Gretchen is a founder of Kaleida; the only platform with technology focused career growth architectures designed to help you implement best practice, retain key staff and drive engagement.
Prior to this, she was the Community Manager at Cloudflare which acquired Linc.sh where Gretchen was the Chief Operating Officer, a startup that built a CI/CD tool especially designed for frontend development.
Starting out studying optimisation modelling, which she then used running one of New Zealand's biggest trade shows, she fell in love with software development after graduating a web development bootcamp. Her main passion is bringing more diversity to tech in all it forms such as gender, race, social economic and professional backgrounds. Over the years she has been involved in training more than 250 bootcamp graduates through Coder Academy, is currently a Director at Women Who Code Melbourne and on the Churchill Club Committee.
