Speaker: Maria Girone
Maria has a PhD in particle physics. She also has extensive knowledge in computing for high-energy physics experiments, having worked in scientific computing since 2002.
Maria has worked for many years on the development and deployment of services and tools for the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), the global grid computing system used to store, distribute, and analyse the data produced by the experiments on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Maria was the founder of the WLCG operations coordination team, which she also previously led. This team is responsible for overseeing core operations and commissioning new services.
Throughout 2014 and 2015, Maria was the software and computing coordinator for one of the four main LHC experiments, called CMS. She was responsible for about seventy computing centres on five continents, and managed a distributed team of several hundred people.
Tracks
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Humane Leadership
A look at leadership with an emphasis on empathy, taking chances and building other leaders within organizations and teams
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Developer Experience: The Art and Science of Reducing Friction
Explore how to reduce developer friction between teams and stakeholders.
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Blameless Culture
Absorb the lessons learned from failures and outages in a human-centric process.
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Modern Computer Science in the Real World
Learn how companies are applying recent CS research to tackle concurrency, distributed data, and coordination.
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Architectures You’ve Always Wondered About
Join companies like Google, Netflix, Bloomberg, BBC, and more as they share an inside glimpse on their next-gen architectures and challenges of delivering at massive scale.
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Bare Knuckle Performance
Learn from practitioners on the challenges and benefits of architecting for performance and much more.
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Java - The Interesting Bits
Learn the new features in the recent and near-future releases of Java and the JVM and what they offer.
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Ethical Considerations in Consciously Designed Software
Design considerations for various contexts, locations, security and privacy requirements.
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Operating Microservices
Learn from practitioners operating and evolving systems in performance demanding environments.
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Shift-Left Cybersecurity: Developer Accountability for Security
Learn how to make security an inherent part of the software development process.
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Native Compilation Is Back (A Look at Non-Vm Compilation Targets)
Issues with native compilation for in browser-based and server-side environments
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Troubleshooting in Production
Learn debugging strategies for complex and high stakes environments where standard debuggers and profilers fail.
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Predictive Architectures and ML
Learn about cutting-edge ML applications and their underlying architectures.
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Mission Critical Data Engineering
Explore a variety of data engineering use-cases and applications
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Production Readiness
Observability, emergency response, capacity planning, release processes, and SLOs for availability and latency.