GDG Cloud Sydney is back for a meetup this April! Join us for an evening of interesting technical talks.

Come Hire!

There are 10 minutes dedicated to the meetup for hirers to advertise their recruitment and for job seekers to promote themselves to those hirers.

This meetup is in the in-person format, there are no plans to stream the event*

Partners

This meetup is organised in partnership with Mantel Group. They harness technologies that transform business operations in the real world. With capabilities spanning Cloud, Data, Digital and Security, they merge emerging technologies with innovative design and industry expertise to enhance your business. With deep technical specialisation and as leading Amazon, Google and Microsoft cloud partners, the depth and breadth our solutions offer is unparalleled. Mantel Group is your partner for end-to-end digital transformation.

Ranked in Australia's top 10 Best Workplaces by Great Place To Work Australia for four years in a row, we are people-focused and uphold strong values. Our culture champions trust, empowerment, and diversity, with a lean structure that emphasises collaboration, direct communication and equity.

Our other partnership is with Dented Code.

"Dented Code teaches coding skills that you need to become a full stack developer and help you advance your career, pursue your dream job, or enjoy the freedom of life as a freelancer." - Learn more on their website.

We will also give out 2 licenses from JetBrains 1-year subscription to any of JetBrains' IDEs with a raffle. You can use the 100% discount code on CLion, DataGrip, DataSpell, GoLand, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, PhpStorm, PyCharm, ReSharper, ReSharper C++, Rider, RubyMine, WebStorm, or dotUltimate.

Talks

Talk 1: Selling Shovels in the AI Gold Rush by Dheerendra Nath

About the speaker:

Dheerendra is an avid proponent of data-backed decision-making with a flair for big data, analytics, and business intelligence. He is passionate about designing well-architected modern software solutions on the Google Cloud Platform. Dheerendra loves architecting enterprise solutions and enjoys coding to solve complex technical and business problems.

On a day-to-day basis, he leads architecture, solution design, and development to solve complex real-world problems involving Big Data, speed, volume, and scale. A strong advocate for automation, Dheerendra implements it across infrastructure, patterns, reports, and configuration.

Talk 2: You build it, Google runs it (serverlessly) in containers by Geshan Manandhar

Focus on your application’s features by running and scaling out containers in a serverless way, managed by Google. Scaling to billions of users is something Google knows very well. You don’t need to know Kubernetes to scale applications on the cloud. Learn how to operate containers on Cloud Run to propel your company ahead even without a DevOps engineer. In this session, we’ll explore other GCP services like Cloud Build, and Cloud Logging to help you achieve business goals. ​​You’ll gain practical knowledge and useful tips on running most workloads on serverless containers that can scale to zero when there is no traffic.

About the speaker:

Geshan is a seasoned software engineer, with over 15 years of software engineering experience. Currently, in Sydney, Australia serving Simply Wall St. as a senior software engineer. He prioritizes business value over language or framework choices, showcasing his language-agnostic approach. He has spoken at tech conferences in multiple countries. Actively involved with the developer community, he is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and a GDG organizer too.

Event Schedule:

5:30pm - Event doors open

6:00pm - Introduction and hiring connect for those hiring/wanting to be hired (5 for each group and every individual gets 1 min max)

6:15pm - Talk1: Selling Shovels in the AI Gold Rush by Dheerendra Nath

06:45pm - Talk 2: You build it, Google runs it (serverlessly) in containers by Geshan Manandhar 

7:30pm - Raffle for the 2 JetBrains IDE licenses

7:45pm - Event end