Google Developer Experts Summit

This week your cohosts Francesc and Mark travel all the way to sunny Sunnyvale, CA to interview some Google Developer Experts on the amazing things they do.

Google Developer Experts are a very interesting group of highly skilled people with a passion for technology and spreading their knowledge. We will talk about how they are using the cloud to improve research on cancer.

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Interviews: Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine

Alexis is a Developer Relations Program Manager for the Google Cloud Advocacy team, and manages the Google Developer Experts program for all cloud related topics.

Lynn Langit

Lynn is the co-founder of ‘Teaching Kids Programming’ and a Big Data and Cloud Architect, as well as an analyst.

She is also an advisory board member at Codenvy, and AlgebraixData.

Alline Oliveira

Alline is the founder of LeanX.co and a senior Java/GWT programmer. Over the past 20 years, she has programmed, taught and managed teams in various companies across the globe including Qualcomm; Nike Inc.; the University of California at San Diego (UCSD); Tata Consultancy Services (a CMM Level 5 company based in India); and TBABrazil (a Microsoft partner).

Daniel Cukier

Daniel is a entrepreneur, founder and CTO at Playax, a music intelligence and analytics platform. Before Playax he worked for two years as CTO at Elo7 – the biggest crafts marketplace in Brazil and became venture advisor at Monashees Capital. He is also a Computer Science PhD candidate at University of São Paulo – IME-USP. His PhD research in on Software Startups Ecosystems and Entrepreneurship. He mastered in Computer Science in University of São Paulo in 2009, with the Thesis Patterns for Introducing New Ideas in the Software Industry.

Daniel started developing software in Brazil when he was 10, on his TK-3000 Basic 2MB RAM computer. He worked as a consultant and software developer in many companies. In 2001, he worked for an Internet startup in Italy. In 2006 he joined Locaweb, the biggest web hosting company in Brazil and worked there for 5 years as developer and tech lead in infrastructure team. In 2010, he organized the first DevOpsDays Brazil. Daniel is an active member in the agile and software development communities, speaker in many conferences such as QCON, Agile Brasil, TDC, DevCamp, Agile Trends and others.

Didier Girard

Didier has a Ph.D in Machine Learning; has been a web developer since 1994; a java developer since 1997; speaker at many conferences (QCon, Devoxx, Google Developer Day, DevFest, JUGs,…); an expert in Cloud Technologies. Currently, he’s Innovation Director at SFEIR (150-developer French IT Consultancy Company). Plus he’s a Google Authorized Trainer and author of the Android/AppEngine ABonEntendeur application – with 1M+ downloads.

Krishnan S. P. T.

Krishnan is a seasoned professional with 16+ years of industry experience in multiple IT domains. Built several software products, secured and successfully executed multiple partner-­funded projects worth few million dollars. Krishnan currently works at a research institute in Singapore, where he leads a team of researchers, engineers, programmers and students on several computer security projects.

Krishnan has also co-authored the book “Building Your Next Big Thing with Google Cloud Platform” which is the first book that comprehensively covers Google Cloud Platform. The book was launched at Google IO 2015 in May 2015 and more information is available at https://bit.ly/cloudplatformbook. He also created a new undergraduate course “Cloud Computing: business case and technical models” for a local university in Singapore.

Jose Albert Padin

Albert is a developer and entrepreneur who’s worked on consumer, enterprise, and government software products. He is the co-founder and CTO of Symph, a design, development, and startup studio. At Symph, he has architected and developed solutions for 500 Startups, Office of the President of the Philippines, and the World Bank.

Albert leads a diverse team of developers in creating software solutions. He ensures that the team’s output is high quality and performs well at scale. Albert is also passionate about empowering startups and has been involved in the Philippine Startup Ecosystem, by facilitating and mentoring at Startup Weekends and other events.

Prior to that, Albert started SpellDial, directed plays, and mentored street children. He studied Information Technology at the Centre for International Education Global Colleges. He lives in Cebu City, Philippines with his wife. His interests include theatre, performing arts, and the non-trivial act of eradicating poverty.

Vikram Tiwari

Vikram is full stack developer focused on building scalable web platforms for high availability, resilience and security.

He is currently building solutions to simplify multi-channel advertising space at Omni Labs, Inc. in San Francisco, California. In past he has built a Real-Time Bidder which served over ~12Bn queries each day.

Outside of work, he has a passion for contributing to open source community as one of the core contributors in MEAN Stack framework, among other web and cloud projects. He loves working with startups and developers in helping them navigate through challenges and succeed in their journey.

Mark had fun at the Google Developer Experts Summit

Question of the week

If I delete something from Datastore, is it strongly consistent?

• Data Consistency docs
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Were will we be?

Francesc will be working on the next episode of justforfunc and enjoying some holidays, right before joining our team offsite in Los Angeles with Mark.