Svetlana is a Senior Software developer at ThoughtWorks. She has been enjoying writing code in many languages for over 10 years. Her favourite thing do it is to learn new or old mind-bending techs and talk about them with anyone who is willing to listen. She started to explore functional programming with Haskell and Scala a few years ago. It inspired her to promote the usage of functional programming in a traditional non-fp languages such as JavaScript, Java and Ruby. Svetlana has been involved in a number of community events in Sydney, running the workshops or mentoring, including Women Who Code, Rails Girls, ClojureBridge and Girls Programming Network.