Speaker: Alan Blount

Software Engineer @Google

Alan Blount has been a web application developer since 2000 and loves learning and teaching tech skill (aka. superpowers).   

Before starting at Google as a Sr. Technical Solutions Consultant, Alan worked as a Tech Lead (and a variety of other titles) for eltoro.com and alliedhealtmedia.com - helping build startups into successful companies and working in many different technologies and infrastructures.  Development was mostly web-based scripting languages, monoliths, microservices, and ETL. Infrastructure became DevOps with configuration management, cloud deployments, and containerized orchestration.
Alan cares about “the craft of software development” and firmly believes that anyone who wants to, can learn the tools of the trade.  The most important traits are enthusiasm, curiosity, and imagination.  

Current topics Alan is excited about are Elixir/Go, Docker+Kubernetes, and machine learning w/ TensorFlow.  He is an evangelist for many technologies and processes including git, React, Node, Docker, DevOps / CI / CD, microservices & serverless, ETL, Testing / TDD / BDD.   

When not on a computer, Alan and family like to hike, camp, rock climb, and play ultimate frisbee, ping-pong, and board games. Alan recently moved to Boulder Colorado, and is looking forward to snowboarding this winter.

Workshop : Introduction to Docker and Containers

Tracks

Monday, 5 November

Tuesday, 6 November

Wednesday, 7 November

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