Collective Problem Solving in Music, Science, Art, and Software.
Pacific Northwest Software Symposium
Seattle · October 26 - 28, 2018
About this Presentation
There's a story to tell, about musicians, artists, philosophers, scientists, and then programmers.
There's a truth inside it that leads to a new view of work, that sees beauty in the painful complexity that is software development.
Starting from The Journal of the History of Ideas, Jessica traces the concept of an “invisible college” through music and art and science to programming. She finds the dark truth behind the 10x developer, a real definition of “Senior Developer” and a new name for our work and our teams.
Lead Engineer at Atomist
Jessica Kerr is a developer of development systems. She works remotely from St. Louis, for Atomist, where she writes automations and automation infrastructure in TypeScript, Clojure, and whatever else is needed. She is a back-end developer who believes the front-end is most crucial. Jessica speaks at conferences in the US and Europe; find her on the >Code podcast (greaterthancode.com) and on Twitter and Medium as @jessitron.