Blanca is a Distinguished Engineer @ UBS, working in London. She has worked as a Software Engineer for 10 years and is now transitioning into Data Engineering.

She specialises in solving tricky problems using code, while also leveraging the power of the engineering community within her organisation. She has been the UBS UK lead for Women in Tech and is now the co-lead of the Software Engineering Guild for EMEA.

She believes that only by understanding people's intersectionalities we can truly make a difference in the way we work.

In her free time she enjoys travelling, going out, reading and playing video games, and has recently started teaching her 5 year old son to code.