Diana Dromey

Events & Marketing Lead

she/her

Originally from Portugal but call Manchester UK my home.
I love meeting people, hosting friends and family, snowboarding, food, binge-watching sci-fi TV shows, photography, my family and life itself!

🎂 MoTaBirthday | January 13, 2020

Open To

Review Conference Proposals

MoTaverse Team

Attending MoTaCon 🤝

Chapter Lead

Moments (152)

Ceci n'est pas une bug

1st October, 2026 at 19:06. The MoTaCon social is coming to an end and it's time to clear up. I grabbed four canvases, positioned them on the shelf at the far end of the Corn Exchange and marvelled...

12 Oct

Engineering Manager Beach Party!

Found this when looking back over my pictures from Motacon, enjoying the Engineering Manager Beach party the night before the big day

11 Oct

Build test environments for AI (with AI)

AI agents now generate 10x more unverified code - while slow, flaky, expensive test environments can't keep up. Relying on shared production replicas is no longer an option. In this photo, Tom...

9 Oct

I need a chair!

At MoTaCon 2026, a large chunk of the Corn Exchange pulled up a chair to find out about WireMock. The WireMock team turned their stand into a full-house session on simulating environments for ...

9 Oct

Insights (1)

How to obtain budgets for attending conferences

Conference planning tips, template letters and a very handy prompt example

24 Aug

Sessions (2)

MoTaCon 24/7/404 - Ep 131

A chaotic-but-fun start with 'Diana 404' turns into a big community update: SQEC milestones, the MoTaCon lineup reveal, and why MoT Pro membership is the simplest way to be part of it all.

17 Apr