The most common response we hear to the complaint that “All the Speakers at the Conference are men!” or “All the Award Nominees are male.” is that there were “No known female candidates”.

It is our mission to solve that problem by highlighting all of the marvellous talent the Tech Industry has outside of the default.

It is our mission to solve that problem by highlighting all of the marvellous talent the Tech Industry has outside of the default.

Mandy Michael

Front End Developer, Manager, Speaker and Writer

Perth, Western Australia

Bio

Mandy is a community organiser, speaker, and developer working as a Development Manager at Seven West Media in Western Australia. She is a co-organiser and Director of Mixin Conf, and the founder and co-organiser of Fenders, a local meetup for front end developers providing events, mentoring and support to the Perth web community.

Mandy’s passion is CSS, HTML and JS and hopes to inspire that passion in others. She loves the supportive and collaborative nature of the web and strives to encourage this environment through the community groups she is a part of. Her aim is to create a community of web developers who can share, mentor, learn and grow together.

Mentoring

Ultimately Mandy believes the best way to contribute to the web is by helping and supporting others. Through Fenders Mandy provides opportunities, mentoring, guidance and support to help people with their technical skills, career progression, public speaking and wellbeing. She has been involved in organising and mentoring at events including Perth{Web}Girls.

Speaker Experience

30 Apr 2019

The Forgotten Power of Semantic HTML

Smashing TV

02 Apr 2019

Performance Benefits of Variable Fonts

PerfMatters, California

08 Nov 2018

Variable Fonts and the Future of Web Design

Web Directions Summit, Sydney

04 Aug 2018

Semantic HTML

DDDPerth

02 Aug 2018

Semantic HTML

Web Directions Code, Melbourne

26 May 2018

Becoming a Front End Developer

Bankwest Code Orange

23 Mar 2018

Workshop: Creative Text Effects with CSS

Decompress

18 Feb 2018

Panel: How important are Role Models for women in STEM?

WiTWA

03 Aug 2017

Traditional CSS at Scale

Web Directions Code

20 Jun 2017

My Journey into Tech

Code Like a Girl Melbourne

21 Jun 2016

Google I/O Conference Download

Fenders

28 Jun 2015

Animating SVG

Fenders

14 May 2015

Introduction to Web Performance

Fenders

28 Nov 2008

The Freedom and Constraints of Virtual Design

Australasian Virtual Worlds Workshop