Speaker: Jean Barmash
Jean Barmash is an experienced Engineering Executive. Most recently, he was Director of Engineering at Compass, where was building the first modern real estate brokerage. Prior to Compass, he was VP of Engineering, Apps Platform & Marketplaces at Tradeshift. Jean has over 17 years of experience in software industry, and has been part of 5 startups, three as CTO / VPE and one of which he co-founded. Prior to his entrepreneurial adventures, Jean held a number of progressively senior roles in product development, integration consulting, and team leadership, working with Fortune 100 companies like Ford, Microsoft, BofA, Citi, IHG, and Adobe.
Jean is passionate about raising the level of technical leadership in the industry, and for the last six years has been organizing CTO School New York meetup, an organization he co-founded and grew to over 2,400 members. Jean lives in NY with his awesome and supportive wife and two hilariously-funny kids.
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Tracks
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Microservices: Patterns & Practices
Evolving, observing, persisting, and building modern microservices
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Developer Experience: Level up Your Engineering Effectiveness
Improving the end to end developer experience - design, dev, test, deploy, operate/understand. Tools, techniques, and trends.
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Modern Java Reloaded
Modern, Modular, fast, and effective Java. Pushing the boundaries of JDK 9 and beyond.
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Modern User Interfaces: Screens and Beyond
Zero UI, voice, mobile: Interfaces pushing the boundary of what we consider to be the interface
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Practical Machine Learning
Applied machine learning lessons for SWEs, including tech around TensorFlow, TPUs, Keras, Caffe, & more
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Ethics in Computing
Inclusive technology, Ethics and politics of technology. Considering bias. Societal relationship with tech. Also the privacy problems we have today (e.g., GDPR, right to be forgotten)
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Next-gen architectures from the most admired companies in software, such as Netflix, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Goldman Sachs
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Modern CS in the Real World
Thoughts pushing software forward, including consensus, CRDT's, formal methods, & probalistic programming
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Container and Orchestration Platforms in Action
Runtime containers, libraries, and services that power microservices
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Finding the Serverless Sweetspot
Stories about the pains and gains from migrating to Serverless.
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Chaos, Complexity, and Resilience
Lessons building resilient systems and the war stories that drove their adoption
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Real World Security
Practical lessons building, maintaining, and deploying secure systems
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Blockchain Enabled
Exploring Smart contracts, oracles, sidechains, and what can/cannot be done with blockchain today.
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21st Century Languages
Lessons learned from languages like Rust, Go-lang, Swift, Kotlin, and more.
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Empowered Teams
Safely running inclusive teams that are autonomous and self-correcting