Jeffrey Theobald
Sr. Software EngineerZendesk
Jeff has spent the last two years locked inside his apartment, doing nothing but staring at a computer screen. Coincidentally this is also what he has done for the last decade in the software industry. Jeff has worked on all kinds of data processing systems in all kinds of frameworks and has developed a healthy mistrust of all of them. He is currently tech lead of a team in Zendesk providing datastore infrastructure. When he is not experiencing a range of emotions at computers, he spends his time practising drums, talking to his cat and making up excuses to avoid exercise.
Talks I've Given
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My Awful Ex-Datasystems
Featuring Jeffrey Theobald
We've all experienced heartbreak, spent long nights wallowing away in disappointment, entire weeks ruined by the smallest of mistakes, all the time wondering why on earth you keep trying when nothing seems to change. Data systems. They break your heart. In this session we'll dive into...
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Intermediate Datasets and Complex Problems
Featuring Jeffrey Theobald
We often build data processing systems by starting from simple cases and slowly adding functionality. Usually, a system like this is thought of as a set of operations that take raw data and create meaningful output. These operations tend to organically grow into monoliths, which become very hard...
data