Stephen Howell is the Academic Evangelist and Accessibility Lead for Microsoft Ireland. In this role he is a researcher, guest lecturer, and evangelist on many topics including Cloud engineering, teacher education, Computational Thinking, and applied Machine Learning. As Accessibility Lead, he is an advocate for greater awareness of accessibility and disability issues, particularly Autism, ADHD, and related neurodiversity areas. Formerly, he was a software engineer who discovered a passion for teaching. He has lectured on Software Engineering topics since 1999 in Irish and Northern Irish universities, and a visiting professorship in Japan.