Public Speaking
Contact me
Need speakers for your conference? I check off several diversity boxes, and I also happen to know what I’m talking about! Best way to reach out is to message me on danielleleongphotography.com/contact
Online safety
Bloomberg Distinguished Engineering Speaker series - Consensual software: Prioritizing user trust and safety
InfoQ track host - Socially Conscious Software
Affect conf - Consensual software: Prioritizing user trust and safety
O’Reilly Security Conference - Consensual software: Prioritizing user trust and safety
Woman Tech Makers Madrid - Video
Making Online Collaboration Safer at GitHub
InfoQ - Consensual Software: How to prioritize user safety
DZone - Privacy and Consensual IoT
DZone - DZone’s Guide to IoT: Applications, Protocols, and Best Practices
Management
How to build emotionally intelligent engineering teams
Setting goals with your engineers that don’t totally suck
Feerless in the press
San Francisco Chronicle - Trigger warning: New app warns Netflix viewers of graphic content
MedGadget - Feerless Helps PTSD and Phobia Sufferers Avoid Triggering Moments While Watching Netflix
KOMO News radio spot - New app warns Netflix viewers with PTSD about content that may trigger panic attacks
The Mighty mental health blog - New App Will Make Netflix Binge-Watching Safer for People With PTSD
Tech talks
Demoing Netflix Triggers - a Waze for Netflix to help people with PTSD watch their shows in peace.
Call My Nana is an app I set up that calls my grandmother every day to remind her to take her medication. It’s been running for nearly 3 years now!
Design 101 for Developers: 5 Ways to Make Your Site Less Ugly is a talk I did at Twilio on 5 simple design patterns to implement on websites to make them less terrible.
The Curious Case of the Developer on the Design Team I spoke with my teammate Nina Mehta about the importance of designers and developers working closely together.
Book appearances
I speak out about what it’s like to change careers and join software development in Quit Law and Code: A Guide to Transition from Law to App Development.
Diversity in tech
Lead a LeadDev Together session on Building Inclusive Companies
A very happy birthday to Skittles, @twilio's Diversity & Inclusion team! Can't believe it's been one whole year! pic.twitter.com/bdWHGXbQJY
— Danielle Leong (@tsunamino) June 1, 2015So proud of @twilio for the mention in @techcrunch's article - Prioritizing Diversity In 2015 http://t.co/Cq6xU78DOJ @tsunamino
— Claire Shaw (@cshawshaw) March 2, 2015“And thats when I decided I want to be an engineer.” - hearing from @tsunamino, first female eng at @Twilio. pic.twitter.com/16NyFAs1Pk
— GDI San Francisco (@gdisf) February 25, 2015.@Twilio engineers Dom (@itshella_dom on outreach) &Danielle (@tsunamino on retention) are D&D4diversity #twilioggd14 pic.twitter.com/LuGNZsAhi5
— BayAreaGGD (@BayAreaGGD) December 10, 2014I was on Bay Area Focus speaking about Mission Bit and the importance of volunteering in the tech community.
Talking about diversity today at #bclx with @Itshella_dom! Come join us! pic.twitter.com/PYblye9DoB
— Danielle Leong (@tsunamino) September 28, 2014@tsunamino helping middle school girls get interested in #twilio by taking selfies! pic.twitter.com/3niRsZ0ClG
— Dom DeGuzman (@Itshella_dom) May 28, 2014Pictures from speaking at MLK middle school today! pic.twitter.com/6XKeNX6juY
— Danielle Leong (@tsunamino) May 17, 2014Women in Tech: How I got here and how to survive being in a male-dominated workforce is a talk I did at Mercy High School Burlingame to a group of young women about how they can pursue a career in tech.