Christopher Judd
TechLeader Summit
Clearwater · December 5 - 7, 2018
CTO of Manifest Solutions
Christopher Judd is CTO and partner at Manifest Solutions (http://www.manifestcorp.com), an international speaker, Java Champion, an open source evangelist, and the Central Ohio Java Users Group (http://www.cojug.org) leader. He is an accomplished writer having co-authored Beginning Groovy and Grails (Apress, 2008), Enterprise Java Development on a Budget (Apress, 2003) and Pro Eclipse JST (Apress, 2005) as well as the author of the children’s book “Bearable Moments”. Based in Columbus Ohio, he has spent over 20 years architecting and developing software for organizations ranging from Fortune 50 companies to start-ups across various industries including insurance, health care, education, retail, government, manufacturing, service, and transportation. Mr. Judd spends most of his time consulting while continuing to focus on mentoring and training in Java, mobile and related technologies.
Presentations
Is Serverless Really Less?
Serverless, Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) and Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) are the new rage. They promise less cost, less hardware, less operations people and less time to market. But is it really less? What is serverless? Is it different than what you are doing today? Is it the right direction and architecture for your business? What are its strengths and weaknesses? How does it impact your development and operations processes? This session will answer all your questions about serverless and help you determine if it an approach worth pursuing.
How to Prepare and Train Young Technical Talent
According to every metric half of the IT industry has less then 5 years of experience. This fact identifies a challenge of skill gap that most organizations are not prepared handle. As leaders, we need to help young talent to fill their gaps to become productive contributors quickly. This session will provide strategies and lessons learned from hiring and training over 130 recent college grads over the last 7 years through an immersive bootcamp and oversight. You will learn how to make your young talent more successful and therefor your organization more successful.