Profile

Honey Sukesan is an embedded software developer currently working in automotive software domain. She is part of a team helping her employer to deliver software platform for their next generation vehicle architecture. Her previous work experience was mostly with embedded healthcare domain where she got the opportunity to work in various projects servicing healthcare OEMs like Toshiba, GE Healthcare, Medtronic and Covidien.

Her first programming love is C++ as it's the first language she learned in school when she was 15. As an embedded software developer, she programs in C / C++ and Python.

She is interested in professional networking; learning and sharing knowledge; reusing best practices/standards from other software domains. She believes in continuous learning and having a broad understanding of technical/non-technical/soft-skills for her self-improvement as a professional and a person. She had the opportunity to participate in various technical conferences and she presented talks in a few.

In her leisure, she enjoys volunteering in various technical communities, participate in technical meetup groups especially C++, professional networking. Her achievements in the year 2023 include ISO C and C++ committee membership, Lucid Champion title, HacktoberFest2023 participation and guest appearance in CppCast podcast.

Her ambition is to qualify herself as a Subject Matter Expert in Embedded software field, participate in various technical conferences, become an international technical speaker/author, contribute to C++ and programming community, and to support folks from under-represented communities to tech. She is also ready to mentor young generation of software engineers in order to share the experiences she gained all these years and thereby continuing her learning journey on her leisure.

Skills

C / C++ / Python / Embedded Linux / QNX / RTOS

TL;DR

🔭 Honey works on embedded software application design and development using C/C++/Python
🌱 She is currently practicing Modern C++
⭐ She is an ISO C (WG14) and ISO C++ (WG21) committee member
🌟 She is an organizer for #include<c++> community
🥇 She is selected as a "Lucid Champion" since 2023
👯 She is looking to collaborate on C++, C++ idioms, Embedded software/protocols, Python, best practices, software design
💬 Ask her about programming and best practices
📫 How to reach Honey: Reach her at @hsukesan in Twitter
😄 Pronouns: she/her
⚡ Fun fact: She is thriving to learn one new thing everyday juggling work and her family.
🟦 Visit her profile : Honey's LinkedIn profile

Why sponsorship?

Honey is a working mom of a 12 year old boy. She comes from an under-represented community of women software engineers from South India. She juggles her work and family, struggles to keep supporting all her volunteering and open-source contributions by sacrificing most of her leisure into dedicating these activities.
A sponsorship would be meaningful for her when it comes to funding her time/effort for open-source contributions and for her resources (like books for her technical reading which will help her in knowledge sharing, helping her to attend conferences etc rather than using her family fund to cover all those especially living in an expensive country like Ireland with a family.)
In return of sponsorship, Honey could work towards her open-source ambitions (She has various open-source project ideas and she has plans to support various critical open-source projects.) Also she has various other plans for sharing her knowledge and to inspire other folks from under-represented communities into STEM and open-source.