Panel: Building Microservices in Node

We’ll be discussing serverless JavaScript and why companies have made the shift to Microservices, the pros and cons of switching to Node from Rails or Java or .NET backend, and the pros and cons of microservices in general.

WHAT: Tech Panel around microservices, serverless javascript, and Node
WHEN: Thursday, July 11th | 6:00-8:00PM
WHERE: Make Offices at 1 North State Street

This panel will be moderated by Laura Schornack.

Laura Schornack is a JPMorgan Chase expert engineer and lead design architect for shared services. Previously, she worked for world-renowned organizations such as IBM and Nokia. She holds a degree in computer science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Panelists:

Adam Finlayson:
Adam is a senior developer at CardX, a payment technology company offering solutions for zero-cost credit card acceptance. The CardX team is building their next-generation platform using Node.js in the AWS ecosystem, with a backend primarily driven by API Gateway endpoints and Lambda functions. Prior to joining CardX, Adam spent 15+ years developing web applications in higher education using PHP, JavaScript, and related technologies.

Ryan Booth
Ryan is the VP of Engineering at StratEx. He has over 12 years of experience building world-class software products, and software engineering organizations. He has repeatedly transformed teams and technology from quarterly releases to daily production deployments, static on-premise data centers to dynamic cloud environments, monolithic systems to scalable service based architectures, and stagnant cultures to centers of innovation and creativity.

He has significant expertise in SaaS, Cloud, Modernization, Continuous Delivery, Agile Transformations, AWS, Azure, Serverless Architecture, Service Based Architecture, Event Driven Systems, Test Automation, .NET, and Node.js

Collin Peterson
Collin is a software engineer and manager at STATS, the world’s leading sports data and AI company. His engineering teams are creating sports betting predictions and performing in-game NLG, working heavily with AWS and Spark. Prior to joining STATS, Collin was a VP at JPMorgan Chase, where he built their Commercial Bank’s wholesale lending collateral system, including a transition to microservices. Collin has his BS in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Michigan.