Sheree Atcheson (born 28 February 1991) is a Sri Lankan-born Northern Irish computer scientist and Group Vice-President of Diversity & Inclusion at Valtech.
[1] At three weeks old, Atcheson was adopted by a Roman Catholic family in County Tyrone Northern Ireland United Kingdom, where she attended St Patrick's Academy, Dungannon.
As a child she played computer games with her brother and she decided that she wanted to pursue a career in technology.
[4] As an undergraduate student, only one in ten of her classmates were women, and Atcheson has worked since then to address this imbalance.
[11][12] and been featured in the Evening Standard,[13] BBC Make It Super Assembly [14] and Positive News.
[21] "I am Lanka"[2] began when Atcheson was searching for her birth mother, receiving thousands of messages from Sri Lankan people revealing that she had inspired them to share their stories.