August 2011 Event
August 2011 Event
Abhinav Keswani, Trineo
Canterbury Tech Job Fair
- When: Tuesday 2 August, 5.00pm registration & drinks, 5.30pm start
- Where: NZi3, University of Canterbury, 69 Creyke Road (map)
- Cost: Free for members, $10 on the door for non-members. Includes free drinks and nibbles
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Abhinav Keswani, Trineo
Building web applications using Ruby on Rails on the Heroku cloud platform
Abhinav Keswani is an avid technologist who cut his teeth running high end, web facing systems used by global media and telecommunications industries. Subsequently, his focus has been to step away from nursing data centres full of servers to rapidly delivering web applications to organisations seeking high value, robust, well tested and functionally sound outcomes. Having moved to Christchurch 3 years ago, he now runs the bespoke solutions team of Trineo Ltd - an up-and-coming cloud application development house specialising in Bespoke and Salesforce.com/Force.com solutions.
Presentation Summary: What should it take to spin up all the non-functional components of a typical web application? In todays age of rapid application development, how much time/money should business be spending on infrastructure sizing, performance, security, data storage - for projects that may never ultimately see the light of day? This is an examination of a cloud platform called Heroku that enables a developer to quickly spin up all the components needed to build scalable and secure web applications. The strengths and weaknesses of Heroku are examined - with an effort to describe a day in the life of cloud application development, the tools at one's disposal and the art of balancing agility with delivery of quality code.
CSI - Canterbury Tech Job Fair
At the start of the year, one of our objectives was to get closer to students and the tertiary sector. To that end, we seconded a student on to the CSI Committee. Andrei Miulescu has done a great job on the committee and he has been behind setting up the August event. Thanks Andrei.
We are pleased to have the support of the CompSoc and UC Career Hub for the event.
So the evening will be slightly different to normal and a must attend event if you will be planning to take on staff in the next 12 months or you want to gauge the talent coming out of the Universities these days.
The audience will include a large group of computer science, information systems and electrical, mechatronics and computer engineering students. The students will be either recent graduates or graduating soon and they are keen to get an understanding of the employment opportunities in the Canterbury.
In the past, CSI has felt that the large multi-national tech companies and a couple of high profile local companies seem to get "first dibs" on the good students. If it is one thing that our many successful HiTech members are good at, and that is keeping a low profile locally - sometimes to the point they register as no profile!
CSI is passionate about educating students of the huge range of challenging career options within our member base. We also need to outline that working for a small company, they are given the opportunity to quickly transform from a "little cog in the wheel to a significant spoke".
Job Fair Intro: we have a range of quick fire speakers to set the scene; first the Guv will overview who the company is, what they do, and the types of staff they are after, followed by a recent new grad staff member to describe what it's really like working for a company no one has ever heard of! AdScale Laboratories Ltd, SLI-Systems, Cortexo, Alchemy.
Impromptu Bidders: Member companies will then have the chance to stand up and give their brief elevator pitch for prospective employees. If are planning on hiring a student, and would like to be an impromptu bidder or have a table top space, then register directly with David Johnstone or emaildavid@peopleresults.co.nz
The evening continues over drinks and nibbles and member companies can set up a table top job fair space and talk to students about their company and the sorts of work opportunities they have coming up.
Table Top: Bring along a company roll-up banner or poster, a few company overviews, a form for students to register interest and some gimmick thing to catch their attention.
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