Functional .NET Programming with F#

About the Presentation: Alan Barr will discuss a strongly typed multi-paradigm, but primarily functional, programming language that runs on Microsoft .NET technologies. F# is strongly influenced by the ML family of functional languages but it is aimed at being a great .NET functional language. F# is a wonderful language and an excellent way to be exposed to functional programming, domain modeling, and continue to access a broad suite of libraries from .NET. Alan will discuss the history of F#, the Software Foundation, many of the core concepts and data structures that come with the language, developer tooling options, VSCode Ionide and Visual Studio, and various frameworks and utilities such as Giraffe, Saturn web frameworks, Fable F# to JavaScript compiler, and the Interactive REPL. The talk will contain live demonstrations of the language concepts and frameworks mentioned. This talk will touch on challenges the language faces in broader adoption.

About the Presenter: Alan Barr is a Technical Product Manager at Veterans United. He has worked in a variety of roles as a Software Developer, Quality Assurance Engineer, Quality Assurance Architect and now a product manager of the internal software platform. The majority of Alan's experience is in web marketing companies and now VA mortgages. He fell into the world of technology unexpectedly after teaching English in South Korea. From that point he had the opportunity to work on impactful products such as a Content Management System that hosted 10000 Veterinarian, Chiropractic, and small business marketing websites all with PHP and MySQL. As well as an innovative CMS platform called Blueprint that runs many automotive dealership and inventory websites such as Jaguar/Land Rover and niche marketing websites on AWS with CouchDB, Elastic Search and PHP. Alan now focuses on enabling a variety of initiatives such as microservice orchestration, data lake, and data streaming and flow technologies at Veterans United Home Loans. In his spare time, he loves spending time with his wife hiking Columbia's wide assortment of nature areas and trails.

Food will be sponsored by Veterans United Home Loans.