devopsdays · ghoneycutt · Mar 14, 2025
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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "How to win at Spades... and DevOps"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["ajuna-kyaruzi"]
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+
+Spades is a cultural cornerstone in the Black American community and a
+team-based game. Winning requires cooperation and trust – things that are also
+required for successful DevOps. Learning to play is a right of passage for
+many, but often getting taught and an opportunity to safely practice is hard to
+find. In this talk, I’ll share insights to improve your DevOps practice from
+lessons learned playing the game of Spades, while also sharing the importance
+of sharing cultural knowledge to newcomers in the space.
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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Introduction to Software Supply Chain and Software Bill of Materials"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["jason-van-brackel"]
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+
+Discover how the software supply chain influences the security of your
+applications—from development all the way to deployment. In this session, we'll
+explore the concept of Software Bills of Materials (SBOM) and why they're
+crucial for identifying vulnerabilities and ensuring compliance. You'll also
+learn practical ways to generate and integrate SBOMs into your existing
+workflows, enabling you to maintain greater transparency, trust, and control
+over your software lifecycle. By the end of this session, you'll be equipped to
+proactively mitigate risks and strengthen the overall security posture of your
+applications.
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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Social Goodness || Civic Hacking - What's in it for me?"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["nerando-johnson"]
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+
+I am giving away my time and talent for free, how to I benefit from being a
+part of civic hacking?
+
+This talk will look at the benefits of being a part of the local civic hacking
+community. This talk will use some concrete examples to speak about how I have
+become a better developer and project manager through those experiences and was
+a part of a team that donated $40,000 to charity. I will also cite experiences
+and provide actionable steps learned as a developer and a community organizer,
+explain how civic hacking has helped me to grow as a developer (using examples
+from Marta Hackathons, AT&T C3 Hackathons, Civic Hack nights, Atl Thinks
+competitions).
+
+These steps include :
+=> How to use civic hacking to grow your soft skills.
+=> How to use civic hacking to grow your technical skills.
+=> How to use civic hacking as a networking tool.
+=> How to use civic hacking projects as a part of job hunting (both technically and behaviorally).
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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "AI Cram Session"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["rachellee-nabors"]
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+
+What do acronyms like RAG and GPT really mean? What is the math behind the
+"magic" of deep learning? What is a "perceptron" and why is it called a "neural
+network?" This talk demystifies AI's field of machine learning for AI-curious
+technical and non-technical audiences alike. The concepts, mental models, and
+history needed to grok are colorfully illustrated and explained. From the
+award-winning cartoonist turned engineer/keynote speaker who has taught
+millions of developers via react.dev and MDN.
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+Title = "Ajuna Kyaruzi"
+Twitter = "ajunaky"
+linkedin = "https://linkedin.com/in/ajuna"
+Website = "https://ajunaky.github.io/"
+image = "ajuna-kyaruzi.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "ajuna-kyaruzi"
+
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+
+Ajuna Kyaruzi works in Developer Relations at Datadog and cares about using
+software to help people sustainably run large-scale systems, focusing on
+Incident Managements and SLOs. She loves community building and volunteers with
+multiple mentorship programs aimed at helping early career folks break into
+tech, and ensuring they have successful careers. Previously she worked at
+Google as a Software Engineer on Google Maps and as a Site Reliability Engineer
+on Google Cloud.
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+Title = "Jason van Brackel"
+Twitter = "jasonvanbrackel"
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-van-brackel/"
+image = "jason-van-brackel.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "jason-van-brackel"
+
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+
+Jason van Brackel is an Sr. Lead Technologist at Booz Allen Hamilton and the
+founder (and former organizer) of Kubernetes Philly. Passionate about solving
+real-world problems with software development and Kubernetes, he regularly
+shares his expertise—whether he’s guiding teams at work or streaming live
+coding sessions. When he’s not tinkering with cloud-native tools, you’ll find
+him spending time with his kids or occasionally taking a spill off his
+skateboard.
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+Title = "Nerando Johnson"
+Twitter = "nerajno"
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nerando-johnson/"
+Website = "https://dev.to/nerajno"
+image = "nerando-johnson.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "nerando-johnson"
+
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+
+Current Atlanta freeCodeCamp Organizer | Software Developer
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+Title = "Rachel-Lee Nabors"
+Twitter = "rachelnabors"
+linkedin = "https://linkedin.com/in/rachelnabors"
+Website = "https://nearestnabors.com/"
+image = "rachellee-nabors.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "rachellee-nabors"
+
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+
+Rachel-Lee Nabors spent the better part of their career on web standards and
+opensource and has spearheaded developer education at FAANG and startups, on
+the React Team as well as W3C. Now they work to usher in the Agentic Web,
+bulding AgentQL, and teaching a new generation of builders that "it's not
+magic; it's just math." You can find them drinking tea in London or shadow
+boxing in Palo Alto.
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ program:
     date: 2025-04-30T17:00:00-05:00
     start_time: "11:10"
     end_time: "11:20"
-  - title: "patrick-debois"
+  - title: "talk-8"
     type: talk
     date: 2025-04-30T17:00:00-05:00
     start_time: "11:20"