An Evening at TD Bank: Women Engineering the Future

Are you an Intermediate or Senior Engineer, experienced and passionate about automation, reliability, scalability and continuous delivery/continuous deployment? If you answered yes, join us for a special evening at TD where you'll learn about the key role women have in building our new Engineering capabilities and how they're helping to shape the future of banking!

You will gain:
• Valuable insights from Alexandra Sunderland during her Tech Talk "Bringing Back Dial-Up: The Internet Over SMS"
• The opportunity to collaborate with fellow engineers while working on coding puzzles that will be key in helping you prepare for your next interview
• A walk-through of a sample solution to deepen your knowledge and maybe share new tricks!**
• An open networking session with our executives, technical and Talent Acquisition teams, giving you the chance to socialize in a safe and welcoming environment while energizing with delicious appetizers!

**This is an interactive workshop. Please bring a laptop and power supply.

🌎LOCATION🌎
120 Bremner Blvd, Floor 31
TD’s office is a 10 minute walk from Union station

👋SIGN-IN PROCESS👋
You will be asked to provide your first and last name for security purposes upon registration to issue you a name badge. We will be serving refreshments and appetizers as we welcome you. For this reason, we encourage your +1’s to RSVP to this event here directly.
Please note that doors may close by 7pm and we cannot guarantee entrance afterwards. See you soon!

📆SCHEDULE📆
5:30 PM – 6:00 PM: Sign-In & Networking
6:00 PM – 6:10 PM: TD Introduction & Welcome
6:10 PM – 6:25 PM: Tech Talk by Alexandra Sunderland
6:25 PM – 7:15 PM: Brain Teaser Challenge ("Acing Coding Puzzles")
7:15 PM – 7:30 PM: Brain Teaser solution, Q&A and Closing Remarks
7:30 PM – 8:00 PM: Networking

📢DETAILS📢

Kirsti Racine
(VP Architecture at TD)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstiracine/
Kirsti is a Technical Executive with a consistent track record for delivery within the financial services sector. This includes extensive experience with leading teams for multiple customers in an effort to build new platforms.
In her current role as Vice President, Technology Solutions for Channels and Canadian Banking Architecture at TD, Kirsti provides technical oversight across a portfolio of programs, focusing on delivering value for customers and the solution architecture for the channels. Kirsti's specialties include Wealth Management and Retail Banking.

In listening to Kirsti's introduction, attendees will learn how TD is leveraging new engineering capabilities enterprise-wide to automate, build highly reliable applications and break down silos to build the bank of the future.
Moreover, Kirsti will provide insight into the exciting journey TD has embarked on – one that sees the organization changing its mindset and business model from that of a financial institution, to one that is engineering-driven with a relevant financial service offering.

Alexandra Sunderland
(Engineering Fellow at Fellow.app)
Alexandra is a full-stack software engineer at Fellow.app where she's helping to build the future of work. In her spare time, Alexandra designs and sews clothes while incorporating tech by 3D printing custom elements and programming sewing machines.

Tech Talk: "Bringing back dial-up: the internet over SMS"
Traveling to another country? You probably had to pay an arm and a leg for a data roaming package on your phone -- on top of the already incredibly expensive phone plans, we have in Canada. But there’s a better way! What if I told you that you could stay connected to the internet with a phone that can only send and receive text messages?

In this talk we'll:
• Walk through building our own browser that makes all requests over SMS, so that next time you can forget about that fancy data package.
• Talk about Node.js, Android/Java, and Twilio's API