4:00pm: Registration, Networking, Bites
5:00: Kick-off by North America Google Developer Ecosystem Team
5:20: GDG Portland Welcome
5:30: Tech Talk 1: Joshua Alphonse (Tiktok)
6:15: Tech Talk 2: Bhasker Allene (Google)
7:00: Wrap up, networking
8:00: Event Ends (Optional: no-host cocktails at Departure rooftop lounge - The Nines)
**Admittance = first-come, first-served **
1) Bring your RSVP voucher and complete registration at the front desk
2) You'll receive a personalized visitor badge. Office is 5th floor
3) Hoping to accommodate everyone - otherwise if approaching capacity, latecomers may be turned away. 🤞
ByteDance (Tiktok)
Developer Advocate
Data Analytics Lead
Joshua is an award-winning Developer Advocate, speaker, and engineer from New York. As a Developer Advocate for ByteDance Open Source Program Office (OSPO), Joshua has spent his time empowering developers to create innovative solutions using cutting-edge open-source technologies. Previously, Joshua worked at Wix leading Product and R&D engagements for their Developer Relations Team. He successfully created content, tutorials and curated events for the web development community.
Joshua has made many notable contributions to open-source technologies such as ByConity, RSPack, Codux by Wix. His expertise spans across various programming languages and platforms, including web development, mobile app development, and cloud computing. In addition to being a Developer Advocate, Joshua is also a musician and a mentor for aspiring developers.
Bhasker Allene is a data analytics leader and data architect with over 20 years of experience in building data platforms and leading data teams. He is currently a Customer Engineer at Google, where he helps customers design, build, and manage their data analytics solutions.
Prior to Google, Bhasker was Associate CTO at SADA, where he was responsible for the company's high-performance computing (HPC) practice. In this role, he led the development and implementation of HPC solutions for a variety of customers, including Fortune 500 companies.
Bhasker has also held data leadership positions at Intel, IBM, and other companies. In these roles, he has driven significant impact by building and enabling data analytics and professional services teams. He is also a co-founder of a Big Data consulting company, which was acquired by Intel.
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