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Google Developer Group (GDG) Capital Region

Albany, NY

1,925 members · Public group

Organized by Jason Rotella and 5 others

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What we’re about

GDG stands for Google Developers Groups and is a platform offered by Google Developers to support community-run developer groups.
We are software developers, designers, educators and students with an interest in learning about emergent technologies in areas including mobile, web, wearables, cloud-native computing, education technology, data sciences and smart homes.

GDG Capital Region events will be a mixture of tech talks/demos that explore, for example, concepts and best practices, and hands-on hacking sessions that involve coding and collaboration. We also host flagship 'Extended' and 'DevFest' events. Please consider following us on Twitter.
To multiply the impact, we partner with leaders in the local and regional business and technical communities, as well as Google Developers.
Our talks may feature Google-developed technology but will also extend to other technologies, products and platforms as well. Focus is on collaborative communities and exciting technology that our developers can get their hands dirty with.
The overall primary goals of GDG Capital Region are to create networking, collaboration and entrepreneurial connections for technology enthusiasts in Albany, Troy, Saratoga, Schenectady and the entire Capital Region. If this fits, come check us out.
GDG Capital Region is an independent group; our activities and the opinions expressed here should in no way be linked to Google, the corporation. To learn more about the GDG program, please visit: https://developers.google.com/groups

Upcoming events (4+)

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Wed, Oct 4, 2023, 8:00 PM EDTRoad to Certification: Professional Cloud Architect (Office Hours #3)
Needs location
RSVP: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-lawrence-presents-road-to-certification-professional-cloud-architect-office-hours-3/cohost-gdg-capital-region

During Office Hours, we will review exam questions, get people unblocked on their labs and review what’s been covered so far in the material. This is an informal session and not mandatory for qualifying for a voucher at the end of the series.

Agenda
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Hosted By
Roman Jaquez, GDG Organizer
Flutter GDE, Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect, Software Engineer, Mobile Developer, Web Guru, Javascript Ninja, AR/VR Enthusiast
Kevin Quan, GDG Organizer
Kevin Quan has over 20+ years of software development experience in medical devices, computer telephony, networking, and personal computer fields at Fortune 500 companies, and startup companies. He poses strengths in software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies, and software architecture. He co-architected and led the user interface (UI) design and development for complex medical analytical software. Kevin has experience in agile software development environments such as Scrum. Kevin is a self-motivator who constantly seeks new knowledge and skill, and he quickly applied them into his daily work.
Specialties: Software Architecture and Design, Agile Software Development, Project Management and Soft Skills.
1 attendee
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Wed, Oct 11, 2023, 8:00 PM EDTRoad to Certification: Professional Cloud Architect (Session 4)
Needs location
RSVP: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-lawrence-presents-road-to-certification-professional-cloud-architect-session-4/cohost-gdg-capital-region

This is Session #4 on the Road To Certification (RTC) Professional Cloud Architect (PCA) Series, where we will review the following:

Reliable Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process

Agenda
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Hosted By
Roman Jaquez, GDG Organizer
Flutter GDE, Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect, Software Engineer, Mobile Developer, Web Guru, Javascript Ninja, AR/VR Enthusiast
Kevin Quan, GDG Organizer
Kevin Quan has over 20+ years of software development experience in medical devices, computer telephony, networking, and personal computer fields at Fortune 500 companies, and startup companies. He poses strengths in software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies, and software architecture. He co-architected and led the user interface (UI) design and development for complex medical analytical software. Kevin has experience in agile software development environments such as Scrum. Kevin is a self-motivator who constantly seeks new knowledge and skill, and he quickly applied them into his daily work.
Specialties: Software Architecture and Design, Agile Software Development, Project Management and Soft Skills.
1 attendee
Not open
Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 8:00 PM EDT Road to Certification: Professional Cloud Architect (Office Hours #4)
Needs location
RSVP: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-lawrence-presents-road-to-certification-professional-cloud-architect-office-hours-4/cohost-gdg-capital-region

During Office Hours, we will review exam questions, get people unblocked on their labs and review what’s been covered so far in the material. This is an informal session and not mandatory for qualifying for a voucher at the end of the series.

Agenda
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Hosted By
Roman Jaquez, GDG Organizer
Flutter GDE, Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect, Software Engineer, Mobile Developer, Web Guru, Javascript Ninja, AR/VR Enthusiast
Kevin Quan, GDG Organizer
Kevin Quan has over 20+ years of software development experience in medical devices, computer telephony, networking, and personal computer fields at Fortune 500 companies, and startup companies. He poses strengths in software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies, and software architecture. He co-architected and led the user interface (UI) design and development for complex medical analytical software. Kevin has experience in agile software development environments such as Scrum. Kevin is a self-motivator who constantly seeks new knowledge and skill, and he quickly applied them into his daily work.
Specialties: Software Architecture and Design, Agile Software Development, Project Management and Soft Skills.
1 attendee
Not open
Wed, Oct 25, 2023, 9:30 PM UTCEric Smalling: Why Should Developers Care About Container Security?
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RSVP: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-southlake-presents-gdg-cloud-southlake-27-eric-smalling-why-should-developers-care-about-container-security/cohost-gdg-capital-region

Container scanning tools, industry publications, and application security experts constantly tell us about best practices for how to build our images and run our containers. Can't we just rely on Operations or Security teams to catch vulnerabilities? Why Should Developers Care About Container Security?

Title: Why should developers care about container security?

Abstract: Container scanning tools, industry publications, and application security experts are constantly telling us about best practices for how to build our images and run our containers.

Often these non-functional requirements seem abstract and are not described well enough for those of us that don’t have an appsec background to fully understand why they are important.

In this session, we will go over several of the most common practices, show examples of how your workloads can be exploited if not followed and, most importantly, how to easily find and fix your Dockerfiles and deployment manifests (i.e. Kubernetes config's) before you commit your code.

Speaker: Eric is a 30+ year enterprise software developer, architect, and consultant with a focus on CI/CD, DevOps, and container-based solutions over the last decade. He is a Docker Captain, is certified in Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD, CKS), and has been a Docker user since 2013. As a Senior Developer Advocate at Snyk, Eric helps developers implement proactive and scalable security practices with a focus on container and cloud-native technologies.

Agenda

5:30 PM: Welcome!

5:35 PM: Speakers + Q&A

6:30 PM: Break (5 minutes)

6:35 PM: (Optional) Virtual Networking

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Speaker
Eric Smalling - Snyk, Senior Developer Advocate
Eric is a 30+ year enterprise software developer, architect, and consultant with a focus on CI/CD, DevOps, and container-based solutions over the last decade. He is a Docker Captain, is certified in Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD, CKS), and has been a Docker user since 2013. As a Senior Developer Advocate at Snyk, Eric helps developers implement proactive and scalable security practices with a focus on container and cloud-native technologies.

Hosts
James Anderson - Sabre (Sr. Director, Enterprise Architecture)
AWS and Google Cloud Certified Solutions Architect - Professional and Azure certified. Sr. Director of Enterprise Architecture @ Sabre helping lead the company and the travel industry into the future. Cloud instructor helping tech newbies transition careers.

Yujun Liang - Accenture (Associate Director)
Yujun is an Associate Director at Accenture. He started his Google Cloud journey in 2017 and had been on many challenging projects including leading roles on some of them. His expertise spans Cloud Infrastructure and Data analytics. Currently, Yujun works as the cloud architect on a Data Analytics Platform and helps the team remove roadblocks in networking and security.
He is also known…

RSVP: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-southlake-presents-gdg-cloud-southlake-27-eric-smalling-why-should-developers-care-about-container-security/cohost-gdg-capital-region
2 attendees
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