Brian Sletten
ÜberConf
Denver · July 18 - 21, 2017
Forward Leaning Software Engineer @ Bosatsu Consulting
Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, AI/ML, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.
Presentations
Machine Learning: Overview
Machine Learning is a huge, deep field. Come get a head start on how you can learn about how machines learn.
Machine Learning: Natural Language Processing
Documents contain a lot of information. We'll introduce you to a variety of techniques to extract them.
Machine Learning: TensorFlow
This open source machine learning framework from Google has taken off. Come learn what you can do with it in your own organization.
Electron : Cross-Platform Desktop Apps Meet the Web
For the last 20-30 years, there has been a never-ending set of solutions for building cross-platform desktop applications. Most of them suck. Electron is one that doesn't.
It is a new solution that forms the basis of the Atom Editor, Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, the Slack app and more.
Come see what happens when you combine the best of the Web, Node.js and Chromium to provide attractive, modern, flexible, useful, consistent cross-platform desktop applications.
Macaroons: More Cookie Than Cookie
Understand a modern, flexible and decentralized way to provide authorization controls on resources and microservices
Google Research has given us Macaroons (no, not the fancy, delicious cookies). Google’s Macaroons are an authorization model with support for contextually controlled caveats and the simplicity of a regular cookie. This allows a fine-grained and flexible approach to delegating privilege to principals in a decentralized way, allowing you to protect resources.
Pony : (Not) Yet Another Programming Language
Java, Scala, Python, Ruby, Javascript, Go, Clojure, Swift, Rust, Haskell… ARRRRRGH! What the heck is Pony?
Pony is a new open-source, object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance language. Come learn about why you want to learn more about it.
Web Security Workshop
If you're not terrified, you're not paying attention.
Publishing information on the Web does not require us to just give it away. We have a series of tools and techniques for managing identity, authentication, authorization and encryption so we only share content with those we trust.
Before we tackle Web Security, however, we need to figure out what we mean by Security. We will pull from the worlds of Security Engineering and Software Security to lay the foundation for technical approaches to protecting our web resources. We will also discuss the assault on encryption, web security features and emerging technologies that will hopefully help strengthen our ability to protect what we hold dear.
Web Security Workshop
If you're not terrified, you're not paying attention.
Publishing information on the Web does not require us to just give it away. We have a series of tools and techniques for managing identity, authentication, authorization and encryption so we only share content with those we trust.
Before we tackle Web Security, however, we need to figure out what we mean by Security. We will pull from the worlds of Security Engineering and Software Security to lay the foundation for technical approaches to protecting our web resources. We will also discuss the assault on encryption, web security features and emerging technologies that will hopefully help strengthen our ability to protect what we hold dear.
Machine Learning Workshop
Machine Learning is all the rage, but many developers have no idea what it is, what they can expect from it or how to start to get into this huge and rapidly-changing field. The ideas draw from the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Numerical Analysis, Statistics and more. These days, you'll generally have to be a CUDA-wielding Python developer to boot. This workshop will gently introduce you to the ideas and tools, show you several working examples and help you build a plan to for diving deeper into this exciting new field.