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Hi everyone! 👋

We are excited to announce our February in person event of 2025 🎉

Register now and join us for a wonderful evening hosted by Goodlord 🥳

Please provide us with your name for registration purposes.

(The Hickman, 2 Whitechapel Road, London, E1 1EW)

Agenda

• 6:00 PM - Refreshments and registration
• 6:30 PM - Welcome and a few words from hosts
• 6:40 PM - 🗣️ Job Hunt in 2024: When Life Gives You Lemons - Lula Leus
• 7:10 PM - Break
• 7:30 PM - 🗣️ The Human Factor: Evaluating Soft Skills in Engineering Candidates - Frankie Malpass and Mollie Yates 8:00 PM - Networking/Discussion
• 8:30 PM - Leave Goodlord offices. Optionally\, go to a nearby pub.

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Job Hunt in 2024: When Life Gives You Lemons Lula Leus Every software engineer goes through the process of looking for a new job from time to time, making it a constantly relevant topic. In “Job Hunt in 2024: When Life Gives You Lemons”, I share my journey as an experienced software engineer navigating a tough job market in 2024.

This talk has two objectives - give advice and provide inspiration. To achieve the first, I provide practical advice on preparing for interviews from my recent experiences. I break down the engineering hiring process into five interview types: HR Initial, Tech Initial, Live Coding/Take Home Assignment, System Design, and Behavioral Interviews. I’ll describe each type and offer actionable preparation tips, including the most helpful resources I used.

To achieve the second objective and provide inspiration, I go beyond technical “how-to” advice. I share my personal story of a four-month job search involving 60 applications and many rejections. I shine a light on numerous hours of preparation and the heartbreak of being rejected repeatedly before receiving a few precious offers I worked so hard to get.

This talk aims to help women engineers currently job hunting with ready-to-use practical tips and inspire others with a feel-good story of resilience and perseverance.

TBA Frankie Malpass TBA

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🗣️ If you'd like to give a talk at any of our events, you can sign up to be a speaker on our ongoing Call for Papers. We will then get in touch with you to find a time to present and help you prepare your talk. 💪

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🏡 Interested in hosting or supporting us? Please get in touch [email protected] and we can discuss how you can get involved.

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📣📣 Attention Airflow Users and Big Data Professionals 📣📣

Sad news- it looks like rain on our event date! We were able to secure an awesome new venue at 109 west 39th Street, and will still be enjoying delicious bites and drinks followed by insightful Airflow-centric presentations!

P.S. All attendees will receive a discounted ticket to Airflow Summit!

AGENDA

• 5:00 PM-5:30 PM: Arrivals, Eat, Drink and Network!
• 5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Presentations!
• 6:30 PM- 7:30 PM: Eat more, drink more, and network!

PRESENTATIONS

Talk #1: Mastering dbt Projects with Cosmos: Streamlining Orchestration and Boosting Productivity

• Speaker: George Yates, Senior Field Engineer at Astronomer
• Abstract: Astronomer Cosmos simplifies managing dbt projects by providing a seamless integration with robust orchestration capabilities, enabling data teams to effortlessly schedule, monitor, and maintain their dbt workflows. This talk will explore how Cosmos enhances productivity, streamlines deployment processes, and ensures the reliability of data transformations through its user-friendly interface and powerful automation features.

Talk #2: XComs x Google Sheets (Toast’s Version)

• Speaker: James Roselle, Senior Data Engineer at Toast, Inc.
• Abstract: The data engineering team at Toast leverages XComs in Airflow to write data from Snowflake to Google Sheets programmatically. James will present a deep dive on XCom use cases, implementation, and limitations.

Please note- this event is for individuals in the data space who have knowledge of and a passion for Apache Airflow. Guests who do not fit that criteria will not be permitted to enter the event.

George Yates from Astronomer will give a breakdown on the Cosmos library that allows you to visualize DBT workflows within Airflow.

Have you ever seen a one-man show in the theater? It's awesome. Unless it's terrible. The same can be said for one-person digital analytics teams. It can be awesome, in that you get to, literally, do EVERY aspect of analytics. It can be terrible because, well, you've got to do EVERYTHING, and it's easy for the fun stuff to get squeezed out of the day. On this episode, we head back Down Under for a chat with Moe Kiss, product (and digital) analyst at THE ICONIC. Whether you pronounce "data" as DAY-tuh or DAH-tuh, Moe's perspective will almost certainly motivate you find new ways to push yourself and your organization forward. People, places, things, sites, and doodads mentioned in this episode were many, and they include: R, Tableau, Snowplow, adjust, Datalicious, Moe's post on Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, Moe's post on getting started in digital analytics, Jeffalytics.com, RSiteCatalyst, The Millenial Whoop, Kabaddi, Michael Yates, ABC (the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), an Event Tracking Naming Strategy from Chris Le, Simo Ahava, Nico Miceli, and Towards Universal Event Analytics - Building an Event Grammar by Snowplow co-founder Alex Dean.