Rebecca Long is a software engineer with 15 years experience focusing on quality assurance and devops at a cyber-risk assessment company in Spokane, Washington. She holds undergraduate and master's degrees in computer science with her thesis on social engineering and phishing within a financial institution. While having been a leader in the Spokane tech community for most of the last decade, in 2018 she finally launched her dream of a non-profit called Future Ada which supports and advocates for women and non-binaries in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics). She lives with two cats, who are the true masters of the household.