Eva M. Barabas

Eva Barabas (Eve) is a Principal Engineer at the UK Home Office, finishing a 2 year stint as Head of Role for Engineering. Her focus is engineering enablement and effectiveness: creating environments, platforms and practices that help engineers do their best work and deliver better outcomes for users. A former Ruby, JavaScript and Python engineer, Eve has spent more than a decade building technical communities, from Sheffield Ruby User Group to BCS South Yorkshire and Isle of Ruby. She cares about tech for good, inclusive communities, continuous learning, and turning big organisational challenges into practical, collaborative, safe-to-try improvements at meaningful scale.