Hi, I'm Jennifer Opal. 👋🏾(she/her)
I'm a Data Engineer with past experience in DevOps Engineering. I'm also a Multi Awarding Winning Neurodiversity Advocate, & Keynote Speaker.✨
- I'm autistic with dyslexia, dyspraxia & ADHD. I'm unapologetic about being neurodivergent! 🧠
- I'm Congolese! 🇨🇩
- I'm a London Girl, born & raised but based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. 🇬🇧
- I sit on the Co-Production Board of a charity, "Neurodiversity In Business". ⚖️
- I speak English, Lingala and French (kind of...). 🎙
- I play the piano & taught myself from the age of 12. 🎹
- I've spoken at Bloomberg, Google, BT & Code First: Girls. 🧡
- Most Influential Women In Tech UK, ComputerWeekly.com (Shortlist, 2021)
- CDIS (Congolese Diaspora Impact Summit) Rising Leaders (Named, 2020)
- WeAreTechWomen Tech Women 100 Award (Winner, 2020)
- Rising Technologist Award at the Booking.com Technology Playmaker Awards (Nominated, 2020)
- Most Influential Women In Tech UK, ComputerWeekly.com and Makers Academy (Shortlist, 2020)
- Rising Star Award at the Black Tech Achievement Awards (Winner, 2020)
- 50 of the Most Influential Black Voices In Tech UK by TechNation (Named, 2019)
- Most Influential Women In Tech UK by ComputerWeekly.com, Level39 and Makers Academy (Named, 2019)
- UK's first Women in Software Powerlist by Makers Academy & ComputerWeekly.com (Shortlisted, 2019)
- Studying BSc Business & Strategic Management Degree at The Open University. I graduate in 2025!
- Building an app for a Machine Learning model that can help predict and prevent sensory overload for autistic people and ADHDers.
- Preparing to start my Masters of Science in People Centred Artificial Intelligence in September 2025."
