Lily is a Cloud Solution Architect apprentice at Microsoft, studying a degree in Digital and Technology Solutions (Software Engineering). Her role is highly technical yet customer facing, and involves developing cloud technology and building artificial intelligence solutions for defence customers. She is super passionate about early careers and women in technology and has founded numerous initiatives and programmes like The EIC Society meet-up. She also runs @lilscodes to inspire and encourage others to follow their dreams, remove the stigma around apprenticeships and women in STEM, and share the learnings she has made over the last two years at Microsoft.

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