Todd Fisher
Launching 0-1 startups
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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In his current role Todd co-launches a new venture backed startup every few months, acting as an interim CTO / founding engineer. Over Todd’s close to 20 year career, he has held titles such as head of engineering, director of engineering and principal software engineer. Todd loves to build things and, like many of us, has been enjoying the shift into the AI native mindset of software development. When Todd is not telling an AI to write code, he can be found strumming his guitar in random places, such as the beach, in the mountains, on his front porch, or even at a tech conference such as this one :). Todd is passionate about creating positive experiences for people, including through writing music, building products, and community building . Todd is always open for a jam session or the occasional paired programming with strangers, just ask.
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Need for speed - Moving fast as a software engineer
Come listen to an old dev rant while sharing insights, hear what enables others to move quickly, and share some of your own ideas on how you can be more effective at delivering value in a timely manner.
You will walk away from this talk with:
+ A better understanding of what practices and patterns can help you in moving fast.
+ Encouragement and guidance to help you further develop a mindset of tradeoffs, openness to new ideas, and focusing on what value your product is actually trying to deliver to the people for which you are building software.
+ A general understanding of how AI can affect speed in both a good and bad way.
While my guitar gently speaks
Do you ever wonder What the next evolution of live performances will look like? I do all the time. Come experience what happens when you combine live guitar playing with DSP as well as TTS and other models, all running locally. Prepare to be entertained and get familiar with new possibilities that modern AI opens up in the audio and digital signal processing space while you enjoy a live performance on top of an informative slide presentation.
Walk away from this talk inspired to help build the next evolution of tools for musicians and live performances. We will touch on how to build with tools such as classic DSP, JUCE, on device TTS, CoreML, WhisperX, CoreMIDI and more!
You might even get a chance to have a conversation with a guitar!
Make Work Not Suck: Improving the Developer Experience
Ever wanted to improve the experience at work for you and your fellow engineers, but not sure where to start? Come dive into the evolving world of Developer Experience (DevEx) and start thinking about some of the more practical things you can do to make work more enjoyable for all! In addition to covering some of the core concepts of DevEx, as well as some “things to try,” I will share some insight into the engineering culture at Pluralsight and how we have historically thought about striving to maintain a healthy work environment for all teams.
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