Summary
Ashani Arora is a Community Manager and multidisciplinary developer with 11 years’ experience building web, mobile and game projects and growing inclusive tech communities from London. She has hands-on experience across front-end React, iOS Swift, DevOps tooling and game AI—work that ranged from mentoring graduates at YOOX NET-A-PORTER to creating monitoring dashboards and developer-facing demos at Samsung. As an international tech speaker and developer advocate she combines public-facing advocacy with pragmatic engineering, turning demo code and blog content into tangible partner outcomes. Currently leading community at codebar while managing property operations, she brings a rare mix of event- and people-first leadership with production engineering discipline. Known for making things fun—“games, code, fun”—she also has a research background in accessible game AI and a history of teaching programming to young learners.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Performing Arts (Performance) (QCF) The Development of Dance Musical Theater Performance Performing Dance, Performing Arts (Performance) (QCF) The Development of Dance Musical Theater Performance Performing Dance at The College of Haringey, Enfield & North East London
A levels; Maths Biology Psychology, A levels; Maths Biology Psychology at Dame Alice Owens School
BSc (Hons) Games Programming Advance Graphics and Animation Physical Computing Games AI, BSc (Hons) Games Programming Advance Graphics and Animation Physical Computing Games AI at Goldsmiths, University of London