2022 Sept Meetup

Have we got an exciting line-up for you in September 🎉

Save the date, register now and join us for some excellent talks IRL hosted by Form3.

Join us remotely here

6pm - Drinks, nibbles, networking and registration
6.30pm commence

Panel discussion: writing Go in Production
Length: 30-45min
Moderator: Adelina Simion, Technology Evangelist @ Form3
Guests:

• Sharan Moore, Backend Engineer @ Monzo
• Patrycja Wegrzynowicz, Senior Platform Engineer @ Form3
• Rebecca Taft, Engineering Manager @ Cockroach Labs
• Alex Dresco, Software Engineer @Ravelin
• Nicole Gillet, Software Engineer @ Cloudflare

General themes covered:

• Converting from another language to Go
• How each guest runs Go in production in their teams

Career tips for software engineers - Q&A
Length: 15-30min
Speakers:

• Adelina Simion

General themes covered:

• Top tips for levelling up your tech skills
• Top tips for becoming an engineering lead

Life as a tech leader: Q&A with a CTO
Length: 15-30min
Speakers:

• Leah Cohen, CTO @ School of SOS

General themes covered:

• Leah's journey to CTO
• Career advice for women in tech
• Supporting diversity as tech leaders
• Q&A

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Speakers
Sharan Moore- Software Engineer, Monzo
Sharan is a backend engineer at Monzo bank. There she works within the Operations collective, building, maintaining and improving the customer service experience. Prior to joining Monzo, she worked in financial software and e-commerce industries, in both large and tiny engineering departments.

Nicole Gillett - Software Engineer, Cloudflare
Nicole is a Software Engineer at Cloudflare, London. She is on the Trust & Safety team, who are dedicated to making the internet safer for everyone.
She discovered the joys of coding during a computational research project as part of her MSc in Neuroscience also from University College London. She has hands-on experience building scalable systems, which she cannot wait to share!

Patrycja Wegrzynowicz - Senior Platform Engineer, Form3
Patrycja is a senior platform engineer at Form3, Financial Cloud, working on resilient multi-cloud connectivity between AWS, GCP, and Azure. She is also the founder of Yon Labs, a startup focusing on automated tools for detection and refactoring of security vulnerabilities, performance anti-patterns, or cloud issues and providing consultancy in Java and cloud technologies. She was awarded an Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador title in 2020 and 2021.

Rebecca Taft - Engineering Manager, Cockroach Labs
Rebecca is the Engineering Manager of the SQL Queries team at Cockroach Labs. Prior to joining Cockroach Labs, she was a Computer Science Ph.D. student at MIT, where she worked with Professor Michael Stonebraker researching distributed database elasticity and multi-tenancy. In her free time, she enjoys rowing on the Chicago River and enjoying the great outdoors.

Alex Dresco - Software Engineer, Ravelin Technology
Alex found her passion when she switched career from finance and entered the world of engineering after a bootcamp. Now she gets to use Go to fight crime while travelling the world.

Adelina Simion - Technology Evangelist, Form3
Adelina is a Technology Evangelist at Form3 in London, UK. She is currently in charge of telling Form3's great tech stories, drawing from her own technical experience. Adelina is passionate about sharing good technical content for beginners, who might be intimidated by the abstract concepts and jargon of most technical discussions.
She has also published two LinkedIn Learning courses on Go, which have helped thousands of developers upskill in Go. You can read more on her blog - https://adelinasimion.dev/ or catch her on Twitter @classic_addetz

Leah Cohen - CTO @ SOS Dance.
I come from a sporting background, competing at a national level in swimming for ten years, and now an avid tennis player. I brought the determination I learned through years of training into my career, working my way through a number of companies until I found SOS; a global movement in dance, using technology to distribute world class dance routines and build a close knit community worldwide, with female empowerment at it's core.