About Salma Alam-Naylor

Salma is looking straight at you, sat at her desk. Behind her is a wooden wall with VHS style art on it depicting HTML and CSS in VHS cover art form, there's a bit of a shelf behind her on the right where you can see a plant and a GitHub stars trophy. In the foreground there is a microphone. She is folding her arms, wearing a black high next top and thick rimmed black glasses, sitting on a cream chair that you can see the back of. To the left behind her there is a glimpse of a pink patterned chair and another plant.

I write code for your entertainment.

I'm a software engineer, developer educator, and live streamer. I help developers build cool stuff by writing blog posts, making videos, coding live on Twitch, and publishing open source projects. Head of Developer Education at nordcraft.com.

Speaker bio

Salma writes code for your entertainment. She helps developers build cool stuff with blog posts, videos, live coding and open source projects. After a career as a music teacher and comedian, Salma transitioned to technology in 2014, working as a front end developer and tech lead for startups, agencies and global e-commerce, moving to Developer Experience and Developer Education in 2021.

Active in the developer community, Salma is a GitHub Star, a Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies, winner of the Jamstack Conf Community Creator Award 2021, and a partnered Twitch streamer where she builds weird websites and silly projects, roasts your code, and chats about the tech industry every week for your entertainment.

Long bio

Hello! I'm Salma, and I write code for your entertainment.

I remember writing my first lines of code on a Commodore 64 when I was six years old, but I spent my childhood playing and composing music. I graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music (UK), with a First Class Honours degree in music composition in 2008.

After a few years working as a composer, musician, and rock band teacher, I qualified as a school music teacher in 2012. After a brief side quest in musical comedy, I transitioned my career from music to tech in 2014 when I found my first front end development job. I've worked as a front end developer and tech lead for startups, product agencies and global e-commerce, and I transitioned to developer experience and developer education in 2021.

I've been streaming live coding on Twitch since 2020. My regular audience comprises beginners, mid-career developers and those with 20+ years experience who all come together to have fun with code and share experiences and advice. I build a variety of open source projects on stream, including fun and silly websites and helpful code examples to support educational tutorials. I also maintain a thriving Discord community, where people can ask for tech help, career advice, or hang out and co-work during the day.

As well as a partnered Twitch streamer, I am a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies, GitHub Star, and was the winner of the Jamstack Conf 2021 Community Creator Award.

I regularly speak on podcasts, at technology conferences, events, meet-ups and pair-programme on live streams. Get in touch if you'd like to work with me!