Building the Future as a full stack dev
As developers we deal with an ever-changing and always growing industry, with new and exciting ways of being able to deliver awesome projects keeping up with any one single stream is always something a developer needs to keep on top of. From backend, frontend and ops, the opportunities to build cool things within each stream is endless.
From Lua, Ruby and Node we can look at the similarities between some of the core languages and how you can use the knowledge of one to build into another, learning at least the fundamental behaviour within a stream language or bridging into a new stream.
In this talk, I will share my experience of working on projects for some big name companies as a developer and why being polyglot was an important part of being able to deliver scalable projects on time and for being able to manage a team of developers for busy and thriving digital agencies.
| Steven Cooper | Xero |  |
As a Senior Evangelist at Xero Steven Cooper is responsible for working with the strong global developer community, to develop and nurture the healthy start-up culture that continues to flourish across the region.
Among his activities in the international community Steven has helped run the acclaimed BattleHack series for PayPal/Braintree all over the world. An international speaker and mentor that has been a part of events throughout the world he loves to share knowledge and help support and grow developer communities.
Over the last 20 years, Steven has worked as a senior developer/tech lead for a host of start-ups and as a developer analyst for more than 10 years with Sensis. He has configured and spec’d mass production technology hardware for the likes of Samsung, Virgin, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Visa, St. George and Westpac.
Steven hopes to align businesses with the most appropriate solutions – products that deliver efficiency, flexibility and enable scalability.