Atlanta Tech Meetup: June 28, 2017, Strongbox West

This month's meetup promises to be especially intriguing with two excellent presenters lined up: Sai Ramachandran and Mike Donnellan. (See details below.)

All are welcome to share, learn and network. Doors open at 6:30 (or a bit earlier if you wish!) with soft drinks and snacks, followed by the program from 7 to 8 and conversations thereafter.

Agenda

6:30 p.m. Sign in / Drinks & Snacks

7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. -- Program

Demo 1: Sai Ramachandran, presenting Kheera

In his 12+ years developing software professionally, Sai Ramachandran, has worked on Wall Street building and maintaining Equities trading systems, taught himself Objective-C to make mobile apps for Fortune 500 clients like Pepsi and Thermo Fisher Scientific and most recently, architecting automation strategies for an Atlanta based cable company.

He says his biggest motivation as a developer has been to figure out how to do get paid to do the least amount of work possible and tonight's demo should convince you of that.

Kheera enables developers to convert stories into executable tests within minutes. Having written and maintained hundreds, if not thousands, of automated tests, Sai finally got tired of writing boilerplate code again and again. So he wrote this wrapper around Cucumber+Selenium which lets him execute Feature files without writing a single line of Java code. No Page Objects, No StepDefs, just a feature file which runs from the command line. And oh, this works on any website, just like regular Cucumber+Selenium.

Demo 2: Mike Donnellan, Analytics Architect

For more than 20 years, Mike Donnellan has immersed himself in Microsoft technology and has followed the evolution of the tech behemoth’s offerings down some interesting and product paths.

Mike will demo some of Microsoft’s cooler data analytics capabilities and show us some of the tools offered by Microsoft, such as real-time analysis of social media. It promises to be interesting!

Mike Donnellan is a business strategist, data engineer, and IT generalist who specializes in growth strategies, mathematical modeling, data warehousing and analysis, and business intelligence. While much of his recent work has been in the nonprofit arena, his knowledge and skills obviously extend to the for-profit world. From a technical point of view, Mike is a top-to-bottom, end-to-end Microsoft data stack, architect and developer.

8:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. -- Informal conversations

If you would like to volunteer to speak, do a demo or be a sponsor, please let us know. You can contact us at: Connect@AtlantaTechMeetup.com

This event is organized by Bizinuum Services (http://bizinuum.com). There is no charge for this meetup, thanks to the generosity of our sponsors.

Note: Event building is behind main facility at 1040 West Marietta St. NW, 30318. Access via back parking lot. From West Marietta, turn onto Herndon Ave., then left at second gate. Circle up to the 2nd parking level and you’ll see the stand-alone building.