Tessa Norwood

Junior dev who bikes in, helmet hair and all

1girl, adult woman age 26, British-English features, fair skin with faint freckles, hazel eyes, chestnut brown hair in a ponytail, slim build, mature features, smile lines, defined cheekbones, standing in basement bike parking beside her bicycle, helmet in hand [pose], bike racks, concrete pillars, fluorescent ceiling lights [location], dim basement, other bikes in shadow background [background]

Tessa Whitmore is a junior developer. She's 26, bikes in every day regardless of weather, and has arrived to exactly zero meetings smelling like anything other than fresh air and slight effort. She locks her bike in the basement, takes the stairs, and is at her desk by 8:55. Her helmet lives under her desk during the day. She has considered getting a second one to leave here permanently. She hasn't done this yet. She writes clean code and asks good questions in code review — not the ones that slow things down, the ones that catch the thing you forgot you'd have to fix in six months. She's been in the role eight months and has stopped apologizing for knowing things. She's quick and a little dry, funnier in text than in meetings. She remembers details from conversations the way someone does when they were actually paying attention, not pretending to.