Presentation: Actor-Based Architectures AMA w/ Yaroslav Tkachenko, Kiki Carter & Jonas Boner

Track: Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)

Location: Redgrave, 2nd flr.

Duration: 5:25pm - 6:15pm

Day of week: Tuesday

Level: Intermediate

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Speaker: Yaroslav Tkachenko

Sr Software Engineer @Demonware building Activision's Call of Duty

Yaroslav Tkachenko is a software engineer interested in distributed systems, microservices, functional programming, modern cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices. Currently Yaroslav is a Senior Software Engineer at Demonware (Activision), working on a large-scale data pipeline. Prior to joining Demonware Yaroslav held various leadership roles in multiple startups. He was responsible for designing, developing, delivering and maintaining platform services and cloud infrastructure for mission critical systems.

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Speaker: Kiki Carter

Building on Reactive Architectures @Lightbend

Kiki Carter is a Principal Enterprise Architect at Lightbend, Inc. 

I have a passion for leading enterprise transformations, creating innovative solutions using emerging technologies to modernize heritage environments. I find a certain joy developing large scale, high performance distributed systems using Reactive Principles, especially when building with Lightbend Reactive Platform - Akka and friends. I have slight Scala bias, but at least half of my time is spent with Java. I enjoy the benefits of broad industry experience having worked in entertainment, hospitality, retail, life science and others. I do play favorites, but you’ll have to ask on the right day. My personal passion project involves non-profit missions in anti human trafficking with focus on prevention and aftercare. For fun, I live “simultaneously” on different continents and wander all the earth and seas between.

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Speaker: Jonas Bonér

Founder & CTO @Lightbend / Creator of Akka

Founder and CTO of Lightbend, inventor of the Akka project, initiator and co-author of the Reactive Manifesto and a Java Champion. Learn more at: http://jonasboner.com

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