From park ranger to teacher to Rails and Ember developer @HotDocOnline. Doing life with @geoffreyd 🏳️🌈
Brisbane, Australia
Joined September 2011
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Back in my uni days I studied Wildlife Science, which didn’t really qualify me to do anything, but it did equip me with endless fascinating animal facts. You think human bodies are weird? Well strap yourselves in for a whole lot of crazy…
The Parks and Rec jokes about people from Indiana hating the library/librarians just went a little too far…
So, any tech conferences with a CFP coming up that have a travel budget? I've got an API integrations talk percolating in my brain (and my notes app) that I'd love to get to finish and present somewhere!
So the fact that almost every rails dev built a ‘Twitter clone’ when they started coding should come in handy right about now, right?
I had the most amazing night last night at the Women in Digital awards, and am so honoured to have been named ‘Technical Leader of the Year’. I feel so lucky to have been selected, and to spend the night with so many incredibly inspirational women! #WIDAwards
ALT Caitlin grins widely in a shiny silver ball gown, holding her award
ALT Caitlin in a shiny silver dress holding her award with her husband Geoffrey in a kilt and suit jacket
ALT Caitlin giving her acceptance speech on stage
It's baaaack! Less than 4 months away, I can't wait!!!
We are extremely excited to announce that RubyConf AU 2023 is back! It will be held on the 16/17th of Feb at the @MCEC
Early bird tix on sale now! 🎟 tinyurl.com/RubyConfAU2023
CFP is open now! 📜 tinyurl.com/RubyCFP
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We are extremely excited to announce that RubyConf AU 2023 is back! It will be held on the 16/17th of Feb at the @MCEC
Early bird tix on sale now! 🎟 tinyurl.com/RubyConfAU2023
CFP is open now! 📜 tinyurl.com/RubyCFP
Amazing getting to follow @Yasmin_Arch ‘s journey to finding the beauty in code! (Hire her!!)
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Next time a CEO asks me to explain technical debt, this is going on the slide…
It’s 2022 and I only just realised that The Full Monty stars Robert Baratheon from GoT and Rumplestiltskin from Once Upon A Time and I don’t really know what to do with this information
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📅Join us this month for a fun and informative session where Mariekie Coetzee shows how easy it is to develop a simplistic game in Blazor.
#WomenWhoCode @AzenixAU
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I can’t rate the folks over at BlackBoxCo highly enough - working with Shannon and Emma the cofounders was my last project before starting at HotDoc and you couldn’t ask for better people to work with. If you like data and 4 day work weeks, don’t miss out :p
Obviously I’m slightly biased about how great @geoffreyd is too, but I liked working with him enough that I married him so it’s got to count for something right? 😅
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Interested in working with me? We’re looking for our next Senior/Lead Developer at BlackBoxCo. Our small, awesome team is solving some interesting big data problems in the AgTech space. Fully remote within Australia/NZ, 4 day work week. Experience in mentoring/RoR/devops a plus.
Had my Airbnb (that we were due to check into tonight for a 2 week stay) cancel on me this morning. Then booked a replacement hotel for the first few nights, which also cancelled on me (they had the wrong checkin times and weren’t going to be open late enough for our 9pm arrival)
Crossing my fingers that the third time’s the charm and I don’t get off my flight in 3 hours to a notification that the third place has cancelled our stay 😓