Alicia is the first woman of color mobile developer to create a domestic violence app Purple Evolution, Inc(PEVO) dedicated to helping victims escape abuse. She used her acquired skills as a developer to make a difference. Alicia also dedicated her time to empowering women in tech with Women Who Code, she has received several major acknowledgment from Apple at WWDC15 and WWDC16 being the first black woman to be in an Apple 2016 new beginnings video and GitHub in there I am a developer video.
Luigi has been a proud civic hacker since 2008, when he published an open-source Ruby gem for an early open government API from Sunlight Labs. He currently works as a principal software engineer at Code for America. In 2014, Luigi co-founded Code for Atlanta and continues to help run it today. He also served on the Code for America Brigade National Advisory Council in 2017. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.
Talk - Civic Tech: No one's coming. It's up to us.
Charles Brian Quinn, also known as CBQ, is a passionate technologist, a programmer at heart, an entrepreneur to the core, an investor in people, a builder of products, an ardent salesperson, a loquacious speaker, a fumbling writer, and a self-proclaimed coffee snob. He enjoys sailing, running, and racing two-wheeled vehicles in the mud and on the track.
Talk - Launching a Month Early?!?
Erica Stanley is a software engineer, entrepreneur and tech diversity & inclusion advocate. She is a software engineering manager at SalesLoft – where she’s helping grow the product engineering team for the 4th fastest growing SaaS company in North America. She currently leads the Analytics and Integrations engineering teams--working with amazing engineers, product managers and designers to expose actionable data and insights that optimize our customers' sales processes. Erica also works passionately towards gender and multicultural inclusion in tech, via education and increased exposure to opportunities. As Founder of the Atlanta network of Women Who Code, she organizes events and opportunities to help women thrive in tech.
Matt is a Site Reliability Engineer at MailChimp where he's touched a little bit of everything. Previously, he studied Computer Science at University of Michigan. He enjoys these mild southern winters, the great outdoors, photography, and coffee.
Greg is a GitHub veteran based in Atlanta, but most often spotted in the field speaking with software professionals, hobbyists, and newcomers of all backgrounds. As a longtime DevOps practitioner, Greg has built teams and systems for teams that reduce friction and break down barriers to collaboration. In order to do this well, Greg spends most of his time working with development tools, both old and new, to constantly stay in tune with an ever-evolving software ecosystem.
Dustin is a Software Engineer Senior Manager at The Home Depot responsible for enterprise application platforms and developer tools targeting a community of thousands of software engineers. Current efforts include building out platforms on hybrid cloud architecture, retirement of legacy applications and platforms, Jenkins, Sonar, and GitHub operation, as well as development of software supporting all of these initiatives. Dustin has served as a systems engineer, product manager, and software developer in the transportation and retail industries. Originally from Atlanta, he played football at MIT and moved back down south in search of a warmer climate.
I will talk about how and why I wanted to be an iOS mobile developer at the age of 51. How a 16 year inspired me to learn to code and the challenges I face after becoming an iOS developer being the first self-taught African American woman mobile developer to create a domestic violence app dedicated to helping victims escape abuse and how Apple found me and was highlight at WWDC 2015, 2016 keynote event and GitHub I am a developer video. Some people want to believe that people my age are out of touch with technology and as a woman.
Civic Tech: No one's coming. It's up to us.
Across the country and the globe, technologists are realizing the potential they have to make their communities better through the movement known as Civic Tech. By advocating for open data and open source software, data scientists and software developers are pushing governments and non-profits to be more accountable and effective. User experience designers are advocating for modern, people-centered approaches to human and social services. Civic Tech is a movement with strong roots in Atlanta, and you can join it today.
At Big Nerd Ranch, we launched The Frontier, a new screencast service, a month earlier than planned to our customers via a customer pilot. Yes, it wasn't quite perfect, and we had tons of manual workflows and hotfixes, but through the help of a couple of workflow automation tools including GitHub, the Pull Request workflow, continuous integration, review apps -- we were able to launch early and gain critical feedback, and deploy these changes even quicker. I'll talk about how we changed our workflow a few times, and the resulting measurements of velocity and a few of the things that worked (including a slack notification every time someone signed up), and a few that didn't.
In October 2017, The Home Depot joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation, which supports a large open source project. Since then, the world’s largest home improvement retailer developed and has been executing on a strategy to give back meaningful contributions to the open source project. Dustin will discuss the initial approach and activity so far including successes and lessons learned.
This is the story of how MailChimp moved one application and 100+ engineers from bespoke, monthly releases to 50+ continuous deployments per day. Now, within minutes of pressing merge, code is live to MailChimp's 16 million customers. We'll cover the process and cultural growth that got us here – with a few technical deep dives along the way.
Constellation Atlanta presenters will be speaking in English.
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