Aleksandra is an IT professional who spent most of her working life in academia and research. Over the past years committed to ongoing improvement of research software practice through training and community engagement. Driving the trends in training for researchers and scientists in computational and data analysis skills forward and designing and developing new training curricula. Maintaining the UK’s pivotal role within the international research training community by running events, training instructors, helping academic and industry organisations deliver training for researchers and handling national and international collaborations and outreach with various communities. Prior to moving into training and technical project management, worked as a senior research software engineer in academia and gained experience in a variety of software platforms, infrastructures, technologies, programming languages and software product management.