DevFest Fresno Christmas Edition

Agenda:

12:30-1:30 Shashank Kapadia - Ethics in AI: Balancing Personalization and Privacy in Recommendation Systems

1:30-2:30 Vinit Dhatrak - Revolutionizing Storage @ Docusign: From Petabytes to Intelligence

break

2:45-3:45 Ahsen Baig - Cloud CDK with GitHub CI/CD: Secure Secrets Management and Reusable Workflows

3:45-4:15 Closing remarks by Roy Tiborcio from Google!

4:15-5:00 Raffle and Socialization

The parking: during the weekend the parking should be free on campus. The closest parking lots to the Science II building are the P6 and the P15. Here are satellite and schematic maps about the parking lot, the Room 109 (red rectangle) and how you'd approach:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K6ibMCnIW7g7GNAr2NMVvrvdcwQwSuyt/view?usp=drive_link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jU-99OM8rwtJS6H23YlL94VADr0CB_ju/view?usp=drive_link 

We plan to provide snacks, but lunch won't be part of the event.

Agenda

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Speakers

Vinit Dhatrak - DocuSign (Lead Software Engineer)

Vinit is a seasoned software engineer with a demonstrated history of building on-premise and cloud-native distributed systems at scale. Currently, Vinit serves as a Lead Software Engineer at DocuSign, contributing to the Docusign's Storage team. With expertise encompassing cloud storage, distributed systems, and virtualization technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, and the Linux Kernel, Vini…

Shashank Kapadia - Walmart (Machine Learning Engineer)

Shashank Kapadia is a machine learning engineering leader specializing in large-scale AI solutions that drive measurable improvements in user engagement and business outcomes. With over a decade of hands-on experience at global organizations like Walmart, Randstad, and Monster Worldwide, he has pioneered cutting-edge ML solutions—optimizing revenue, boosting engagement, and streamlining decisi…

Ahsen Baig - College of (Cloud Application Engineer)

Experienced Development, Senior Programmer with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Full Stack Web developer with strong engineering professional skilled in Windows, Linux and other OS, Databases (MSSQL, Oracle, etc.), Data Warehousing (SSIS), Educational Technology and many more.

Roy Tiburcio - Google (Staff Software Engineer/TL at Google)

Roy Tiburcio is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader with over 15 years of experience building and scaling critical systems within Google’s diverse engineering landscape. Beginning his career at Google’s Irvine office in 2008 as a part of the Engineering Productivity (EngProd) organization, he contributed to tools and infrastructure supporting Google's Radio Ads systems. In 2009, …

Hosted By

Csaba Toth, GDG lead, WTM ambassador

Generative AI Engineer, GDG lead, WTM ambassador, tech meetup enthusiast.

Jennifer Brookshire, QA Engineer

Grace Ann Aranico, Organizer + WTM ambassador

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Partner

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