Hey, I'm Ola, a software developer & hobbyist event organizer from Poland living in London.

I started tinkering with code when I was 14. Very quickly this new hobby became my passion and lifestyle. I enjoy making things simpler and joyful to use. I love coding -- that's why I teached myself a variety of languages: Python, JavaScript, C and PHP. I enjoy Python and Django the most and I am honoured to be a Django Software Foundation developer member. I dig in some hardware-arduino-3dprinting stuff too. Currently I am doing software with great folks at Potato in London.

Entrepreneurship runs in my blood and as a result of that I created my first successful online business when I was 16. I am not ashamed to say that I failed a couple of times, too -- these were probably the most learning experiences in my life. I'm a co-founder of Issue Stand which makes a magazine publishers' life easier. I was also named one of the Top 100 Women in Tech in Europe on TechCrunch.

I love creating amazing experiences for people I care about. I organize community events for developers because, apparently, I am awesome at this. Together with Kuba, we did HACKWAW three times so far. We also organized DjangoCon Europe in a crazy circus tent on a horse racing track and transformed 300 people into Makers in a weekend. Today I am focused on spreading Make Things movement all over world and teaching women about programming by co-founding Django Girls. For the latter I rewarded with the Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize. This work is purely non-profit and chartiable so far but feels totally awesome.

Personally, I believe in karma, love spring, patterns, F·R·I·E·N·D·S and berries. I enjoy hard challenges, big changes and I try to live by this rules.

In the Internet, you can find me as @olasitarska.