Building Better Software: Lessons from Construction

Software development and construction may seem like completely different worlds, and yet we use similar terminology to describe concepts in both: infrastructure, architects, frameworks, scaffolding, foundations, builds, … Are these two processes really so similar? In this talk, I will share my experience with building a house for my family and how that changed my perspective on efficiency, quality and success in software development.


Speaker

Uroš Trebec

Senior Software Engineer @Sleuth

Uroš Trebec is a Senior Software Engineer at Sleuth.io, focused on making sure its distributed platform scales well with the customers and the team alike. He has worked on, and led, engineering teams of different sizes and maturity, always helping them grow technically as well as organizationally. Uroš has been involved with Python and Django since 2006 and is passionate about empowering engineers to make big impact with small changes.

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Date

Monday Mar 27 / 02:55PM BST ( 50 minutes )

Location

Westminster (4th Fl.)

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