Category: Speaker Q&A

SESSION: MICRO FRONTEND: THE MICROSERVICE PUZZLE EXTENDED TO FRONTEND Can you tell us a bit about your background and how you got into software? I’m a full stack developer (yep, I love both Java and Javascript. Can happen to anyone.) working for Saagie, a French startup. I’m also Devoxx4Kids France leader, member of Devoxx France volunteers’ […]

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SESSION: BUILDING DATABASES FROM UNSTRUCTURED TEXT WITH NLP Dan is an independent Big Data Technical Architect. He has led the development of a Hadoop-as-a-Service offering and built software streaming frameworks long before the rise of Apache Spark and Storm. He’s well versed in the knowledge domain building applications on RDF and SPARQL collapsing many systems of information […]

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SESSION: PUTTING THE SPARK IN FUNCTIONAL FASHION TECH ANALYTICS I’m a Data Engineer at Metail where I’ve worked for 6 years. Over the last 4 years I’ve been part of the team first building and then keeping Metail’s data analytics pipeline up-to-date and able to meet our changing demands. This has meant deciding where to keep […]

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SESSION: 7 SERVERLESS RECIPES FOR BIG DATA ARCHITECTURES Blanca Garcia Gil is a senior software engineer at BBC. Her current work is focused on highly scalable big data pipelines. She is very interested in automation (testing and deployment) and observability. While having spent most of her time as a Java developer she’s also enjoys tinkering with […]

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SESSION: SAIL IN THE CLOUD – AN INTRO TO ISTIO Alex works for Red Hat, Inc. Alex is a Software Engineer at Red Hat in Developers group. He is a passionate about Java world, software automation and he believes in the open source software model. Alex is the creator of NoSQLUnit project, member of JSR374 […]

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SESSION: THE QUANTUM COMPUTERS ARE COMING   Alasdair works for Senacor Technologies AG A professional software developer by day, a nerd… Well, all the time, really. I love programming, I also love talking and thinking about programming. I’m fascinated by the culture surrounding programming and I immerse myself in that culture. And I like sharing […]

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