About Us.
We started the Ladybug Podcast as a few lady Twitter acquaintances looking to add our voices to the male-dominated tech podcast space.
We published our first episode on July 1, 2019. Since then we’ve published nearly 50 episodes, interviewed many amazing guests, and become close friends in the process.
We have a new host!
We’re thrilled to introduce you to our newest host, Sidney Buckner! Check out her video below to get to know her a bit better!
Kelly Vaughn
Atlanta, Georgia
Kelly Vaughn is a frontend developer and founder of The Taproom, a Shopify Plus agency rooted in Atlanta. Kelly and her team have helped hundreds of Shopify merchants build successful marketing strategies; map out customer journeys that convert; and provide the insight, experience, and tools businesses need to keep growing.
She's passionate about all things entrepreneurship. Since building her first website for a client project at the young age of 14, she has built up a strong customer base over the past 15 years and grew her solo freelance business from a team of one to an always-profitable team of ten in just one year.
When she's not coding or co-hosting the Ladybug Podcast, you can find her traveling the world with her husband and sampling all the wine and whiskey she can get her hands on.
Ali Spittel
Chicago, Illinois
Ali teaches people to code. She is a Distinguished Faculty member at General Assembly teaching their Software Engineering Immersive for campus, online, and enterprise programs. She has also taught their Python part-time class, and is part of their Python Product Advisory Board.
She has also been a software engineer and developer advocate. She also blogs about the things she wished she knew when she was learning to code. Her blog posts have been read well over a million times. She also speaks and gives workshops at conferences all over the world.
When she's not coding, you can find her watching trashy TV shows, running with her dog Blair, or rock climbing. She's a digital nomad, and lives in a new city pretty much every month.
Emma Bostian
Stockholm, Sweden
Emma is a Software Engineer at Spotify in Stockholm, Sweden. Born and raised in Upstate New York, Emma graduated from Siena College in Albany with a B.S. in Computer Science and moved to Austin, Texas for three years where she worked as an engineer at IBM.
Emma then moved to Karlsruhe, Germany where she worked as an Engineer at LogMeIn for three years. In her spare time, Emma teaches at LinkedIn Learning, Frontend Masters, and more.
Sidney Buckner
St. Louis, Missouri
Sidney is a Java Software Engineer born and raised in St. Louis MO. She graduated from Saint Louis University with a B.A. in English Rhetoric and the strong need to make people laugh, learn something, and in 2018 she decided to pivot her career to learn to code. She is currently a JavaScript instructor for LaunchCode and YouTuber by night. Her videos range in topics from productivity, careers in tech, lifestyle, and unsolicited advice.
When she's not coding she's happily playing video games, catching an orchestra concert, or caring for her 20+ plants.