Charlene Hunter

Part of the IT Leaders 100 - a list of the most influential IT leaders in the UK in 2024.

Charlene Hunter is the CEO & founder of Coding Black Females, a non-profit that advocates for Black women in tech. She founded the organisation after realising how underrepresented Black women were in the sector. She wanted this to change, and ensure that Black women were able to discover role models and see familiar faces within the industry.

Charlene has a BSc in Mathematical Sciences and an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham, and over 10 years of experience as a Java and C# developer and technical architect. She also has skills in requirements capture, technical architecture, testing and various other aspects of building successful software applications.

She has a strong passion to increase and showcase the skills and talents of Black women in tech and is determined to diversify the tech sector.

Charlene has received multiple awards and recognition work she does to support Black women in tech.