In 2021, DAZN sponsored six students to take part in the Code First Girls Degree (formerly known as the Nanodegree). Each student was given a mentor from the DAZN engineering team and benefitted from one-on-one support throughout the course. At the end of the programme, Julie and Abi were offered…

This is my first ever technical (kind of) blog post — be gentle with me! I felt the need to write this after taking on what I thought was a fairly straightforward challenge, to create a reusable color theme with light/dark modes using Create-React-App, Material UI and Typescript, for use…

Last year DAZN sponsored six students to take part in Code First Girls NanoDegree programme. These six ladies were mentored one on one by DAZN Engineers during the duration of the course and we were very pleased to see them all graduate in September 2021 at Code Fest. At the…

Code First Girls, the UK social enterprise working to close the gender gap in technology, announced at the start of the year new strategic partnerships with 14 leading global and UK corporations, including DAZN. Each company has signed up to give women the fair advantage. This includes providing them with…

Last week, Wednesday 31st March, was International Transgender day of Visibility (TDoV) which takes place every year to raise awareness of discrimination faced by trans people worldwide. …

DAZN was a gold sponsor of CITYJSCONF LONDON virtual conference last week and we contributed to the event with a virtual booth on the interactive platform Gather Town. We all miss in-person events and the chance to connect with people in the engineering world from outside of DAZN, so this…

CityJS started in 2018 and is a community conference created by London JavaScript meet-up groups such as London JS, Halfstack, Node user group and JS Monthly. CityJS is a non-profitable conference with the purpose of giving back to their community. Last year the conference was scheduled to take place at…

I had the pleasure of joining some other amazing ladies at DAZN to deliver DAZN’s first online session for code first girls. Through its coding, mentorship and upskill programmes, Code First Girls is providing initiatives to support women in tech — including access to top female talent, engaging workshops and…