GCP Meetup at Google

We are happy to announce this meetup hosted by Google.

Agenda:

17.30 - Doors opens, food and drinks
18.00 - Welcome
18.15 - Talk 1: Save time and money - moving from persistent to ephemeral data processing. By James Malone and Apurva Desai

James is a Product Manager in Google Cloud Platform. He works with teams to combine the power of open source tools, such as Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop, with the strengths of Google Cloud Platform so customers can use these popular tools quickly, easily, and cost-effectively. Before joining Google, James worked on data-related products for Disney and Amazon. He is based in Seattle, Washington and beyond data has passions for Legos, dinosaurs, and running.

Apurva is an Engineering Director working on the Google Cloud Platform. He manages Cloud Dataproc, Cloud Composer and Cloud Dataprep products. Before joining Google, Apurva worked on building Pivotal Software's Hadoop distribution. Prior to Pivotal Software, Apurva worked at Yahoo for 6 yrs in the search, advertising, and Hadoop teams. He is based in Sunnyvale and beyond big data, cloud, loves long distance bike rides, and hiking.

19.00 Short break
19.15 - Talk 2: Get your house in order: how we started orchestrating our workflows with Apache Airflow (by Marcus Olsson and Guillermo Rodríguez Cano)

We will showcase how we harmonised and automatised some of the processes and routines at Bonnier Broadcasting with Apache Airflow and the Google Cloud Platform.

Marcus is software engineer at Bonnier Broadcasting. He builds and operates the streaming platform for video tracking on top of Google Kubernetes Engine. He also organizes Go meetups and trains aspiring Go developers. On late nights, he draws gophers and impulse buys mechanical keyboards.

Guillermo is data scientist and ai engineer at Bonnier Broadcasting. With his co-workers, he helps designing and developing machine learning models to further enable the data-driven decision making. He is also affiliated to the Theoretical Computer Science group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology where he researches on privacy and security in large-scale decentralised systems. When he is not riding his bike, he is probably lifting iron at the gym.

20.00: Networking/Discussions