Courtney Hemphill
Courtney Hemphill is a Partner and Technical Lead at Carbon Five, a strategic digital product development firm. She has been developing software since 1999, first at an early stage e-commerce startup and eventually moving into consulting. In her role at Carbon Five, she has built ground up HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based platforms for health care companies, worked on a large server cluster analysis and forecasting platform, and supported enterprise executives transitioning from third-party solutions to skilled in-house continuous delivery teams. She is currently managing the Carbon Five NYC team and helping companies in insurance and finance develop cloud-native, test driven, continuous delivery software for data management, APIs, and new product creation.
Courtney mentors for TechStars, is an advisor to several startups, and organizes coding workshops for women. She also sits on the Golden Gate Board of NatureBridge, and is constantly finding random new corners of the world to rock climb.
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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