Lapsed software developer, current tech journalist and wannabe data scientist, Ciara Byrne started her career in Machine Learning research, was the CTO of a security software startup, and managed suites of products before building her own. Her writing has appeared in Fast Company, Forbes, MIT Technology Review, VentureBeat, O’ Reilly Radar, Techcrunch and The New York Times Digital. In 2014, she was shortlisted for the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship At MIT and was a Significance Labs Fellow. She is the founder of MadeVivid, a content agency for tech and science companies.