarah Usher

Staff Data Engineer - Pleo

Sarah has worked across multiple domains and types of systems, primarily helping companies scale their data processing and accessibility. Her work includes architecting and building scalable ingestion which increased capacity by 110%, with a further ability to increase that another 100% through simply configuration changes, creating new pipelines and a warehouse from scratch while teaching a team of software engineers about data systems, guided multiple designs for creating accessible sources of truth for data-driven features and analytics and is a experienced mentor, working with over 40 people which helped them get jobs, promotions, and improve their confidence in their technical skills.

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General Architecture | Senior Leadership in Tech | ArchitectHer | Solution Architecture | Application Architecture | Integration Architecture | Cloud Architecture | Software Architecture | Data Engineering | Backend Engineering | System Design/Architecture