Speaker: Mazda Hewitt

My career in one sentence...
I have worked from the front-office to the back office, business aligned to engineering aligned, but always with a deep technical focus.

Ask me about...
Software engineering excellence, Quality Assurance best practice, agile and collaborative software delivery.

My favorite technology is...
Simple, modular, testable, object oriented with functional characteristics and most definitely constantly evolving.

I am passionate about technology because...
It solves real problems while creatively challenging my brain.

My most difficult engineering challenge was...
How to get eight Scrum teams to work on the same code base without breaking each other’s code.

I am most proud of...
Delivering a Business Process Outsourcing Project for Tax, where I built a new team, a new application and a continuous delivery pipeline in nine months to usable MVP in production.

Something you will not see on my CV...
I love to cook – it harnesses a combination of geeky processes and creativity with instant feedback from the biggest critics in the world: My family.