To celebrate Pride Month, the College of Science is having tea and coffee, a Pride Cake and cupcakes on the ground floor of the O’Brien Centre at 11 am on June 16th. Everyone welcome!
UCD Women@CompSci is a group of students and staff based in the School of Computer Science. Women@CompSci is open to UCD students and staff of all genders and identities who would like to promote equality, diversity, and inclusion. This group is a great opportunity to meet like-minded people and build a community where everyone feels welcome within our School.
Towards this, we run three main acivities: CS Sparks, Buddy Coders and our Weekly Coffee Mornings every Tuesday @ 10.30 am in Room A1.17, School of Computer Science (currently on hold due to the pandemic, but hopefully will resume soon).
If you will like to join us, please scan (or click) the bar code below and you will be added to our mailing list.
You can also follow us @ucdcswomen on Instagram and Twitter
Shauna, after graduating from UCD Computer Science in 2016, completed a Masters in Supply Chain Management at UCD Smurfit in 2017. She has been working in Microsoft since then in a number of different roles both in Finance and Engineering. While working as a Tax and Trade Technology analyst she was the global reporting and analytics lead for Microsoft Trade. She has recently completed a postgraduate in Data Analytics from the National College of Ireland. Having moved to Vancouver in Feb 2020 she moved into a Program Management role in the Microsoft Office organisation on the Engineering Knowledge team.
After graduating, Colin worked at DataCamp in NYC as the 8th employee; by the time he left a year later, they had 55 employees. He returned to Dublin, set up a development agency, scaled it to 7 employees, generating ~$60k per month on average, while getting his MSc. in Artificial Intelligence from The University of Edinburgh. After graduating he lived in Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, and NYC for a while, while thinking about what to do next. Colin is currently CEO of Audyo (
Clare qualified in 2016 and started her career in Deloitte one week after finishing her final exam in Computer Science. She has been working in Deloitte for 4.5 years and is a Senior Consultant acting as a senior tester on her current project. As well as this Clare manages the communications team on her account team of 95 people, organising all events, team briefings and communications on the account.
Annette has been working as a Technology Consultant since graduating in 2016. She initially joined the EY graduate programme, and worked with them in an enterprise architecture role for 3.5 years. Recently she took a new job with Accenture as a Cloud Advisory Consultant.
Romain studied Finance as an undergrad then started working in San Francisco and discovered SQL, Python and HTML/CSS and then decided to move to Ireland to study Computer Science for his master degree at UCD. At the end of the CS master he was applying for many roles in Dublin (this was not the most fun part!). Since graduating from UCD Romain has worked at Looker, a BI company, where he helped clients with SQL and technical questions in their support organization. He has now moved to Google in an engineering role where he helps ensure the product is robust by adding integrations tests, updating production code, fixing bugs…
Conor studied Business and Economics at Trinity College before deciding to complete a Conversion Masters in Computer Science In UCD in order to change career paths. Finishing university in Dublin I worked as a Full-stack software engineer in banking in Murex in Dublin for 2 and a half years. At the start of this year, I moved to Canada to work in a new role in TaskTop focusing on backend Java development. My current role is focused on building new customer features, handling customer issues and mentoring junior engineers. Like all roles, there is a constant need to upskill and improve.
