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Shirley Tarboton
Capgemini
Shirley Tarboton is a Lead Software Engineer with Capgemini’s Cloud Dev Team. She has helped to build and deploy many cloud-hosted java microservice systems. Many of her projects have been within public sector clients, but she has also delivered systems for a range of industries including digital interactive TV.
In addition to her software engineering career, Shirley has worked as a university lecturer, a charity administrator, and as a founder / Tech Lead of a social enterprise working to bridge the digital divide using voicexml.
In her home life, her family strives to reduce its carbon footprint by experimenting with technology e.g. low-carbon heating, low-carbon travel, low-carbon cooking.
Shirley is driven by a desire to solve problems in a simple and efficient way, using appropriate technology, so as to maximise benefit to the wider community. She has found this approach to be consistent with sustainability objectives, agile and devops.
In addition to her software engineering career, Shirley has worked as a university lecturer, a charity administrator, and as a founder / Tech Lead of a social enterprise working to bridge the digital divide using voicexml.
In her home life, her family strives to reduce its carbon footprint by experimenting with technology e.g. low-carbon heating, low-carbon travel, low-carbon cooking.
Shirley is driven by a desire to solve problems in a simple and efficient way, using appropriate technology, so as to maximise benefit to the wider community. She has found this approach to be consistent with sustainability objectives, agile and devops.
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- Devoxx UK 2024
Decarbonising code


