Raju Gandhi
RWX / CDX
Fort Lauderdale · November 27 - 30, 2012
Founder, DefMacro Software
Raju is a software craftsman with almost 20 years of hands-on experience scoping, architecting, designing, implementing full stack applications.
He provides a 360 view of the development cycle, is proficient in a variety of programming languages and paradigms, experienced with software development methodologies, as well an expert in infrastructure and tooling.
He has long been in the pursuit of hermeticism across the development stack by championing immutability during development (with languages like Clojure), deployment (leveraging tools like Docker and Kubernetes), and provisioning and configuration via code (toolkits like Ansible, Terraform, Packer, everything-as-code).
Raju is a published author, internationally known public speaker and trainer.
Raju can be found on Twitter as @looselytyped.
In his spare time, you will find Raju reading, playing with technology, or spending time with his wonderful (and significantly better) other half.
Presentations
Web Application Design from a Developer's perspective
Poorly designed web applications fail to serve both the business and the users, leading to a unnecessary costs, and frustrated customers. By keeping the user in mind, and following a few simple guidelines, you can make huge leaps in the way your users interact with your applications.
Creating Websites using Noir
Think Clojure is only for the back-end functional geeks? Think again. Noir is a web application framework written in Clojure.
Dive into D3.js
A picture is indeed a thousand words. Often, your users are better served if they are offered a visual representation of data than reams and reams of tables. Most JavaScript graphing libraries offer a DSL to create graphs, but can prove to be constricting if you are attempting to do something outside the original intent. D3.js, instead offers you an API to work with “data documents” - with powerful data manipulation capabilities, and visualization components. Furthermore, it leverages SVG rather than the Canvas element, allowing you to unleash the full power of CSS3 to style your latest creation.