The 11ty-website from mangamaui

Short intro

👩‍⚖️ Chairwoman @fronteers && event organiser @fronteersbe

💁‍♀️ Community founder & manager @womendotcodebe

👩‍🏫 Community lead @BeCode

👩‍💻 Front-end Designer (A11Y, UX & UI design, static websites, sustainable design & development)

🎮 Anime, board & video game enthusiast 🤓 overall geek 👩🏻‍🎤

😻 Loving cats, 🍹 Tiki bars, 🌳 Forests

🌱 Part of the movement to increase Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility and Sustainability in tech

Long intro

Hi there 👋!
I am Claudia, a hearing impaired (🦻) community builder and founder, who wants to make the tech industry more accessible and inclusive. The last five years I have been building women.code(be), a supportive network for women who code and who are living in Belgium.

I started my own career as a PHP developer, but quickly moved to front-end development, from I transitioned in to the role of technical product manager and later on I switched back to front-end development and design (UX & UI) It is mostly thanks to my versatile experience in tech that I have been able to grow women.code(be) into the community that it is today.

Since 2023, I am also the chairwoman of Fronteers, a Dutch organisation and community who are commited to professionalise the role of front-end developers.

Occassionally, you might also run into me at a Fronteers meetup , as I am currently the main organiser Fronteers Belgium. I still love being actively involved in the local front-end community, even though I am currently more of a hobby developer. 😊

During the (work)day however, it is more likely that you'll find me representing BeCode - a Belgian coding school with 4 different campuses across Belgium - as community lead. Here I spent most of my time building out a community to support the BeCode alumni, one step at a time. The first project I had the privilege to launch since I started as community lead, is a Women Mentoring Program.