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Laura Kirby

SWE, IBM Aspera

Laura is a software engineer at IBM Aspera. She is currently working on a full-stack web application that processes and manages big data. In her spare time,she volunteers for Bridge Foundry, a non-profit that aims to diversity the tech industry. When she isn't thinking about code, she can be found practising gymnastics or hosting friends for board games.

Talks by Laura Kirby

Day 1
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Impact of Contributing to Open Source

I became involved with Bridge Troll through first attending a RailsBridge workshop. I later volunteered and helped teach at RailsBridge workshops. Once I started to become familiar with Ruby on Rails, I began contributing to the Bridge Troll source code. The community people working on open source code are extremely friendly and helpful. I have found that working on open source projects is a good place to learn about industry standards, learn to code collaboratively, gain insight on new approaches, receive mentorship and mentor others.
Day 2
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM

Building a Customer Facing Analytics

My team at Aspera IBM created a real-time data analytics platform using Kafka, Cassandra and Ruby on Rails. Cassandra can keep up with the high frequency of writes. Kafka can stream data from our daemon to our Rails Application. We now show our customers real-time & highly detailed historical data.