Lunch&&Learn: Building the World’s Largest Bluetooth Location Finding Community

Join Devhub Vancouver for their weekly series of Lunch&&Learns-- casual one-hour seminars with varying topics targeted at developers. Why not use your lunch break to learn something new?

This week's Lunch&&Learn topic is presented by Jossie Haines, Platform Engineering Director at Tile (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jossiemann/).

Jossie Haines will explain how we built a secure location finding network that supports 1.5 billion unique location updates per day. This is the world’s largest lost and found community spanning over 230 countries and territories and locating more than 3 million unique items every day.

In this talk, we will cover the whole stack from building a secure Bluetooth transport layer to developing a scalable backend service on AWS.

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About Jossie:

Jossie Haines instantly became fascinated with technology when she was given a Commodore 64 for Christmas at age 5. For the last 19 years, she’s worked as a software engineer, tech lead, and engineering leader at a forefront of emerging technology across Silicon Valley, including engineering manager for the Siri Media Domains at Apple, and both Principal Software Engineer and Director of Engineering at Zynga for a variety of teams. She is currently the Platform Engineering Director at Tile, where she is integrating the Tile technology into the 5 billion Bluetooth devices released next year. She is also an advocate for women in the tech industry and has mentored at Girls Who Code and Technovations. She led 4 teams to create applications that helped their communities. Jossie ran Women at Siri, and leads the Women at Tile employee resource group, and mentorship program. The initial run of the mentorship program empowered 29 pairs of employees at Tile to develop their careers. She co-founded a podcast named Retaining WIT that focuses on the challenges with keeping women in technology.

About Devhub:

Devhub is Canada’s first full-out community space for developers of all levels. A place where members can work, learn, and teach, whether they’ve been coding for two decades or ten weeks. It’s a space that connects developers with community, mentorship, and a unique co-working environment, all programmed for their needs and growth.
->http://devhub.ca

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PLEASE BYOL (Bring your own lunch):
At Devhub we aim to provide developers with free quality events and resources, so are unable to provide lunch for everyone.

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