DevMemphis - A new Meetup for Memphis Software Developers

Topic: Being a professional developer

This month at DevMemphis, Joe Ferguson will be leading a round table discussion about being a professional developer. Joe will be joined by three other experienced software developers from the Memphis area. This is a chance to have an open conversation with successful programmers about what it means to be a developer. This event is free and open to everyone interested.

Food and drinks will be provided by Ookla
We'll also be giving away a copy of "Going Pro" by Cal Evans

Discussion Leader

Joe Ferguson
Joe is a Software Engineer, Drone Pilot, Conference Organizer, Speaker, Mentor, Mental Health Advocate, Community Advocate, Open Source Maintainer & Contributor, Space Geek, and Husband. He Enjoys craft beers and whiskey. Owned by cats. Joe is PHP developer and architect at Ministry Brands and founder of Memphis Technology Foundation

Joe will be joined by:

Jason Charnes
Jason is a Senior Software Developer at Podia; lover of Ruby, Memphis, scotch, complexity and simplicity. He is the organizer of Southeast Ruby, co-organizer of DevMemphis, co-host of Remote Ruby, and friendly neighbor.

Josh Lewis
Josh is a mechanical engineer who left the trade to build a startup and learned to program on the way. Now, he's a full-stack developer who specializes in Ruby. He's presently building software to provide top-notch developer experiences at Heroku (a salesforce.com company).

Kevin Nuckolls
Kevin is currently a Software Architect at Ookla, post the acquisition of Mosaik in the summer of 2018. Throughout his career he has managed teams through two acquisitions, led teams of varying sizes up to ~30 reports, and helped curate effective software engineering culture as needed. In addition to leadership, he has been programming since age twelve and had a storied career building Javascript in browser applications / websites, the server side services necessary to support them in Java, Ruby, Python, Scala, and Go, and has built out a great deal of low level linux / server / database orchestration with Chef, Mesos, Terraform, and Kubernetes.

You!
Come eat pizza, ask questions, share stories, or just sit back and listen.

What is devMemphis?
DevMemphis is a general purpose technical user-group for anyone in the Memphis Community interested in programming, software development, security, dev-ops, developer experience and related topics. DevMemphis is free to anyone who wants to attend and meets on the first Tuesday of each month at the FedEx Institute of Technology on the University of Memphis campus