About

Andrea Magnorsky is a programmer and entrepreneur currently based in the New Zealand. She is a founder and is well-known in the programming community for her contributions to functional programming and software architecture. Magnorsky has over 20 years of experience in the software industry and has spoken at well-known international conferences and events on topics such as game development, functional programming, and software architecture. She is the creator of Bytesize Architecture Sessions.

Some of the initiatives she played a key role in:

• In the 2010s Magnorsky co-founded BatCat Games, a PC and Console game development company in the Republic of Ireland. She left the company before the end of the decade.
• Kats Conf. A programming conference that ran twice in Dublin, Ireland.
• Global GameCraft . A community that runs game jams, mostly in the Republic of Ireland. There were some events in London, Derry and New York.
• She also has an interest in History and Philosophy of Computing. These are some talks she created on the subject:
  • A brief and incomplete history of programming languages - Curry On
  • Keynote: Inviting everyone to the party