Tara Z. Manicsic has spent her career using JavaScript on both back-end and front-end to try to help make coding the web a happy place for devs. She is currently working to directly make a few devs' lives better as an Engineering Manager at Netlify. As an international technical speaker and workshop leader, she conveys all she has learned while delivering horrible jokes. Tara is a lifelong student, teacher, and maker (of crafts, IoT projects, tiny humans, and more). She lives in a house down by the river and can't wait to meet you!
Tara Z. Manicsic is a lifelong student, teacher, and maker. She has spent her career using JavaScript on both back-end and front-end to create applications. A Developer Experience Engineer for Netlify, Google Developer Expert, and international technical speaker, she focuses on conveying the codebase she has learned. In her free time she works in her community to educate and learn from other developers. Tara launched the Cincinnati Chapter of Women Who Code and the Cincinnati branch of NodeSchool. Beyond code, Tara still makes things but with solder/clay/wool and hikes any mountain she can get to with her fam Niko, Matthew, and #toshmagosh.
Processes for the Process-Averse - TechLeadConf 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QATVDJ1HvHY (devReach)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2S5OrMUj9g (ngConf)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhIPaj_Zq9c (donut.js)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njsvP3x_WS0 (WTM Montreal)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KOJDUCD8Ag&t=1330s (tech cafeteria)