Zahhar Kirillov
EPAM Switzerland, Delivery Manager
Schaffhausen, Switzerland
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During 20+ years spent in ICT industry, I had a privilege to wear all possible hats, acting as a software developer, UX designer, university lecturer, startup entrepreneur, CIO and finally as a delivery manager at S&P500 engineering company. Creating software is my biggest passion. I stay hands-on by delivering PoC and MVP to clients, diving into all aspects of modern technology, be it cloud computing, blockchain or AI. Originally from Estonia, since 2016 I live in Switzerland and in free time I enjoy doing yoga and snowboarding.
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Why AzureB2C makes me cry
AzureB2C is a great service – no doubts. Still it can be a pain to adopt if you considering migration to it from another IAM/Auth provider, such as OKTA in our case.
As part of cloud cost reduction initiative my client decided to abandon OKTA and switch to AzureB2C that – according to checklist-based comparison – was able to provide same fetures much cheaper.
We did so, and faced many challenges (and there are still some that makes us cry) – that I will cover in this talk.
Our Scrum Master is... AI
GenAI is showing great potential for automating many administrative tasks. We will examine ways in which GenAI can facilitate Scrum events and impact agile workflow, along with opportunities and challenges it presents for the future of agile project management.
This session reveals practical ways GenAI can take up the Scrum Master's mantle to drive team efficiency and effectiveness. We will explore questions raised by this evolution: how can AI-powered Scrum Master become even better version of Serval Leader, being able to serve even more teams, or, perhaps, become totally replaced by AI-Bot? What might be the repercussions of AI-project-led teams? Join us to find the answers together and let's discover the future of Agile Leadership and Scrum Master role!
Microsoft Clarity: a hidden gem among Web Analytics tools
Microsoft Clarity, a free-to-use analytics tool introduced in 2020, still remains a very niche software. In this short talk I will give you an overview of MS Clarity features and data integration possibilities, also share pro/cons and some lessons learned while using it.
E2E AI-powered feature development primer
Let's sit together and develop something – for instance, a game – fully relying on AI capabilities. We will use AI everywhere where it is possible, and figure out if this is reasonable and helpful.
We will define Acceptance Criteria with GenAI made available as Chrome Plugin, then write code & unit tests with Github Copilot, then build a pipeline to build & deploy it using Copilot for Azure. Finally we will test the feature and create a documentation for it – also with the help of AI.
Can we make everything in 120 minutes? Join the session to figure it out together, by doing and sharing our experiences!
Design Thinking with AI
Unlock your Creativity and avoid Blank Page Anxiety by leveraging AI tools in a whole new way.
This workshop will teach you how to work with AI like a Design Partner to find solutions that are both innovative and customer-centric. Whether you're a student or seasoned professional, you might consider joining this workshop to:
1) Understand how AI can change the way we think about problems and solutions.
2) Learn to guide AI tools in productive yet ethical way
3) Design better solutions for people by combining your creativity with AI power.
All necessary AI tools will be provided: no subscription required.
Combat vulnerabilities with MS Defender, Azure Policies and Azure DevOps integration
Vulnerability management (VuMa) is a key component of enterprise cyber security resilience. Apparently, in a race towards ultimate security VuMa represents runner Achilles of Zeno’s paradox.
(Short recap: Zeno argues that a swift runner like Achilles cannot overtake a slower moving tortoise with a head start, because the distance between them can be infinitely subdivided, implying Achilles would require an infinite number of steps to catch the tortoise)
To be able to overcome a tortoise and combat vulnerabilities in a timely manner, we introduced integration of MS Defender with ticketing system (Azure DevOps). Azure Logic App fetches remediation tasks from MS Defender, assesses risk and automatically assigns them to the right technical staff, managing priorities and workload.
We will tell a story how we built and how we operate VuMa in organization of our client with 3000+ workplaces and managed to achieve high level of satisfaction of end-users, technical staff, IT management and CISO.
Career Limiting Moves and how to avoid them
I invite young professionals, fresh graduates and everyone planning to continue their career with enterprise-class employers to join me in this enlightening journey explaining how subtle traps, pitfalls, and wrong turns (I name them CLM – Career Limiting Moves) can hinder or halt your career progression. Together we also learn how to avoid them, helping to build a path towards successful career growth in the tech world.
Talk is based on my two decades of experience within the tech industry, and last 8 years working for S&P500 tech. company, serving other high-caliber customers.
BuDoBoK: must-have artefact to success complex projects
As a Project Manager accountable for success of multiple projects, I was looking how AI tools could help me to solve forever challenge: onboarding team members into (potentially new for some of them) business domain and making business domain knowledge (along with communication of recent updates and changes) available to all team members.
Thankfully, mass-availability of RAG [Retrieval Augmented Generation] feature in AI-tools allowed me to make a big step forward. Let me introduce a new artefact that I called "BuDoBoK" – Business Domain Body of Knowledge. Since the beginning of 2024 I made it mandatory in all knowledge-intence projects under my management.
In this talk I will explain what BuDoBoK is and what knowledge management problems it solves. Using as an example BuDoBoK I crafted for Swiss Insurance Industry I will show how to create, update and distribute it. Finally, I will demonstrate how business analysts, testers and developers can benefit from it during project lifecycle - by sharing practical prompts and tips.
As a RAG AI Tool Microsoft Copilot Studio will be utilized, unless more advanced tools come into play later this year before conference day.
Beyond the Default: Designing Corporate Power BI Theme
Recently my client asked me to design a Power BI Corporate Theme.
Something that initially looked as a task for a couple of unhurried weeks tuned into 2 month quest full of exploration of Power BI JSON format peculiarities and limitations, and ended up with delivery of comprehensive design system with templates, samples and tutorial for end-uses.
We discuss tools and approaches that help designers, naturally used to MacOS and Figma, to succeed with this type of assignments, and share learnings that, hopefully, will make road less bumpy for those of you who have it ahead.
Audience: BI Analysts, UI/UX Designers.
Product: MS Power BI
Anti-virus: ClamAV in VM vs Microsoft Defender for Storage
Back in 2019 client asked me to build an anti-virus feature in Azure to identify and eliminate any malware potentially uploaded by end-users. Back then we delivered this feature using ClamAV open-source antivirus software running in VM. In 2023, after Microsoft Defender for Storage became generally available in our target region, we compared it with ClamAV and decided to switch.
Now 1 year passed since we switched to Defender and it is time to compare both approaches and share experience and lessons learned from building, supporting and operating both approaches.
Seeking limits of Azure Document Intelligence while extracting data from complex documents
I spent several months working on data extraction from multi-page documents coming from insurance industry. Goal was to leverage built-in features of Azure Document Intelligence only. I will show samples of original files, explain options we tried and present outcome from most successful one, also sharing tips&tricks for those of you facing similar challenge.
Global Azure Greece 2024 User group Sessionize Event Upcoming
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