Rizwana Akmal Khan is a Customer Success Engineer at Vercel (the creators of Next.js, the React framework for production) and co-founder of ProjectFunction (a Nottingham-based start up which aims to educate and encourage under-represented and marginalised people to get involved in the tech industry).
She is also a software developer, polymathic designer, podcast rambler, and childhood poet. As a third-culture adult, Rizwana has grown up valuing diverse work environments and will always stand in support of spaces where people who may be seen as outsiders are given centre stage.