Melissa Houghton

@melissahoughton
Lead Software Engineer at Azenix | Microsoft MVP
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
She/Her

Software Engineering

Microsoft MVP

.NET

Azure

Speaker

Meetup Host

Conference Organizer

Conference Attendee

Full Stack Developer

Cat Mother

Coffee Lover

Volunteer

Imposter Syndrome

Web Developer

Front-end Developer

JavaScript

TypeScript

Coding

Tweets

Software Engineer

Conference Speaker

Professional

Content Creator

Women in Tech

Melissa Houghton is a Lead Software Engineer at Azenix and a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies.

Her work is focused on application development using .NET, and Azure, but she has a wide variety of skills and is always open to learning new things.

An advocate for women in tech with a passion for leadership, technology and giving back to the community. She frequents tech events, is an international conference speaker and organiser of DDD Melbourne conference, Melb․NET meetup, and Microsoft AU New Breakpoint Community.

Originally from California, Melissa loves to travel and now lives in Melbourne, Australia.

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I'm open to

speaking at events,

open source contributions,

speaking on podcasts,

live streaming,

and new client inquiries.

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Resume

May 2021 - Present

Lead Software Engineer, Azenix

Jan 2021 - May 2021

Lead Consultant, Telstra Purple

Oct 2019 - Jan 2021

Senior Consultant, Telstra Purple

Aug 2019 - Oct 2019

Senior Developer, Readify

Portfolio

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Digital Twins: Your Next Step in IoT (Sydney) Spoke at Voxxed Days Sydney and gave my talk "Digital Twins: Your Next Step in IoT"

Digital Twins: Your Next Step in IoT (Melbourne) Spoke at Voxxed Days Melbourne and gave my talk "Digital Twins: Your Next Step in IoT"

Organising NDC Melbourne Part of the organising committee for NDC Melbourne 2022 happening on June 20-24 in person! https://ndcmelbourne.com/

Melb.NET Meetup Organised the October virtual Melb.NET meetup event https://www.meetup.com/Melb-NET-Meetup/events/280202218/

2021 Speaking Engagements

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Exploring whats new in .NET 6 Featured on Microsoft ANZ Developer's #NewBreakpoint Comunity talk with David Gardiner discussing what is new in .NET 6 https://twitter.com/MicrosoftDevANZ/status/1463...

.NET Internet of Things Spoke at .NET Conf with my talk ".NET Internet of Things" https://youtu.be/rJihxeL5cGI

Leadership Through Self-Awareness Gave the keynote at NDC Sydney with my talk "Leadership Through Self-Awareness" https://youtu.be/Ye8Pks1_IJ4

VS Code: optimising productivity today Co-hosted a table topic at Microsoft Ignite 2021: "VS Code: optimising productivity today" Community discussion of how best to use Visual Studio Code to optim...