Lyndsey Padget
Solutions Architect at VMLY&R
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Lyndsey is a technology leader with nearly 20 years of software and web development experience at both mega-corporations and startups. She enjoys sharing in-depth knowledge on topics such as Git & release management, MEAN stack development, microservices & REST, test-driven development, agile & kanban, healthy teams, diversity & inclusion, public speaking, and more. Lyndsey is involved in local organizations that encourage women, young and old, to explore careers in math and science. She believes that the difference between a good software engineer and a great one often has little to do with code.
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Badass 101
Stop being invisible, assert yourself, and communicate what you want in your career and life. Yes, this is possible without violating Wheaton’s Law.
Would Chuck Norris ask you to come hear him speak at a conference? No, he wouldn't. He would TELL you that you're coming, and then roundhouse kick you in the face if you gave him any more lip. "What would Chuck Norris do?" is a philosophy this session will cover in depth. Other topics include: badass vs a-hole, human duck typing, the art of [not] caring, instrumentality, and what your facial hair says about you. You won't learn any new code in this session, but you might unleash a Pandora's box of awesomeness that will change the way you interact with your coworkers forever.
Productivity Master Class
If you think that successful individuals in our field are just talented or lucky, you’re only partially right. More importantly, they are very good at focusing on the right things, making them extremely efficient.
If you think that successful individuals in our field are just talented or lucky, you’re only partially right. More importantly, they are very good at focusing on the right things, making them extremely efficient. We often blame others for our inability to focus, but the truth is that we allow outside forces to drain our time and attention, leaving us time-crunched and stressed. This session will highlight many popular productivity strategies, many of which can be applied in your home as well as in your office! Whether your issue is email or chat addiction, incessant meetings, procrastination, general disorganization, or poor estimation skills… this course is for you. Reclaim your time, your career, and your life by training yourself how to focus on what matters.
Push it (Push it Real Good)
This session will cover the most critical git concepts, basic and advanced, in a completely visualized way. Then, go beyond the basics to learn how to get yourself out of a git pickle, practical release management strategies, and more.
Even if you're already using Git and comfortable with the basics, situations can arise where you wish you understood it better. In this session we’ll quickly cover the fundamentals of cloning, branching, and merging. Then we’ll move on to different workflows, release management strategies, how to get out of a Git pickle, and more. We will explore less frequently used - but extremely helpful - commands that can save your team hours, days, or weeks of work. Finally, you’ll gather some pro tips for using Git on the command line, ensuring that wherever and however you work, you’ll become your team’s resident Git Wizard.
Turning Horses into Unicorns: Tech Apprenticeships in Action
Unicorns (great developers) are made, not born. With some patience, leadership, and - yes, glitter - you can welcome and retain non-traditional junior technologists.
The pandemic completely changed the workforce, resulting in a huge amount of churn in the tech talent landscape. In this session, we’ll review a pre and post pandemic tech apprentice program that was reimagined. We’ll cover the challenges and triumphs we experienced along the way - some anticipated, some not. These include communication across departments and companies, persuading team leads that apprentices are worth the time investment, finding and interacting with “green” talent, and more. Learn from our experiences to leverage apprenticeships as a critical element of your tech team’s long-term success.
Lyndsey Padget
Solutions Architect at VMLY&R
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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