Brian Sletten
ÜberConf
Denver · July 17 - 20, 2018
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 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.
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.
Taming the Blockchain with Ethereum
Bitcoin has roundly entered the public consciousness, but it is limited in its use beyond the specific constraints of the cryptocurrency. Ethereum is a new platform that has enabled developers to innovate in creating their own cryptocurrencies, platforms, smart contracts and more.
WebAssembly Workshop
What happens if Web applications become super fast?
What if the ability to write code once but run it on lots of different platforms was true again?
What if Desktops are no longer interesting because you can do everything in a browser?
What if JavaScript wasn't your only language choice?
These are all starting to happen now that this W3C Standard is supported widely across all major browser vendors, Node and more. It's never been a better time to dig into the future that is playing out now faster than most people realize.
WebAssembly Workshop
What happens if Web applications become super fast?
What if the ability to write code once but run it on lots of different platforms was true again?
What if Desktops are no longer interesting because you can do everything in a browser?
What if JavaScript wasn't your only language choice?
These are all starting to happen now that this W3C Standard is supported widely across all major browser vendors, Node and more. It's never been a better time to dig into the future that is playing out now faster than most people realize.
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.
The Decentralized Web
While the Web itself has strong decentralized aspects to how it is used, the backend technologies are largely centralized. The naming systems, the routing systems and the traffic that all points back to the same place for a website are all centralized technologies. This creates both a liability as well as a control point.
In order to break free of some of these limitations, new technologies are emerging to provide a more decentralized approach to the Web.