Django: DSF member of the month - Elena Williams

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For June 2025, we welcome Elena Williams as our DSF member of the month! ⭐

Elena is a dedicated member of the Django community. She is part of the Code of Conduct Working Group and she is a Django Girls organizer in Australia. She has been a DSF member since July 2014.
You can learn more about Elena by visiting Elena's website and her GitHub Profile.

Let’s spend some time getting to know Elena better!

Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc)

My background is that I was always interested in computers, though my parents were more creative types, my Dad was an Architect (of built structures). When I was a kid we had computers for CAD around the house before it was common. I was always into STEM subjects, but unfortunately in that era for girls to do engineering it was a bit too hostile for me, so I trained in finance instead and worked in that industry (finance and banking, MNE orgs) for nearly a decade. I kept coming back to coding and was always building computers, and was obsessed with the internet as a technology from pretty early on. Just after I discovered Django I did a Masters in Computing at ANU. To this day my main hobbies are programming/webdev (very much a person who codes for fun) and the open source community. My persistent other hobbies are hackspace activities, I like CNC and laser stuff, but will pick up any and all tools/mediums and give them a go, lately been spending time with blender and cabinetry. When I can, I like to get away to snowboard or kitesurf, and this wild Australian long distance endurance navigation sport called rogaining. Really at the moment I’m mostly focussed on being a parent (which is an awesome experien...

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