Valerie DrydenCodeBase |
Mentor's bio
Valerie is a tech leader with 16 years of experience working in start-ups, scale-ups and agencies. She is currently Director of Engineering at $8.5bn unicorn application security scale-up Snyk, where she defines technical strategy while building and nurturing her teams. Previously she was Head of Engineering for £150m Series D insuretech unicorn Zego, and Director of Engineering at £9m Series A health tech start-up CareSourcer. She has over a decade of hands-on engineering experience, including building critical payment systems at scale with Deliveroo. Valerie cares deeply about building compassionate, kind and empathetic teams that treat each other with respect while adding maximum business value.