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Do you wish as engineers you had more insight into creative problem solving, prioritizing your day, and what misconceptions we have around Site Reliability Engineering? Join us for our next panel discussions on these topics and please feel free to participate as you’re comfortable.

This time, each speaker will be giving their talk in their own Breakout Room. You can hop on over to the other breakout rooms in the order you’re most interested in hearing the talks!

Special thanks to Sae Yi, Senior Software Engineer at PartnerStack who has helped us plan, coordinate, and design this event from start to finish!

📝TALK DETAILS 📝

How to Prep and Consume the Organize Tomorrow Today Kool-Aid

  • Althea Yi

Organize Tomorrow Today (OTT) by Dr. Jason Selk and Tom Bartow is just one of many self-help books, but it’s the only one that has proven to be sticky. In a time where the boundaries between personal life and work life have become extremely blurred, the OTT process has helped me to tackle all kinds of tasks that have been sitting on my back-burner for months in a manageable, actionable way. I will share the process and we can try it together in the optional workshop portion of this talk.

How to Get Started with Site Reliability Engineering

  • Andrew Kirkpatrick

Many companies are looking for "DevOps'' in many forms, but what kind of skills or experiences are actually needed? I’ll debunk some of the myths surrounding what recruiters or internet lurkers might tell you and find out if you might actually have an aptitude for Site Reliability or Infrastructure Engineering. If so, what might be good knowledge areas to get started with? And if learning leads to an interview, what might that look like?

Rethinking Software Development as a Creative Role

  • Katia Vasilyeva

Do you ever feel stuck trying to think through a problem? As software developers, we’re tackling new and different problems every day and unleashing our creative side can help us be more innovative in our solutions, especially whenever we feel stuck. In this talk, I wanted to demonstrate a key takeaway: creativity is a process and not a personality trait. It can help us in our everyday lives as developers and we can all start practising it through a few simple methods.

📆SCHEDULE 📆

6:00 PM - 6:10 PM: Introductions
6:10 PM - 6:25 PM: Session 1 (Each Breakout Room)
6:30 PM - 7:45 PM: Session 2 (Each Breakout Room)
7:50 PM - 8:05 PM: Session 3 (Each Breakout Room)
8:05 PM - 8:10 PM: Closing Remarks (Each Breakout Room)

📢YOUR SPEAKERS 📢

Althea Yi 👋
Software Engineer at PartnerStack

Althea is a jack-of-all-trades who likes to dabble in everything from painting to skateboarding to whatever else in between. She works as a back-end developer at PartnerStack, but has recently been dipping her toes back into the front-end (Vue). Taking a page out of her background as a French linguist, her next pet project will be to potentially start tackling translation/internationalization.

Andrew Kirkpatrick 👋
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at PartnerStack

Developer and DevOps enthusiast from the middle of England. Built infrastructure for web applications from pre-VMs through VMWare/Xen/Hyper-V through to AWS and GCP, albeit often haphazardly amidst a variety of automation. Bedroom DJ, avid cyclist and tea drinker.

Katia Vasilyeva 👋
Senior Software Engineer at PartnerStack

Katia has a background in Environmental Geography and is an aspiring ecological gardener with the hopes of one day living on a sustainable farm. At PartnerStack, she enjoys working on all aspects of front-end code and collaborating across different teams to improve user experience. When not cooking up garden plans or thinking about front-end code, she can be found hiking with her dog or chasing her two kittens off the kitchen counter.

🔦YOUR FACILITATORS 🔦

Bhavana Srinivas 👋
Nathalia Silva 👋
Nahrin Jalal 👋
Sae Yi, Senior Software Engineer at PartnerStack 👋
Stella Kim 👋

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