Lorraine Pocklington
Data Community Manager
Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarLorraine Pocklington is a Data Community Manager with nine years focused on building engaged, inclusive technical communities across companies like Specsavers, Timescale, Percona and WordPress VIP. She combines a deep technical foundation—PL/SQL/SQL, database design and a long-ago Oracle DBA credential—with frontend skills (WordPress, HTML, CSS, PHP) and a background in graphic communication to make technical content accessible and visually compelling. Lorraine has a track record of growing member engagement both online and in-person, and she uses high empathy and customer-facing experience to turn user feedback into community-led product improvements. Her career spans hands-on database and migration work through to senior community strategy, giving her rare credibility with engineers and non-technical stakeholders alike. Based in Wales, she brings a marketer’s mindset to technical community building and a habit of continuous learning that keeps her tooling and approaches fresh.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
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544reputation
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Github Skills (63)
newsletter10
location10
pelican10
postgresql9
analytics9
time-series9
postgresql-extension9
sql9
landscape9
timescaledb9
ingest9
svg9
database9
rust9
ord8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
greenweeds/orbit
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
greenweeds/this-week-in-rust
Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
Data for this-week-in-rust.org
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 months
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