Candida Haynes

Candida Haynes is a proud liberal arts graduate (Amherst College) and self-taught technologist who found her way to programming through an interest in social media tools and relentless curiosity about their underlying technology and security processes.

Progressive experience – over ten years as an educator, program manager, and operations manager – informs her contributions as process manager, collaborator, and builder. She traversed a path of independent learning, attending lectures and study groups led by PyLadies, NYC Python, AppNexus, MongoDB, Legal Hackers, Data Driven, the Free Software Foundation, Women Who Code, and Noisebridge. Various hackathons also supported her informal education in SQL, NoSQL and hybrid database architecture, data-driven innovations, and network security. She further sharpened her technology “chops” more formally as an open source trainee during Mozilla's Ascend Project in 2014, where she gave her first lightning talk. At PyData NYC in 2015, she delivered an impromptu lightning talk and launched My Little Data in a Big Data World with a poster incorporating simple third-party computing and visualization tools. She can't stop!