During the month of November, we are hosting a big, big Firebase festival. Learn the basics, advance your knowledge with our experts! Every Wednesday evening brings a new opportunity to learn.
The second event builds more momentum, with Firebase Google Developer Expert from Belgium, Renaud Tarnec, giving a deep-dive of Firebase Cloud Functions. Freelance software engineer and Firebase aficionado, Sylvia Dieckmann will be speaking about protecting your cloud data with Firebase Security Rules.
Engineering Manager
rta Consulting
Google Developer Expert for Firebase
Sylvia is a seasoned software engineer with interests in mobile/web development, client/server architectures, and scalable systems. Most recently, her focus has been on Flutter and Firebase with some native Android work thrown in for good measure.
She has held many positions over the years, most recently as technical manager in the South African non-profit sector, but in 2020 she returned to her roots as a freelance app developer.
Sylvia is active in the Cape Town developer community and currently leads the GDG Cape Town chapter.
Renaud Tarnec is a Google Developer Expert for Firebase and a full-stack web application developer and architect with 20+ years of experience, exclusively in IT services companies.
He is passionate about crafting user-centric digital tools and, over the years, he has developed many business web apps like collaborative work platforms, workflow applications, transactional e-banking and e-commerce websites.
His expertise covers all stages of the application development life-cycle, from business/functional analysis, technical analysis, architecture and design, development and testing, up to production deployment and application maintenance.
Based in Brussels, Belgium, Renaud is a freelance consultant and runs his own company, rta Consulting, serving customers of various domains and sizes. For the past three years, he has been working with all the Firebase services, in particular Cloud Functions, Cloud Firestore and Cloud Storage. He loves them so much – to the extent that today, all of his client web app development projects are based on Firebase!
When not working on projects, Renaud enjoys sharing knowledge with fellow developers on Stack Overflow, in particular for the “firebase”, "google-cloud-firestore" and "google-cloud-functions" tags.
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Luno
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