Monthly Presentation Night

Join us at our monthly gathering where we present topics of interest to Rubyists and aspiring programmers.

Doors open at 5:30pm, where you can hangout and socialize with other Boulder Ruby members. We have food and beverages available to add to the enjoyment.

At 6:30, we do announcements before getting to our presentations.

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Talk 1: Hacking Stacks by Tim Kleier from ASRC Federal

Description: Do you remember the immense challenge of learning to code? Feel inept after learning one language or framework only to have no clue what you're doing in a new one? Committing to continual learning in jumping from stack to stack is not for the faint of heart, but the risk does come with a reward.

In our time together talking about Hacking Stacks, Tim will briefly share his journey beginning in Ruby on Rails development and leading through mobile app development and across various web stacks. We'll explore some common tech stacks and their similarities and differences, and get a sense for their usefulness in solving various software problems. Together, we'll discover and discuss insights from working in various tech stacks.

Bio: Tim is a systems architect at ASRC Federal in Fort Collins, a company that manages software applications for the USDA's conservation service. He works with code and coders during the day, and at night you'll find him hanging with his wife and four kids, running or biking, or entrepreneuring.

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Talk 2: Modern interviewing panel

Description: Interviewing can be hard. We found three senior developers who have interviewed as both candidates and company representatives. They'll be taking questions on this topic.

Panel member bios:

Paul Christopher is a software engineer at Google in Boulder working on the Payments team. Before that he worked in Lakewood for a small startup doing firmware and driver development for a hardware product.

Patrick Armentrout is a Software Engineering Manager with about 10 years experience, most of which in web development. He is currently at HomeAdvisor in Denver, spinning up a new team that will focus on customized housing experiences. Prior to HomeAdvisor, Patrick worked at other Colorado-based companies such as Trimble and Kiosk Information Systems.

Brooke Kuhlmann is dedicated to the craft of software engineering and is the founder of the Alchemists collective which is in the early stages of gathering software engineers sharing discussions/learnings that support the craft of high quality, ethical, and secure software.

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If you would like to present at this meeting, or at upcoming events, reach out to the organizers on this meetup or ping us at @boulderruby (https://twitter.com/boulderruby) on Twitter.