Shelley Powers is an American author, web developer and technology architect.
For her work as an author and her long-running tech weblog Burningbird, Powers was called "one of the more visible women in technology" by Virginia DeBolt of BlogHer in 2008.
She told the BlogHer interviewer, "Women are making great strides in every field of science and technology, except computers and engineering.
[4] Powers's career as a computer book author began when she was working as a Powerbuilder developer in the 1990s and posted on help forums.
An editor for Waite Group Press saw her posts and asked her to co-author a book on the software.