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🎤 Contribution to Open Source
Ethan Arrowood (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethan-arrowood-6ba88611b/)

Contributing to open source is a noticeable skill many employers look for in new candidates. Ethan will review four open source projects he has contributed to, how it helped get an internship at Microsoft, and how you can start contributing too.

🎤 Demystifying That Regex Stuff
Shannon Kendall (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannonkendall-/)

For those unfamiliar with them, regular expressions can look like some kind of black magic that reduces lines of code into a few, cryptic symbols. This introduction breaks down what is actually going on inside those characters to provide such a precise, compact method of searching through strings. It turns out it’s not wizardry after all.

🎤 Advanced Redux Patterns
Nir Kaufman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nirkaufman/)

In this talk, we will explore advanced patterns and techniques in Redux inspired by old and proven design principles of large scale messaging-based systems.