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About You

Your Name: Chris Nguyen

Twitter handle (optional): uncompiled

The best way to reach out to you: DCtech Slack

A quick bio:

I have a BS & MS in Computer Science, but I'm most likely unable to implement A* Search or invert a binary tree during a technical interview. I've been a tech lead and a project manager, but Excel and PowerPoint did not spark joy, so I threw them away to focus on building things. I'm currently a software engineer at The Washington Post where I build Web Things™ and try not to break the internet.

Your Talk

Title: HTTP2 Fast 2 Performant (title subject to change)

What your talk is about:

This talk is an introduction to HTTP2, it's implementation, and some anti-patterns. While the HTTP2 specification is mostly locked down, the implementation of some of the more exciting features, such as H2 Server Push are still changing. Work is still being done within the web standards community to make Server Push and Resource Preloading work better, but this talk will help web developers understand how everything works and how HTTP2 affects our current development practices, such as resource bundling.

NOTE: I've given another talk that's a precursor to this. That talk was an introduction to how browsers work and explained the role of the network (HTTP, DNS, TCP) in fetching resources. This talk is sort of an evolution of that presentation that focuses solely on how HTTP2 affects web development.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

About You

Your Name:
Alexaner Slotte

Twitter handle (optional):
https://twitter.com/alexslotte

The best way to reach out to you:
E-mail: [email protected]

A quick bio:
Alexander works as a Senior Consultant at Excella, and has many years of engineering experience from highly regulated industries to fast moving start-ups. His primary focus is web and cloud development, but has always had a sore spot for data and business analytics.

Your Talk

Title: Real Time Data Streaming with Azure Stream Analytics

What your talk is about:
It’s imperative in today's world to be able to make split second decisions based on real-time data. Reports based on batch data are great for looking back at trends and potentially making long-term decision, but old data is in many cases already obsolete, and the opportunity to have an actionable impact on the success of a specific process may have been lost.

What if we easily could set up a near real-time data pipeline, that could be used to provide complex analytics, and make intelligent actions based on the result? Allow me to introduce Azure Stream Analytics! In this talk, we will take a closer look at the Azure Stream Analytics ecosystem, and look at real world examples streaming twitter feeds as well as sensor data from Raspberry Pi's, demonstrating how you can build your own burglar alarm.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

About You

Your Name: Sean Killeen

Twitter handle (optional): sjkilleen

The best way to reach out to you: E-mail ([email protected])

A quick bio: Originally from the Philadelphia area, Sean has 15+ years of experience solving problems as an IT professional and developer for commercial, non-profit, and federal clients. He's currently the .NET Specialty Lead at Excella Consulting -- he highly recommends you check them out. He recently served on a modernization project that industry analysts called "more complex than the moon landing". He also servers as a co-trainer for Excella's Agile Testing & Automation and Agile Engineering courses. Aside from loving his work way too much, there's a good chance he's enjoying/stressing about being a new homeowner, sipping great beer, exploring the Arlington area, or singing somewhere. You can find him on Twitter at @sjkilleen or blogging not nearly often enough at SeanKilleen.com. He doesn't bite; say hi!

Your Talk

Title: We need your voice! A guide to putting yourself out there

What your talk is about: Have you ever wondered whether you have something to contribute to conversations in the tech industry? YOU TOTALLY DO. In this session, Sean will walk through ways to think about adding your voice to help shape our industry, and what benefits you and your community may gain as a result. He'll share prompts to get you started, and tips to help you follow through. His hope is that you will leave with a renewed conviction that your voice matters, and a pathway to put it out there and feel good about it.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

It’s awesome that people are submitting talks here!

Sometimes it can feel frustrating if no response is received immediately on a talk — I think we might be able to avoid that, and give some warm fuzzy feels, if we auto-reply to a new submission with a thank you, and explain how the process works.

What do y’all think?

I’d be happy to code something up, but we should settle on what to say, if we decide to move forward with this.

I believe Probot should be configured to auto-reply to issues — this issue confirms I’ve configured it all correctly. Sorry for the noise! 😅

About You

Victoria Guido

victori_ousg

Twitter DM open

An Operations Manager at Blackstone Federal, Victoria Guido lives to inspire change, compassion, and curiosity in upcoming leaders in technology. She leads several local technology and management communities in her hometown of Washington, DC - including DevOps DC, Women Who Code, DC Atlassian User Group, and the Project Management Institute. With over 12 years of experience in IT in a broad range of roles, she has led major cloud, cybersecurity, and agile software development projects for large Federal Agencies and private financial institutions.

Your Talk

Avoiding Pitfalls of Non-Technical Managers

What your talk is about:
Technology is really complicated and changes every day. Even leaders with a technical background and deep understanding have trouble keeping up - it’s virtually impossible to be an expert on every single aspect of a product. How can you help your team if you have no idea what anyone is talking about? Engineers and developers have all experienced the frustration and difficulties in being led by someone deemed “non-technical”, from unrealistic deadlines or solutions being promised to the customer, to a lack of trust and complete breakdown in communication. Explore how to create a culture of learning, form a cross-functional team, and play to your strengths. Start by removing the boundary between “technical” and “non-technical” and being specific with the skillsets, history, and experience all of your team members are bringing to the table. At the end of the day, everyone appreciates a good manager no matter what technical skills they may or may not have.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

About You

Your Name:
Matt Schaar

Twitter handle (optional):
mattschaar

The best way to reach out to you:
Email! ([email protected])

A quick bio:
15+ years of experience in a variety of technical, customer-facing, and marketing roles. I've led initiatives ranging from technical design to user growth to community programs, all while building critical relationships with product users.

I spend a lot of time thinking about a few topics: How technology can be a driving force for positive social change; How to speak authentically to developer communities; And, how to run incredulous distances without getting bored.

Your Talk

Title:
Product Marketing 101: how to make marketing not terrible

What your talk is about:
Developers want their products to be used - it foments feedback, which foments better products, which foments happier users, and so on. But how do you connect with the humans you want to use your product? That's where product marketing comes in - and during this talk, you'll learn how to best leverage it to connect your products to the people that will benefit from them.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

Talk Request

Topic(s):
Deno, the new TypeScript alternative to Node

Additional Notes:
Ryan Dahl, the original creator of Node.js, has created Deno, after a pretty compelling presentation on "10 Things I Regret About Node.js" (JSConf EU 2018).

I can understand some of the regrets that Ryan expressed re: Node, but have no idea what the current direction for Deno is. Would it be used just server-side? (Ryan mentions trying to allow it to work in the browser, where Node doesn't). What would code sharing look like, if there's no npm? And what are the chances that people start using Deno, and/or when?

What would the ideal length be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

On Behalf Of

Requesting people or Meetups:

• Me
• DCJS

The best way to reach out to them:
Here on GitHub

• @jackkoppa
• @dctech/dcjs

About You

Your Name:
Ali Spittel

Twitter handle (optional):
@aspittel

The best way to reach out to you:
Email: ali[at]dev.to

A quick bio:

Ali is a software engineer at DEV. Before that, she was a lead instructor at General Assembly. She loves Python, JavaScript, and talking about code. She is most interested in the intersection of programming, art, and education.

When Ali's not working, you can find her watching New England sports, competing on CodeWars, taking runs around Capitol Hill, rock climbing, or participating in DC coding community events.

Ali also blogs at dev.to/aspittel where she learns talks about code and her life surrounding it. Her writing has gotten roughly 600,000 readers in the past year.

Your Talk

Title:

Writing Workshop: Using Blogging and Great Documentation to Grow Your Open Source Project

What your talk is about:

Writing blog posts and strong documentation for your open source projects is crucial for growing both a user and a contributor base. Your writing is the most effective way to communicate why and how people should use your project. But, you're a software engineer, not a content strategist! How can you effectively target the people you need to with your blog posts and documentation? Also, how can you accurately communicate the goals for your project? This workshop will take you through the writing process, from deciding who you're writing for through what happens after you press publish (or commit to GitHub).

We will start by discussing why strong documentation and blog posts are important for open source projects, and we'll look at some projects who have great content strategies. We will then we'll discuss who your project's target audience is -- whether that's new developers or specialized experts. Then, we'll discuss how to come up with blog post topics, how to make that content engaging and understandable, and how to reach that audience and grow a following.

This workshop will be very hands-on, and attendees will leave with the following completed worksheets:

• A completed worksheet about your target audience and how to reach it
• A list of possible blog post topics
• An outline of the types of documentation needed for your project
• An outline of a blog post

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Can be tailored down, but can be up to 2/3 hrs given the event.

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

About You

Victoria Guido

victori_ousg

Twitter

A quick bio:
An Operations Manager at Blackstone Federal, Victoria Guido lives to inspire change, compassion, and curiosity in upcoming leaders in technology. She leads several local technology and management communities in her hometown of Washington, DC - including DevOps DC, Women Who Code, DC Atlassian User Group, and the Project Management Institute. With over 12 years of experience in IT in a broad range of roles, she has led major cloud, cybersecurity, and agile software development projects for large Federal Agencies and private financial institutions.

Your Talk

The Value of Diversity & Inclusion to DevOps

What your talk is about:
Research shows that diverse, inclusive teams are better at solving problems, more creative, and higher performing. The underlying truth in the value of D&I lies in the evolutionary psychology of the human brain - how we learn, empathize with others, and develop new ideas.

Have you ever faced an issue with a server or application for hours on end, only to have someone else come over and help you figure it out in two seconds? That’s the value of bringing in a different perspective, changing the algorithm you’re using to solve a problem and ultimately getting a better result.

In this talk we’ll share common steps, lessons learned, and tips & resources that can help you personally OR as an organization work toward creating a diverse and inclusive environment. We’ll highlight the changes in our company - from our hiring practices to the art on the walls - and share the value we’ve found in truly investing in D&I and the impact on our business.

How long will your talk be?

• [x ] 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• [x ] 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• [x ] No

About You

Your Name: Sean Killeen

Twitter handle (optional): sjkilleen

The best way to reach out to you: E-mail ([email protected])

A quick bio: Originally from the Philadelphia area, Sean has 15+ years of experience solving problems as an IT professional and developer for commercial, non-profit, and federal clients. He's currently the .NET Specialty Lead at Excella Consulting -- he highly recommends you check them out. He recently served on a modernization project that industry analysts called "more complex than the moon landing". He also servers as a co-trainer for Excella's Agile Testing & Automation and Agile Engineering courses. Aside from loving his work way too much, there's a good chance he's enjoying/stressing about being a new homeowner, sipping great beer, exploring the Arlington area, or singing somewhere. You can find him on Twitter at @sjkilleen or blogging not nearly often enough at SeanKilleen.com. He doesn't bite; say hi!

Your Talk

Title: An Introduction to the Actor Model and Akka.NET

What your talk is about: Akka.NET is an Actor Model Framework that helps .Net developers create powerful concurrent & distributed applications more easily. The Actor Model is a well-established paradigm for building fault-tolerant and scalable applications that has recently seen a resurgence as distributed and asynchronous systems gain popularity. In this introductory talk, Sean will walk you through the concepts of the actor model, its benefits over traditional approaches, and the basics of how to use Akka.NET to achieve these advantages in your .NET applications.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

About You

Your Name: Meggie Ladlow

Twitter handle (optional): @meggie_l

The best way to reach out to you: LinkedIn Messaging, Twitter DM

A quick bio: Meggie Ladlow is a Lead Software Engineer at United Income. She has experience in Software Engineering, Business Development, project leadership, and mentoring. Meggie is a local lead for Women Who Code DC, where she helps run a bi-weekly algorithms meetup. Before United Income, Meggie worked at Palantir Technologies and Tecore Networks.

Your Talk

Title: Workshop: Introduction to Serverless

What your talk is about: The workshop begins with a brief talk of why you might want to consider a serverless implementation for your project. The actual workshop component will walk attendees through setting up an AWS Lambda function that reads from a DynamoDB table using the Serverless Framework.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk) (without the workshop)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

About You

Your Name:
Alexander Slotte

Twitter handle (optional):
https://twitter.com/alexslotte

The best way to reach out to you:
[email protected]

A quick bio:
Alexander works as a Senior Consultant at Excella, and has 8+ years of engineering experience from everything from highly regulated industries to fast moving start-ups. His primary focus is web and cloud development, but has always had a sore spot for data and analytics.

Your Talk

Title: Machine Learning made Easy - An Introduction to ML.NET

What your talk is about:
Are you a .NET Developer that always wondered what the hype is about when it comes to AI and ML?
Do you want a chance to get involved in the community and utilize ML algorithms to make your application smarter?

Join this session for a deep dive in to the open source repository of ML.NET!

In the session will touch upon:

• What is ML.NET and how does it benefit you
• ML Basics - looking at supervised vs unsupervised learning and techniques such as binary classification, clustering and multi-class classification
• Working with ML.NET and how you can train your own model and use it in production applications
• Deep learning with ML.NET

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

About You

Your Name: Brittany Walker

Twitter handle (optional): https://twitter.com/musicalwebdev

The best way to reach out to you: Twitter or here in Github

A quick bio: Brittany Walker is a software engineer and avid musical theater fan who loves loves creating fun, quirky projects that will help others learn how to code. She is a Front End Lead for Women Who Code DC, a DC Instructor for Thinkful and Co-Founder of What the CSS?!.

Your Talk

Title: Intro to Git and Github: Make Your First Pull Request 💖

What your talk is about: In this workshop, you will learn about Git and Github, some of the most popular version control tools. We will cover the command line, commonly used Git commands and how you can utilize Git and Github to manage your own projects and to collaborate with others. You will be walked through step-by-step on how to contribute to EmojiScreen, an open-source project created specifically for those wanting more practice using Git and Github.

By the end of this event, everyone will leave with a foundational knowledge of Git and Github and will have made a contribution to a real project!

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

Talk Request

Topic(s):

• Accessibility on the Web
• Screen Reader technology
• 508 compliance

Additional Notes:
Tech Talk DC is looking to host a World Cafe on accessibility technologies. This would run similar to a poster session or a science fair, with multiple stations on different tech or issues within the world of accessibility. Each station would have a short demonstration or presentation that would be given informally to folks wandering around.

What would the ideal length be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)

On Behalf Of

Requesting people or Meetups:
@dctech/techtalkdc
--> @justdroo
--> @jenpen
--> @PatLeong
--> @Kavita-ux

The best way to reach out to them:
Submit a PR to: https://github.com/techtalkdc/Open-Governance
If you have any questions or trouble submitting a PR, please contact [email protected]

Talk Request

Topic(s):
Hear from hiring managers about the skills and personalities they're looking for in their dev teams.

Learn about the interesting projects their dev teams are working on.

Additional Notes:
We are looking for a panelist or 2 to join other startup leaders in DC to discuss what they are looking for when hiring software engineers/developers.

What would the ideal length be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes per panelist
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

On Behalf Of

Requesting people or Meetups:

The best way to reach out to them:

As @aspittel excellently suggested in Slack, it’d be great to get the word out about this to people who are interested in submitting talks — and had thrown out Monday (Jan 21, MLK Day) as a date to get some wind in our sails.

Let’s coordinate! Maybe we can decide how that happens, who plans on publishing it where, and we can share the effort of writing up some blurbs.

About You

Your Name:
Amy Detwiler

Twitter handle (optional):
@duaimei

The best way to reach out to you:
amyd on dctech slack

A quick bio:
I am currently a software engineer at Optoro. We use VueJS and Rails for our product, and this led to my interest in learning Vue Native for mobile app development.

Your Talk

A hands-on introduction to Vue Native.

Title:
Hello Weather: An Introductory Vue Into Mobile App Development

What your talk is about:

Why choose between developing for Android and IOS, when you can develop for both at the same time using nothing more than (essentially) basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript? This workshop will focus on getting a My First App out the door by using the theme of a basic Weather App.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• [ x] 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• [x ] Yes - I have a good idea of what I will be doing, but feedback before the talk would be nice.
• No

About You

Your Name: Sean Killeen

Twitter handle (optional): sjkilleen

The best way to reach out to you: E-mail ([email protected])

A quick bio: Originally from the Philadelphia area, Sean has 15+ years of experience solving problems as an IT professional and developer for commercial, non-profit, and federal clients. He's currently the .NET Specialty Lead at Excella Consulting -- he highly recommends you check them out. He recently served on a modernization project that industry analysts called "more complex than the moon landing". He also servers as a co-trainer for Excella's Agile Testing & Automation and Agile Engineering courses. Aside from loving his work way too much, there's a good chance he's enjoying/stressing about being a new homeowner, sipping great beer, exploring the Arlington area, or singing somewhere. You can find him on Twitter at @sjkilleen or blogging not nearly often enough at SeanKilleen.com. He doesn't bite; say hi!

Your Talk

Title: Serverless is more: Intro to OSS

What your talk is about: A presentation on the “why” of OSS software with an introduction on how to contribute. Aimed at developers newer to OSS or career starters.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

About You

Your Name: Sean Killeen

Twitter handle (optional): sjkilleen

The best way to reach out to you: E-mail ([email protected])

A quick bio: Originally from the Philadelphia area, Sean has 15+ years of experience solving problems as an IT professional and developer for commercial, non-profit, and federal clients. He's currently the .NET Specialty Lead at Excella Consulting -- he highly recommends you check them out. He recently served on a modernization project that industry analysts called "more complex than the moon landing". He also servers as a co-trainer for Excella's Agile Testing & Automation and Agile Engineering courses. Aside from loving his work way too much, there's a good chance he's enjoying/stressing about being a new homeowner, sipping great beer, exploring the Arlington area, or singing somewhere. You can find him on Twitter at @sjkilleen or blogging not nearly often enough at SeanKilleen.com. He doesn't bite; say hi!

Your Talk

Title: Agile Borderlands: Remembering What Agile Forgets

What your talk is about: Agile principles and practices are crucially important to a development organization’s success, but focusing only on agile can still get your team into trouble. In this talk, I speak about the border between agile and other practices such as QA, operational support, and IT service management. We’ll discuss how these additional tools and practices can round out our agility to maximize our success.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

About You

Your Name:
Pumzi

Twitter handle (optional):

The best way to reach out to you:

A quick bio:

Your Talk

Title:
Centering Consumer Privacy & Security in Product Development & Design

What your talk is about:
Are you interested in user centered privacy and security best practices? The goal of this workshop is to introduce and receive feedback from developers, designers, and other technologists on The Digital Standard. The Digital Standard is an open source guideline that Consumer Reports (the organization that is hosting me as a part of my fellowship) uses to test and rate the privacy and security of consumer software, digital platforms and services, and Internet-connected products. Consumer Reports is seeking contributions to the Digital Standard from members of the Tech Community in order to shape, refine, test and improve the standard in order to ensure it is comprehensive, effective, and up-to-date in a rapidly-changing marketplace.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• [ X] No

Talk Request

Topic(s):
Talk should focus on practical applications in the general 4 areas listed below:

• Aspirational
• Front-end
• Back-end
• DevOps

Additional Notes:
Tech Talk DC is hosting a conference focused on "The Whole Developer". We think the audience will be mainly technical, however we are not pigeon-holing ourselves to a specific set of languages. Feel free to bring your language along with you, however, we would appreciate if it’s not at the forefront of your talk. Talking about coding concepts, code architectures and specific language constructs are okay, so long as you can draw a contrast to other concepts, architectures and languages out there, so the audience can walk away with an understanding even if they aren’t familiar with a specific language.

We welcome first-time speakers! Everyone has an important perspective they can share.

What would the ideal length be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

On Behalf Of

Requesting people or Meetups:
@dctech/techtalkdc
--> @justdroo
--> @jenpen
--> @PatLeong
--> @Kavita-ux

The best way to reach out to them:
Call for speakers: Google Form
Information on the Summit itself: Tickets, Schedule, Location Info

About You

Your Name: Sam Brown

Twitter handle (optional): SamuelBrownIV

The best way to reach out to you: [email protected]

A quick bio:

Sam has been working in IT software delivery for the past 17 years as a Java developer, operations manager, startup product architect and Continuous Delivery consultant. Sam is the co-founder and organizer of the DC Continuous Delivery meetup and the founder and organizer of the NOVA Kubernetes meetup. Sam’s passion is helping to optimize the software delivery process to help teams delivery high-quality software applications as quickly as possible through automation. He believes that building software should be enjoyable for the entire team and can only be achieved when a team works effectively together.

Your Talk

Title: Continuous Delivery on Kubernetes with GitOps

What your talk is about:

Will demonstrate a proven Cloud-Native Continuous Delivery approach that takes advantage of open-source tooling, and Kubernetes scalability, to build and deploy cloud-native applications. It will highlight an opinionated, yet flexible approach to integrating all the common continuous delivery tools - that you’re most likely already familiar with - to create a fast, secure and predictable continuous delivery solution for containers on Kubernetes.

• Codified build pipelines with quality ensured at all stages.
• Utilizing “GitOps” to ensure K8s cluster and source repository parity.
• Shift-left security including secure coding checks, dependency scanning and image vulnerability scanning BEFORE deployment(s).
• Scalable build workers providing on-demand pipeline execution with no queueing.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

About You

**Your Name:**Matt Crowder

Twitter handle (optional): https://twitter.com/mcrowder65

The best way to reach out to you: email - [email protected]

A quick bio: Software engineer currently at Walmart labs, passionate about react and javascript, I enjoy teaching javascript, running, and lifting weights.

Your Talk

Title:
react-testing-library
What your talk is about:
If you had to rewrite your tests when writing a hook in your React application, then you're writing tests wrong.

react-testing-library is what it sounds like, but more importantly, it encourages writing tests in the way that your end users will be using your components.

In this talk, I will first introduce react-testing-library, what it is, what it encourages, and what it does best. I'll then dive into how to effectively test a react component, first a smaller component, then a "larger" component with redux, i18n dependencies, etc., then I will show all of the different APIs that react-testing-library provides, and how to effectively use them. Then, I'll show how to write effective tests across an entire application (writing reusable, effective tests that are not brittle).
How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 50 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

About You

Your Name:
John Bafford

Twitter handle (optional):
@jbafford

The best way to reach out to you:
email: john at bafford dot com

A quick bio:
John is a freelance software developer with over 20 years of experience in web, desktop, and mobile app development. He also enjoys long-distance hiking.

Your Talk

Title:
Demystifying Algorithmic Complexity

What your talk is about:
Complexity theory. Big-O. Constant, linear, logarithmic, and quadratic time versus space trade-offs. What does it actually mean when we say a function or an algorithm is efficient? How can we tell if we can do better? Join me, on this tour through a corner of computer science few developers actively think about, and you’ll walk away with a new way of looking at code and thinking about problems.

This talk is language-agnostic.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

Previously Presented
Versions of this talk have been given at php[tek] 2017, Nomad PHP, Midwest PHP 2018, and MidDevCon 2019.

About You

Your Name:
Matt Crowder
Twitter handle (optional):
https://twitter.com/mcrowder65
The best way to reach out to you:
email - [email protected]
A quick bio:
Software engineer currently at Walmart labs, passionate about react and javascript, I enjoy teaching javascript, running, and lifting weights.

Your Talk

Title:
React Hooks
What your talk is about:
Here's the abstract:
First, we'll learn about higher-order-components, and talk about how they're good, and why they're bad.

Then, we'll learn about render props, and talk about how they're good, and why they can end up being bad (in some cases).

Then, we'll learn how to convert "bad" render props/hoc's into easy to read, good code written with hooks.

Then we'll specifically learn about useState, when to use useReducer instead of useState.

Then we'll take a look at a class equivalent useEffect example, then, refactor that using useEffect.

And lastly, we'll learn when/how to use useMemo and useCallback.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 50 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

About You

Wynta Milton

[email protected]

Wynta Milton is a dynamic empowerment speaker who specializes in topics including setting S.M.A.R.T. goals, self-awareness, and self-esteem. She aims to deliver powerful sessions that will cause audience members to leave with the knowledge and skills to be self-efficient and self-aware. Ms. Milton breaks down the basics of establishing S.M.A.R.T. goals, incorporates visual aids into her presentations, and facilitates activities to engage her audience.

Your Talk

Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals: Strategies and Tools for Success

Attendees learn the significance of setting goals that are clear, concise, and measurable, match objectives with personal and professional markers, and develop a system of accountability for meeting goals.

How long will your talk be?

• 30-45 minutes

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• No

About You

Your Name: Sean Killeen

Twitter handle (optional): sjkilleen

The best way to reach out to you: E-mail ([email protected])

A quick bio: Originally from the Philadelphia area, Sean has 15+ years of experience solving problems as an IT professional and developer for commercial, non-profit, and federal clients. He's currently the .NET Specialty Lead at Excella Consulting -- he highly recommends you check them out. He recently served on a modernization project that industry analysts called "more complex than the moon landing". He also servers as a co-trainer for Excella's Agile Testing & Automation and Agile Engineering courses. Aside from loving his work way too much, there's a good chance he's enjoying/stressing about being a new homeowner, sipping great beer, exploring the Arlington area, or singing somewhere. You can find him on Twitter at @sjkilleen or blogging not nearly often enough at SeanKilleen.com. He doesn't bite; say hi!

Your Talk

Title: Modernizing your .NET Application – the Time is Now

What your talk is about: For too long, .NET (and its respective developers) have been seen as a place where good coding practices and modern applications go to die. Why is that? In this session, I’ll talk about the challenges to modernizing a .NET web app, techniques to begin the transformation, and how you as a developer at any place in a team can help instigate this change. We’lll talk about the benefits of modernizing your app, both for your organization and for your development team.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

About You

Your Name: Sean Killeen

Twitter handle (optional): sjkilleen

The best way to reach out to you: E-mail ([email protected])

A quick bio: Originally from the Philadelphia area, Sean has 15+ years of experience solving problems as an IT professional and developer for commercial, non-profit, and federal clients. He's currently the .NET Specialty Lead at Excella Consulting -- he highly recommends you check them out. He recently served on a modernization project that industry analysts called "more complex than the moon landing". He also servers as a co-trainer for Excella's Agile Testing & Automation and Agile Engineering courses. Aside from loving his work way too much, there's a good chance he's enjoying/stressing about being a new homeowner, sipping great beer, exploring the Arlington area, or singing somewhere. You can find him on Twitter at @sjkilleen or blogging not nearly often enough at SeanKilleen.com. He doesn't bite; say hi!

Your Talk

Title: Stretching .NET: A Real-World Introduction to ElasticSearch

What your talk is about: NEST is a fantastic client for the ElasticSearch DB, which has a number of performance advantages and great use cases for solving modern development problems. In this session, you'll learn some background about ElasticSearch for .NET, and will work through a real-world use case for utilizing it in your applications.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

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Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

Talk Request

Topic(s):
Universal validators

Additional Notes:
Anyone with experience writing universal validation methods for form inputs, to be shared between front & back end validation.

Most likely, this could take the form of something like joi: https://www.npmjs.com/package/joi

Though I'd be interested in any approach that people have taken to synchronize front & back end validation, including making all validation requests async.

What would the ideal length be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

On Behalf Of

Requesting people or Meetups:

• Me
• Vue DC
• DCJS

The best way to reach out to them:
Here on GitHub

• @jackkoppa
• @dctech/vuedc
• @dctech/dcjs

About You

Your Name: Dave Aronson

Twitter handle (optional): @davearonson

The best way to reach out to you: email T.Rex-$CURRENT_YEAR at Codosaur.us (sorry not to put it together for you but I get enough spam already thankyouverymuch) -- see https://www.Codosaur.us for other means.

A quick bio:

Dave Aronson is a software development consultant, with about three and a half decades of experience, in a wide variety of languages, techniques, etc. He is the "T. Rex" of Codosaurus, LLC (his one-person company, which is how he got such a cool title). His latest passion project is to perfect and spread his ACRUMEN software quality definition.

On lighter notes, Dave is married, is owned by two cats, and enjoys dark beers, smoky whiskies, visiting foreign countries, playing guitar, and shooting targets.

Your Talk

Title: Kill Evil Mutants!

What your talk is about: intro to mutation testing

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes (plus Q&A, total up to 60 minutes)
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No
• Sort of -- I'm not really an expert on this, or on conference presentations, which this would be practice for.

Other Notes

I'd like to do this at Meetups and get feedback, by mid-June, when I'll be doing it at a conference (NDC Oslo).

About You

Your Name:
Stephen Frost

Twitter handle (optional):
@net_snow

The best way to reach out to you:
[email protected]

A quick bio:
Stephen Frost is Chief Technology Officer for Crunchy Data, a company which provides training, support and consulting for PostgreSQL.

As a PostgreSQL major contributor, Stephen has brought a number of features to PostgreSQL, including the role system, column-level privileges, and row-level security. He has spoken previously at numerous conferences, including pgConf.EU conferences in Amsterdam, Dublin, Vienna, Madrid and others, PostgresOpen in Chicago, Dallas, and San Fancisco, PGConf.BR in Campinas and Sao Paulo, PGConfAPAC in Singapore, FOSSASIA in Singapore, and PGCon in Ottawa.

Your Talk

Title:
Introduction to PostgreSQL

What your talk is about:
Have you heard about PostgreSQL but aren't sure what it is, what it's for, or why you might consider using it? We'll talk about what PostgreSQL is, a bit about the PostgreSQL community, and then go into a discussion of the PostgreSQL architecture and major features, including indexes, foreign data wrappers, security, data types, scalability and more!

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

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• Yes
• No

About You

Your Name: Sean Killeen

Twitter handle (optional): sjkilleen

The best way to reach out to you: E-mail ([email protected])

A quick bio: Originally from the Philadelphia area, Sean has 15+ years of experience solving problems as an IT professional and developer for commercial, non-profit, and federal clients. He's currently the .NET Specialty Lead at Excella Consulting -- he highly recommends you check them out. He recently served on a modernization project that industry analysts called "more complex than the moon landing". He also servers as a co-trainer for Excella's Agile Testing & Automation and Agile Engineering courses. Aside from loving his work way too much, there's a good chance he's enjoying/stressing about being a new homeowner, sipping great beer, exploring the Arlington area, or singing somewhere. You can find him on Twitter at @sjkilleen or blogging not nearly often enough at SeanKilleen.com. He doesn't bite; say hi!

Your Talk

Title: Better Operational Visibility in .NET With Structured Logging

What your talk is about: Too many developers underestimate the power that is hidden away in their logs. In this talk, I will take us through the “why” of structured logging and the basics of how to attain it via Serilog and Seq, with plenty of examples along the way. You’ll learn how to log better, how to search those logs, how to use logs to identify performance issues, and how I once substituted log messages for an entire UI in order to provide business value quickly.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

About You

Your Name: Sean Killeen

Twitter handle (optional): sjkilleen

The best way to reach out to you: E-mail ([email protected])

A quick bio: Originally from the Philadelphia area, Sean has 15+ years of experience solving problems as an IT professional and developer for commercial, non-profit, and federal clients. He's currently the .NET Specialty Lead at Excella Consulting -- he highly recommends you check them out. He recently served on a modernization project that industry analysts called "more complex than the moon landing". He also servers as a co-trainer for Excella's Agile Testing & Automation and Agile Engineering courses. Aside from loving his work way too much, there's a good chance he's enjoying/stressing about being a new homeowner, sipping great beer, exploring the Arlington area, or singing somewhere. You can find him on Twitter at @sjkilleen or blogging not nearly often enough at SeanKilleen.com. He doesn't bite; say hi!

Your Talk

Title: A Better Impact: Using Impact Mapping to Explore Representation at Tech Conferences

What your talk is about: Impact mapping is a powerful technique to orient your team toward achieving outcomes instead of writing features. In this talk, Sean will introduce impact mapping and explain its uses and benefits. To explore this concept, he will use impact mapping to demonstrate a path toward something he is passionate about – more diverse representation at conferences, both for attendees and speakers.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

Talk Request

GraphQL Best practices and how we moved our projects to use GraphQL

Additional Notes:

What would the ideal length be?

• 30-45 minutes

On Behalf Of

Rob Skaggs, Nabeel Zafar

[email protected]

Group request: @dctech/novajs

About You

Your Name:
Lea Berry
Twitter handle (optional):

The best way to reach out to you:
Email
A quick bio:

Lea Berry is a certified Life & Career coach for mission-driven Millennials ready to launch their dream career. She brings a decade of diplomacy, government relations and strategy consulting to her coaching practice and conducts workshops, retreats, group and one on one coaching with individuals, organizations and businesses.
When she isn’t coaching or traveling you can find her taking on a house project in Kensington, MD where she lives with her husband Roger and daughter Mila.

Your Talk

Title:

1. The Pro-Networker's Workshop
2. Everything you need to start branding yourself
   What your talk is about:
   The Pro-Networker's workshop is designed to orient the professional who wants to build a network of professionals who understand their brand and can help them identify leads in the job market.
   Branding is an introduction and step by step of how to create your own brand and what it means to use it online and in person. I walk through creating a branding statement and how to carry this message onto platforms like LinkedIn.
   How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• [ X] 60 minutes or more

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• Yes
• No

About You

Your Name:
John Bafford

Twitter handle (optional):
@jbafford

The best way to reach out to you:
email: john at bafford dot com

A quick bio:
John is a freelance software developer with over 20 years of experience in web, desktop, and mobile app development. He also enjoys long-distance hiking, having hiked over 5,000 miles over the last three years.

Your Talk

Title:
Hiking and Hacking: Two Sides of the Same Coin

What your talk is about:
While hiking the 2,200-mile long Appalachian Trail, I realized that planning and executing a long-distance hike involves many of the same skills and challenges as developing software. In this talk, I’ll join these two disparate worlds you wouldn’t have thought have everything in common.

This talk is a motivational, non-technical talk.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No, but I am open to suggestions on improving the title

Previously Presented
Versions of this talk have been given at php[tek] 2017, the DC PHP meetup, The Joy of Programming meetup, and Django District.

About You

Susan Borke, Principal, BorkeWorks

[email protected]

“If you don’t ask, you don’t get.” Susan Borke first used this simple principle as a financially-strapped college student who needed to find a way to get course credit for an unpaid internship, without paying tuition. It was one of her first successful negotiations and helped to spark her passion for teaching this strategy, and other effective negotiating techniques, to professionals at all stages of their careers. Susan Borke, the Principal of BorkeWorks is passionate about helping people develop as effective negotiators. She believes powerful negotiation skills come from a combination of knowledge, training, and practice. Susan has over 25 years of negotiating and negotiation training experience with domestic and international commercial companies, educational institutions, and nonprofits as a media executive at CBS and in-house counsel at National Geographic. Susan offers training to transform individuals into more effective and successful negotiators. She believes that training should engage participants and offers highly interactive programs that get rave reviews from attendees.

Your Talk

I present on a variety of topics related to effective negotiating. You can find out more at my website (borkeworks.com).

Some popular presentation topics include the Secret Power of Super Negotiators; Communication Skills for Successful Negotiaitons; Leveling Up: Engaging Effectively When Negotiating. All of my presentations are interactive.

How long will your talk be?

• 60 minutes or more provides for the most substance and interactivity. If you want a shorter program, I can certainly work with you; please contact me to discuss your needs.

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• No

About You

Your Name: Sean Killeen

Twitter handle (optional): sjkilleen

The best way to reach out to you: E-mail ([email protected])

A quick bio: Originally from the Philadelphia area, Sean has 15+ years of experience solving problems as an IT professional and developer for commercial, non-profit, and federal clients. He's currently the .NET Specialty Lead at Excella Consulting -- he highly recommends you check them out. He recently served on a modernization project that industry analysts called "more complex than the moon landing". He also servers as a co-trainer for Excella's Agile Testing & Automation and Agile Engineering courses. Aside from loving his work way too much, there's a good chance he's enjoying/stressing about being a new homeowner, sipping great beer, exploring the Arlington area, or singing somewhere. You can find him on Twitter at @sjkilleen or blogging not nearly often enough at SeanKilleen.com. He doesn't bite; say hi!

Your Talk

Title: (Fr)agile: How Agile Falls Apart, and What You Can Do to Hold It All Together

What your talk is about: Attempting to deliver a project and maintain an agile mindset at the same time can feel fraught with peril. Unforeseen circumstances, the challenges of working in team of actual human beings, and organizational inertia act like riptide currents, pulling you away from your delivery, your team’s commitment to agile principles, or both. All is not lost! In this talk, I’ll describe some symptoms of agile dysfunction and their antidotes. We’ll explore some lessons I’ve learned as a technical lead working with agile and “agile” teams, holding it together with duct tape and a little help from my friends.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

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• Yes
• No

About You

Your Name: Josh Finnie

Twitter handle (optional): @joshfinnie

The best way to reach out to you: Twitter or email [email protected]

A quick bio: Senior web developer with start up experience writing code in Python and Javascript

Your Talk

Title: Dockerize your web application

What your talk is about: Going through some best practices I have learned moving our company's micro-service architecture to Docker containers. I feel like this talk would be really good for either a python or javascript based meetup, but I am comfortable talking to any audience.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

About You

Your Name: Sean Killeen

Twitter handle (optional): sjkilleen

The best way to reach out to you: E-mail ([email protected])

A quick bio: Originally from the Philadelphia area, Sean has 15+ years of experience solving problems as an IT professional and developer for commercial, non-profit, and federal clients. He's currently the .NET Specialty Lead at Excella Consulting -- he highly recommends you check them out. He recently served on a modernization project that industry analysts called "more complex than the moon landing". He also servers as a co-trainer for Excella's Agile Testing & Automation and Agile Engineering courses. Aside from loving his work way too much, there's a good chance he's enjoying/stressing about being a new homeowner, sipping great beer, exploring the Arlington area, or singing somewhere. You can find him on Twitter at @sjkilleen or blogging not nearly often enough at SeanKilleen.com. He doesn't bite; say hi!

Your Talk

Title: Level up Your Team with Better Technical Interviews

What your talk is about: Have you ever been in a technical interview, stuck at a whiteboard or solving a brainteaser, and thought “there must be a better way”? Good news: there very much is. Agility and adaptability are crucial for a development team’s success, but how often do we target for agility when considering who to bring into our team? And how do we set expectations for agility from the first time this potential new hire begins evaluating our team? In this talk, I walk through my philosophy & provide practical tips for running technical interviews that are primed for success.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

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• Yes
• No

About You

Your Name: Emmanuel Apau

Twitter handle (optional): @technoGrouch

The best way to reach out to you: Email etapau at gmail

A quick bio: AWS Certified Site Reliability specialist with 9 years of experience developing innovative automation solutions using Devops best practices for clients with Python/Golang. Experience in both the public and private sectors, providing services that engage Agile best practices, scalable cloud architectures, and modern continuous integration & deployment standards.

Your Talk

Title: Application Secret Management in AWS

What your talk is about: Taking advantage of AWS Parameter Store & some automation magic to make secret change management a problem of the past.
We'll talk about:

• Why management of secrets
• Use Cases
• DB Password rotations process
• LastPass vs Parameter Store vs Vault
• OSS Tools

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

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• Yes
• No

@dctech/techtalkdc

About You

Your Name: Sean Killeen

Twitter handle (optional): sjkilleen

The best way to reach out to you: E-mail ([email protected])

A quick bio: Originally from the Philadelphia area, Sean has 15+ years of experience solving problems as an IT professional and developer for commercial, non-profit, and federal clients. He's currently the .NET Specialty Lead at Excella Consulting -- he highly recommends you check them out. He recently served on a modernization project that industry analysts called "more complex than the moon landing". He also servers as a co-trainer for Excella's Agile Testing & Automation and Agile Engineering courses. Aside from loving his work way too much, there's a good chance he's enjoying/stressing about being a new homeowner, sipping great beer, exploring the Arlington area, or singing somewhere. You can find him on Twitter at @sjkilleen or blogging not nearly often enough at SeanKilleen.com. He doesn't bite; say hi!

Your Talk

Title: An Introduction to Graph Databases in .NET with Neo4j

What your talk is about: Modern .NET development shops are fast discovering that tables & rows aren’t the only way to store data. In this talk, I introduce .NET developers to the advantages of graph databases using Neo4j. You’ll learn how graph databases differ from traditional SQL DBs, when it makes sense to use a graph database, and what the advantages are. We’ll also work through an example project to get a feel for some of the concepts, and sprinkle in a littler Docker goodness for some added fun.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

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• Yes
• No

About You

Your Name: Casey Watts

Twitter handle (optional): @kyloma

The best way to reach out to you: DCTech Slack chat @caseywatts

A quick bio:
"Casey Watts!" never leaves home without bubbles. His super-power is empathy and helping others become more empathetic. He has a background both in psychology and in software development, making him well prepared to discuss psychology with developers. He studied neurobiology at Yale University, and he co-published a few neurobiology papers.

Your Talk

"A Neurobiologist's Guide" contains two halves: "Debugging Your Brain" and "Team Empowerment". These two parts build on each other a lot, and they're best presented together. The two can be split apart, but a lot of crossover is lost. Casey has given this talk 16+ times at meetups, conferences, and companies; it's pretty polished at this point ✨

Title:
"A Neurobiologist’s Guide" (part A+B, 50 min)
or
"A Neurobiologist’s Guide to Debugging Your Brain" (part A, 25 min)
or
"A Neurobiologist’s Guide to Team Empowerment" (part B, 25 min)

What your talk is about:
A useful-psychology double-whammy: (A) Developers are great systems thinkers. Surprise: your brain is a system too! Reframe frustration into accomplishment, and become a more effective and bubbly person using a frontal cortex feedback loop. (B) Want your team to be the happiest, most productive team around? Recent psychology research reveals one key attribute of the most successful teams, and it's within your influence.

How long will your talk be?
I can do this talk a short form in 25 minutes, or a longer form in 50 minutes (see above).

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

About You

Your Name: Sean Killeen

Twitter handle (optional): sjkilleen

The best way to reach out to you: E-mail ([email protected])

A quick bio: Originally from the Philadelphia area, Sean has 15+ years of experience solving problems as an IT professional and developer for commercial, non-profit, and federal clients. He's currently the .NET Specialty Lead at Excella Consulting -- he highly recommends you check them out. He recently served on a modernization project that industry analysts called "more complex than the moon landing". He also servers as a co-trainer for Excella's Agile Testing & Automation and Agile Engineering courses. Aside from loving his work way too much, there's a good chance he's enjoying/stressing about being a new homeowner, sipping great beer, exploring the Arlington area, or singing somewhere. You can find him on Twitter at @sjkilleen or blogging not nearly often enough at SeanKilleen.com. He doesn't bite; say hi!

Your Talk

Title: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Feedback Loops

What your talk is about: Several topics dominate the landscape of modern software delivery – agile principles & practices, DevOps, Continuous Integration & Deployment, automated testing & test-driven development. Central to all of these is the idea of feedback loops. In this talk, I will work through the essence of feedback loops, and the myriad ways that seeking & targeting smaller feedback loops can benefit your team & your organization in its pursuit of agility and excellence.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No

Talk Request

QA Essentials: How to find bugs effectively and efficiently

Additional Notes:

What would the ideal length be?

• 30-45 minutes

On Behalf Of

Ladan Sedhegi, Laya Abutin:

[email protected]

Group request:
@WomenWhoCode

About You

Your Name: Sean Killeen

Twitter handle (optional): sjkilleen

The best way to reach out to you: E-mail ([email protected])

A quick bio: Originally from the Philadelphia area, Sean has 15+ years of experience solving problems as an IT professional and developer for commercial, non-profit, and federal clients. He's currently the .NET Specialty Lead at Excella Consulting -- he highly recommends you check them out. He recently served on a modernization project that industry analysts called "more complex than the moon landing". He also servers as a co-trainer for Excella's Agile Testing & Automation and Agile Engineering courses. Aside from loving his work way too much, there's a good chance he's enjoying/stressing about being a new homeowner, sipping great beer, exploring the Arlington area, or singing somewhere. You can find him on Twitter at @sjkilleen or blogging not nearly often enough at SeanKilleen.com. He doesn't bite; say hi!

Your Talk

Title: Serverless is more: An Introduction to Azure Functions

What your talk is about: In this session, I walk through how to use Azure Functions and Azure Key Vault to create a system to continually share my RSS subscriptions with the world. Follow along as we discuss concepts of serverless computing, build a functional application, an marvel at all the things we didn’t have to do.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

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• Yes
• No

About You

Your Name: Marian Lumba

Twitter handle (optional): mmlumba

The best way to reach out to you: Twitter (see above) and email ([email protected])

A quick bio: Marian is a front end developer who likes to use new technologies to solve existing problems. Her tools of choice include React, GraphQL, and Node.JS. She builds JavaScript apps with Demosphere, a company that provides tech solutions for sports organizations. In her spare time she is an event organizer for Women Who Code, a kickboxer, and a D.C. restaurant explorer.

Your Talk

Title: Introduction to GraphQL

What your talk is about: This talk briefly addresses the following questions: What is GraphQL? How is it different from REST? How can you use it with an existing data set?

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

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• Yes
• No

Talk Request

Topic(s): Overcoming the Need to Please - Getting your first Software Engineering role after dropping out of college* (A practical guide to networking)

Additional Notes:
This will be a networking and job strategy talk by a first generation Asian-Am with immigrant parents that emphasized traditional higher education

Bio: Steve Chen is a Software Engineer in Test at Framebridge. He currently works mainly with Ruby to build tests, processes, and documentation across distributed teams/systems for a hyper-growth custom framing startup. He also moonlights as a Product Manager on Booster. His resume includes Frontend work with React at GrubHub, on-demand delivery jobs, freelancing, and 3to5something startups.

He's also hosted/organized meetups such as DCJS, NodeSchool, and DC Code & Coffee. In his spare time, you can see him zipping around on his electric skateboard, fly fishing in MD, or at your local DC meetup!

*he did rejoin shortly after getting his first tech job to finish his senior year at University of Maryland for a BS in Information Systems Management. The first in his family to receive a degree

What would the ideal length be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes

On Behalf Of

Requesting people or Meetups:
Bootcamp Grads!

The best way to reach out to them:
Ideally [email protected] or @Steve chen on dctech.chat Slack

About You

Your Name: Satvik Pendem

Twitter handle (optional): https://twitter.com/satvikpendem

The best way to reach out to you: Email at satvik dot pendem at gmail.com

A quick bio: Hi, I currently work for a large company in DC doing primarily machine learning work. I also work on the side doing web dev side projects and consulting for startups and other companies.

Your Talk

Title: Interactive SVG Animations using CSS

What your talk is about: The talk will be about how to use SVGs in your website and webapp and animate them with only CSS, no external libraries such as GSAP (which are good but can be heavy for simple animations). As well, the talk will also show how to embed interactivity within SVGs while also using pure CSS, and perhaps minimal JS.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

Meta

Do you need help crafting your talk?

• Yes
• No