Lorraine Steyn(she/her)
Simplifier-in-chief - driven to find better ways of producing code, and then teaching the next generation of developers all our hard-won lessons!
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Lorraine founded the software development company Khanyisa Real Systems (KRS) in 1987. The company now employs around 80 technical staff, and has delivered large bespoke projects for hundreds of clients. Lorraine is a hands-on CEO who spends 3-4 days a week working on production code with her teams, mentoring, assisting with design, and driving quality and learning especially in better ways of using AI for software development.
Lorraine has presented on such varied topics as Domain-Driven-Design, compassionate leadership, clean code and refactoring, women in tech, and many Agile topics dear to her heart (often based in XP practices).