We're already halfway through our Salon Series!

The Salon Series is a monthly talk series that showcases the creative community of The Liquor Rooms. From comic illustrators to burlesque dancers, from DJs to coders, we want to know why they do the things they love, and how they started out. Attendees will also get to enjoy some delicious cocktail samples and a discounted cocktail on the night!

This month we're talking about coding with Vicky Twomey-Lee, Mick Twomey and Irina Dzhambazova! We host some great coding groups regularly and we want to hear how their organisers got into the sector, and what makes them love what they do.

Vicky Twomey-Lee
Vicky is a coder who loves things that are geeky. She use to work at Sun Microsystems back in the day followed by wading knee deep in bills, amendments and motions at Propylon and did a bit of freelancing. She fancied being a creative which took her back to study Masters in Multimedia. But nowadays she can be found organising and running community tech events around Dublin. She was also featured on Silicon Republic's 100 Top Women in STEM 2014 and on IrishCentral's talented 38 women of technology for 2014. She runs great projects such as Pyladies, Coding Grace, PythonIreland, GameCraft IT and PyCon Ireland and is on the board for Women in Technology and Science Ireland.

Mick Twomey
Michael Twomey is a software engineer who worked in computing for 20 years and landed in UNIX backend development and operations. He also works with Coding Grace (mentoring events), Global GameCraft (running events and coded up the site), Python Ireland (and previously I've helped run PyCon Ireland). He also helps create and run the sites.He currently works for Udemy and has previously worked for FieldAware,HubSpot, Amazon, RenaissanceRe and Sun Microsystems.

Irina Dzhambazova
Irina is the editor of Dublin Globe and describes herself as a hunter of human stories, the chief storyteller in #Kanban land, yogini, owner of limitless appetite for real coffee, food and wine and a roamer with a hungry heart. She runs the Dublin Lean Coffee meetups.