DevOps Exchange - Toronto, Ft. Finastra, Wave HQ, KPMG

The DevOps Exchange - Toronto returns on the 18th April, hosted by our good friends at KPMG in Downtown Toronto.

Following the success of our first ever event last month, for our next event we welcome to the stage 3 great companies including; financial software company Finastra, Software Development business Wave and finally our hosts at KPMG.

We'll hear from Hariprasad Duba at Finastra on the importance of Source Code Management within the DevOps world, Dan Green at Wave HQ will talk us through why they decided to migrate to Kubernetes and how this fitted into the company's DevOps transformation. Finally our hosts KPMG will be talking about all things around NLP tools and their capabilities.

The event will consist of 3 x 20 minutes talks starting at 7pm. Please see the agenda below and we hope to see you all there!

If you would like to register for this event via our Meetup page instead, please click here.

Agenda:

6:30pm - Arrive and drinks

Hariprasad Duba, Head of DevOps @ Finastra Effective Source Code Management in DevOps world

This talk is about various concepts and important aspects of Source Code Management and Hari discusses about some effective thoughts on branching, artifact promotion, and release deployments to target environments.

Bio: With over 7 years of DevOps experience and 23 years working within the IT sector, Hariprasad is currently working as a Head of DevOps at Finastran. His expertise lies within Solutions, Strategy, Process and Frameworks.

Dan Green, Senior Engineering Manager @ Wave HQ To Kubernetes and Beyond: A brief history of modernization at Wave HQ

Dan will be talking a bit about Wave, why they decided to migrate to Kubernetes, and how it fits into their DevOps transformation.

Bio: Dan Green is an DevOps evangelist and management nerd leading an amazing team at Wave.

Griffin Tanner, Data Scientist @ KPMG NLP Tools and their Capabilities

ChatGPT has recently taken the spotlight in the domain of NLP, but there are some useful tools for building robust NLP solutions which should not be overlooked. SpaCy is an NLP library for Python which provides tools for textual information extraction. Hugging Face is an AI community which develops NLP tools and hosts a repository for models and datasets. Together, these tools can be used to perform powerful document analysis. Griffin will take us through some of these tools and their capabilities.

Bio: Griffin is a data scientist, consultant in KPMG's Lighthouse practice, where he works primarily to develop Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions within ETL pipelines. He is a graduate of Queen's University where he completed his degree in computer engineering with a focus on data analytics. Griffin has previous work experience in the field of autonomous driving, where he developed prognostics algorithms for vehicle hardware.

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Please ensure you RSVP as soon as possible to secure your space.

We look forward to seeing you on the night!

All the best, The DOXTOR team @thedoxhub

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