Jennifer Opal is a Senior Data Platform Engineer currently collaborating at Harness on designing and maintaining scalable data pipelines. Jennifer has extensive experience in technical writing, having previously contributed to the Harness Software Delivery Platform, focusing on documentation for the Feature Flags team. Additionally, Jennifer serves as a Board Member for Neurodiversity in Business, advocating for the inclusion of neurodivergent individuals in corporate environments. Previous roles include Delegate for the United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women, DevOps Engineer at Dropbox, and Data Engineer at BT, where Jennifer utilized a broad technical stack encompassing cloud technologies and big data frameworks. As a content creator on YouTube, Jennifer aims to inspire underrepresented groups in the tech industry. Currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Goldsmiths, University of London, Jennifer also holds a Certificate of Higher Education in Counselling from Birkbeck, University of London.
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Neurodiversity in Business (NiB) - the Neurodiversity Charity
Neurodiversity in Business (NiB) is an industry forum that seeks to improve the inclusion of neurodivergent people in the workforce. Led by neurodivergent experts and those with direct experience of neurodiversity from across the business community, NiB works with leading global businesses by sharing best practice. Importantly, those who are actually neurodivergent are key to this organisation to ensure that NiB keeps true to the aims of the neurodivergent community. NiB’s mission is to help develop a more inclusive workplace. Whether it is ensuring a better hiring process that does not exclude neurodivergent candidates, to helping identify easy modifications to the workplace environment that can support sustainable employment opportunities. By ensuring a more neurodiverse workforce, businesses are not simply fulfilling some corporate social responsibility programme; they materially and commercially benefit. Those from a neurodivergent background can contribute in meaningful ways to business growth through their single-mindedness, attention to detail, innovative thinking patterns, diligence and creativity. They do however require better support than is currently available – and that is where NiB can help. We know that businesses are under pressure as never before to do more for the world they operate in. But we also know that by bringing businesses together, this can be addressed effectively and ensure that everyone benefits: businesses; neurodivergent individuals and society at large.