Melinda Seckington
Melinda Seckington is a developer, blogger and event organizer. She is currently a developer at FutureLearn, a social learning platform offering free courses from top universities. Melinda is interested in interested in solving complex problems with artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms.
Melinda writes about all things geeky and girly at MissGeeky.com, providing reviews about games, gadgets, movies and other stuff from my point of view.
For the past 6 years She has been highly involved in the London tech community, attending and organizing BarCamps, Hackdays and other tech meetups.
Follow Melinda on twitter @mseckington and check out what she is up to on GitHub.
Talks I've Given
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Reflect & Refactor
Featuring Melinda Seckington
As developers, we’re constantly learning: whether it’s figuring out how to solve new problems and bugs, or focusing on new skills and knowledge to apply to our work. Often when we talk about reflecting and refactoring, it will be about the way we work in our teams or how we can make...
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The Marvel Guide to Developers
Featuring Melinda Seckington
Forget ninja developers and rockstar developers. What I'm more interested in is the superhero developer: these are the developers that do their best to help others, that try to give back to their community, and generally make the world a better place.
So how can we all strive to be superhero...
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Imposter Syndrome: How we act and work together
Featuring Melinda Seckington
Often when we talk about imposter syndrome in developers, we look at what the individual can do to stop it from happening. In this talk, Melinda Seckington looks at what we can do as a team.
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Un-artificial Intelligence: How People Learn
Featuring Melinda Seckington
Most developers are familiar with the basics of AI: how do you make a computer, an algorithm, a system learn something? What most don't realize though is that the same principles are applied to people. This talk looks at the theory behind how people learn, and maps it to real life examples of...
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