PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A
Mechanical Sympathy Panel
Join us for a panel discussing modern hardware and the options that are enabled. What, if any, new skills should be honed? What old skills are still relevant? What should we be looking forward to in the future?
Speaker
Howard Chu
Systems Level Developer & CTO @SymasCorp
Howard Chu has been writing Free/Open Source software since the 1980s. His work has spanned a wide range of computing topics, including most of the GNU utilities (gcc, gdb, gmake, etc.), networking protocols and tools, kernel and filesystem drivers, and focused on maximizing the useful work from...
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Michael Barker
Software Engineer & Independent Consultant at Ephemeris Consulting Ltd
Michael Barker is an independent software consultant, specialising distributed systems, concurrency and high performance systems. He has spent 20+ years working in a variety of industries and has spent most of the last decade working on low-latency financial exchanges. Michael is a...
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Speaker
Aaron Bedra
Senior Software Engineer @drwtrading
Aaron Bedra is a Senior Software Engineer at DRW. He has served as a Chief Scientist, Chief Security Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and Principal Engineer/Architect. He has worked professionally on programming languages, most notably Clojure and ClojureScript. Aaron uses his immersion in...
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Date
Wednesday May 26 / 12:10PM EDT (40 minutes)
Track
Mechanical Sympathy - Developing for Modern Hardware
Topics
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