Five9 Tech Talks - Continuous Feedback & DuckDB handling Porto transit data

Hi everyone,
Let's open up Five9 Tech Talks' schedule for 2024 with two amazing talks, covering two distinct topics around growing engineers through continuous feedback and the role on DuckDB handling Porto transit data.
Join us for a great evening!
Please find the details below.

Agenda
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Title
How to grow your engineers through continuous feedback

Theme
Continuous Feedback in Engineering: A Practical Approach. Steps for developing engineers through self-awareness and targeted growth strategies.

Biography
João Fernandes is a Director of Engineering at Five9, with a rich background in software engineering and a keen focus on machine learning. An advocate for autonomous teams and high-quality software solutions, João has extensive experience in setting up engineering organisations and fostering environments that encourage learning and growth. He has previously held roles on establishing engineering organisation at Getground and leading the Integrations and Data teams at Talkdesk.

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Title
Quacking with DuckDB: a Duck take on Porto Mass Transit

Theme
DuckDB is revolutionising data processing, enabling a single machine to handle what was considered Big Data just two years ago.
In this presentation, we'll delve into a real-life case where we develop a platform to identify delays in Porto buses. The talk will walk you through the entire data pipeline, starting with the ingestion of real-time Porto Bus data from the "Explore Porto" platform. We'll then explore three different data formats compatible with DuckDB: Sqlite, Parquet, and Iceberg. Additionally, we'll provide an introduction to using DBT for data transformation and demonstrate how to ingest data from S3. Finally, we'll showcase the power of DuckDB in analysing real-time data and detecting potential issues.

Biography
José Cabeda is a data engineer on a mission to make positive difference around him. He considers himself a proud bookworm. He likes to chase a ball and affectionately call it football. You may find him expressing his thoughts on cabeda.dev.