Jessica is a Distinguished Architect and Head of Architecture at NewDay, a five times Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, an international speaker and a mentor.
Through her career Jessica has worked at a range of size and complexities of tech companies. A common theme is improving the maintainability and stability of systems; while also ensuring they are compliant and pass the various audits they are subject to. She is passionate about this not only being a technical and design challenge; but also a people and cultural one.
Outside of her day to day, Jessica is passionate about contributing to wider tech communities and outreach, She was an elected member of the .NET Foundations Board of Directors and Chair of the .NET Foundation Membership Committee (2022 - 2023), and still is an active member of the membership committee. She is also the co-organiser and co-founder of DDD East Midlands Conference, and manages the repositories for this event and a meetup.