Track Overview
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Have you ever wondered how well-known tech companies can seamlessly deliver an exceptional user experience while supporting millions of users and billions of transactions?
In QCon's marquee Architectures track, we learn what it takes to operate at a large scale from well-known names in our industry. You will take away hard-earned architectural lessons on these next-gen architectures, patterns and anti-patterns, best practices, challenges, and exciting war stories.
From this track
How Starling Built Their Own Card Processor
Tuesday May 10 / 10:00AM EDT
Rob Donovan and Ioana Creanga talk about what happens behind the scenes when you pay with your card, and how Starling built their own card processor, integrating more traditional hardware with cloud-deployed micro-services.
Ioana Creanga
Engineer Lead for the Payments Processing Group @StarlingBank
Rob Donovan
Tech Lead @StarlingBank
How SeatGeek Successfully Handle High Demand Ticket On-Sales
Tuesday May 10 / 11:10AM EDT
High-demand online ticket on-sales are a core part of SeatGeek’s business and pose a challenge to delivering a seamless user experience. SeatGeek's ability to handle large amounts of online traffic made the company the preferred ticketing solution for significant teams at the English...
Anderson Parra
Senior Software Engineer @SeatGeek
Vitor Pellegrino
Director of Engineering @SeatGeek
Shopify’s Architecture to Handle the World’s Biggest Flash Sales
Tuesday May 10 / 12:20PM EDT
How do you enable millions of entrepreneurs to run their businesses on your platform? And how do you deal with product launches that suddenly bring millions of requests per minute from one moment to the next?This talk will walk through how Shopify works under the hood using the customer journey...
Bart de Water
Manager @Shopify Payments Team
The Afterparty: Refactoring After 100x Hypergrowth
Tuesday May 10 / 01:30PM EDT
PicPay is the largest digital wallet in Latin America. We offer peer-to-peer payments, BNPL, credit cards, personal loans, insurance, investing, trading, and other financial products to 60 million people and 5 million merchants, processing over $20 billion yearly. But just three years ago,...
Phil Calçado
Global CTO @PicPay
Speakers from this track
Ioana Creanga
Engineer Lead for the Payments Processing Group @StarlingBank
Ioana is currently an Engineer Lead for the Payments Processing Group at Starling Bank. She worked in several teams as a software engineer at Starling before she was given the task to build out a team which would develop a certified Mastercard card processor. She now helps the payment...
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Rob Donovan
Tech Lead @StarlingBank
Rob is tech lead for the card payments engineering team at Starling Bank. Before Starling he held various engineering roles in electronic trading, financial research and cloud infrastructure. Outside work, Rob enjoys playing the guitar and other musical activities, including the odd jam with...
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Anderson Parra
Senior Software Engineer @SeatGeek
Ander is a software engineer with many years of experience in large distributed systems that support high-traffic and huge volumes of data. He has created solutions using Java, Scala, JavaScript, Ruby, Python and Golang for companies in Brazil, Ireland, Germany, UK, and US. He has a master's...
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Vitor Pellegrino
Director of Engineering @SeatGeek
Vitor Pellegrino is a Director of Engineering at SeatGeek. He leads the Cloud Platform team, which is the group responsible for developing the platform that powers all SeatGeek's systems. He has been working as a software developer for over 15 years with companies in Brazil, Germany and...
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Bart de Water
Manager @Shopify Payments Team
Bart works as a manager on the Shopify Payments team from Montréal, Canada. Over the last couple of years, Bart has helped scale Shopify’s in house payment offering to more merchants in more markets and with support for more payment methods. Before moving to the cold lands of poutine and...
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Phil Calçado
Global CTO @PicPay
Phil Calçado is the Global CTO at PicPay. Before PicPay, Phil was Senior Director of Engineering at SeatGeek, leading the team that built the live events platform used by 44 million people worldwide. He has also led the platform team at Meetup/WeWork, worked on Linkerd - the pioneering Service...
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Track Host
Eder Ignatowicz
Java Champion, Tech Lead, and Principal Software Engineer @RedHat
Eder is a Principal Software Engineer and Tech Lead for Red Hat Business Automation, leading several tooling efforts, including the Kogito initiative. Java Champion since 2017 and a recognized community contributor and speaker in large conferences across the globe, including Red Hat Summit and...
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