Wendy Kakuda
Deputy Managing Director at Diegesis Limited
Guildford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWendy Kakuda is a technology leader and hands-on developer with nine years’ experience, currently serving as Deputy Managing Director at Diegesis Limited where she drives strategic growth, operational excellence, and cross-team collaboration. She blends full-stack and cybersecurity development experience with senior leadership responsibilities, having managed resourcing, training, compliance and company-wide onboarding. Her technical background includes Agile delivery on battlefield interoperability and vulnerability assessment projects, while her earlier career spans communications, fundraising and therapeutic roles—bringing a rare mix of empathy, stakeholder engagement and structure to tech teams. Wendy’s teaching and mentoring roots (online instructor and student success manager) inform her focus on skills development and knowledge documentation across organisations. Based in Guildford, she pairs creative problem-solving from an art-therapy and fine arts education with pragmatic engineering practices. Offbeat curiosity—she once dreamed of living on a yellow submarine—underscores a willingness to explore unconventional solutions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bertlesmann Data Science Scholarship, Data Science, Bertlesmann Data Science Scholarship, Data Science at UdacityJapanese Studies, Japanese Studies at IES Tokyo ProgrammeMA, Art Therapy, MA, Art Therapy at Roehampton UniversityBFA, Fine Arts, BFA, Fine Arts at University of the PacificGeneral Studies, Child and Adolescent Development; Intro. to Psychology; Counselling Skills, General Studies, Child and Adolescent Development; Intro. to Psychology; Counselling Skills at San Joaquin Delta CollegeJS Full-stack Developer Techdegree, Full-stack Development, JS Full-stack Developer Techdegree, Full-stack Development at Treehouse
Japanese, Russian, Chinese
Github Skills (17)
technical-writing9
react8
community-management8
developer-tools5
expressjs5
zero-configuration5
javascript4
build-tools4
create-react-app4
mongodb4
responsiveness3
newsletter3
single-page3
nodejs3
testing2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alteredco/fcc-portfolio
Aug 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
alteredco/dot_portfolio
Jun 2019 - Dec 2024
The Portfolio of Wendy Kakuda
Contributions:11 PRs, 40 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years 6 months
javascript
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