Conference Speakers & Workshop Leaders

iSAQB Software Architecture Gathering 2025

Clare Sudbery

Independent Technical Coach

Clare Sudbery is an independent coach who has worked in software engineering since the mid-90s. She specialises in helping those in technical leadership, and teaching eXtreme Programming (XP) practices such as TDD, refactoring, pairing, and continuous integration.

In 2009, Clare sharpened her teaching skills via a brief stint as a high school maths teacher… but quickly returned to software, gaining new energy via leadership and XP. Clare taught the Coding Black Females’ Return to Tech programme, runs various online trainings for O’Reilly, and co-ran Made Tech’s academy. She has a passion for helping underrepresented groups to flourish in tech.

Clare hosted Season One of the acclaimed Making Tech Better podcast and is in high demand to present workshops and talks at a wide variety of international conferences and events. She blogs at Queen of Questions (https://queen-of-questions.kit.com/).