Brian Sletten
Salt Lake Software Symposium
Salt Lake City · July 14 - 15, 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.