Yasmine Rigby
Placement Software Engineer, Hamilton Robson | Organiser, NIDC | Computer Science Student, UUB
Belfast, United Kingdom
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Yasmine is a software engineer at Hamilton Robson and a third-year Computer Science student at Ulster University. With over a year of experience working within a research and development team, Yasmine has gained skills in various areas such as full-stack engineering, cloud development, data engineering, and more, all while developing a strong passion for problem-solving. Yasmine actively contributes to her local tech community as an organiser, speaker, and attendee, including her role as an organiser at NIDC (technology conference in Belfast) and her former position as City Lead at Women Who Code Belfast.
Yasmine has experience presenting on panels and solo for meetup groups and conferences such as NIDC, belfAWSt (AWS community group), Google’s WTM Belfast, and BelTech.
Outside of coding, Yasmine spends most of her time in local coffee shops, searching for the best almond croissant, reading sci-fi titles, and gaming. She believes in diving in, learning along the way, and keeping an open mind to new ways of thinking and growing is the best approach to developing a growth mindset.
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Slaying Big Data with Serverless Functions: Scaling up with AWS Lambda
In this talk, we will discuss the journey of transforming our analytics dashboard using serverless technologies. I'll take you through the thrilling (yet terrifying) process of restructuring our schemas and API routes, migrating some client-side logic to AWS Lambda functions, and implementing advanced techniques to optimise our API request and response payloads - resulting in drastically improved dashboard load times and scalability.
You'll hear about the challenges of handling big data, the struggles of data validation, and the unexpected hurdles that tested our problem-solving skills. But more importantly, you'll see how serverless architecture allowed us to overcome these obstacles and scale from displaying 7 days of data to 6 months on the dashboard.
Can currently be delivered as a talk up to 30 minutes in length
Deconstruct the chaos, reconstruct the solution
In this talk, I’ll take you through my own journey as a junior software engineer, breaking down how I turned “I don’t know what I’m doing” into a structured approach to tackling the unknown. I'll introduce you to first principles thinking, what it is, how it works, and how breaking problems down to their basics helped me work through projects a variety of backend engineering tasks.
We’ll chat about why it’s 100% okay to suck at something when you start out (you were literally born knowing nothing, and look at you now). I’ll also share tips on how I changed my mindset and built my confidence with my technical skills. My overall goal is that you will leave with the confidence to remind yourself: it's okay if you don't know something, you’ll figure it out.
Can be delivered as a 15-30 minute session, or extended to a 30-60 minute session.
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