Speaker: Colm MacCárthaigh

Senior Principal Engineer @awscloud
QCon

Colm is an engineer at Amazon Web Services. For just over ten years Colm has been building some of the largest services at AWS, including Amazon EC2, S3, ELB, CloudFront, and Route53.  Colm is also an active Open Source contributor and is the main author of Amazon s2n, AWS's Open Source implementation of TLS/SSL, as well as a member of the Apache Software Foundation and a core contributor to Apache httpd and apr. In evenings and weekends, Colm is an Irish folk musician and singer and regular tours, produces and records albums, and enjoys teaching workshops. 

Find Colm MacCárthaigh at

@colmmacc
LinkedIn

Proposed Tracks

  • Trouble-Shooting in Production

  • Disrupting Technology on Wall Street

  • Resilience vs Failure in Architecture

  • The Weeds of Distributed File Systems

  • Organizational Agility

  • Product & Customer Focused Teams

  • Just Culture (Blameless Culture)

  • Modern CS in the Real World

  • Architectures You’ve Always Wondered About

  • Machine Learning and AI in the New Decade

  • Evolving Java - Including K8s/Containers, Kotlin and Impact on AOT

  • Ethical Considerations in Software

  • Microservices and Scalability

  • Container Slinging

  • Native Compilation Is Back (A Look at Non-Vm Compilation Targets)

2019 Schedule