My education was focused on the earth sciences (geophysics, carbonate geology) and computer science (data analytics); and previous work experience was geared toward data science and plug-in development for the energy industry. Technical skills: Python (10 years) and R (4 years), with 2 years' experience building data science products using Hadoop and its associated dongles (especially Spark). When I'm not sitting in front of glowing rectangular screens at work, I absolutely adore hiking / kayaking / mountain-biking around Texas' glorious Green Belt; resuscitating Apples; and (poorly!) attempting to play bass guitar. Personal passions are sustainable energy and climate change research; STEM education reform; and empowering local governments via data science https://twitter.com/DynamicWebPaige
My education was focused on the earth sciences (geophysics, carbonate geology) and computer science (data analytics); and previous work experience was geared toward data science and plug-in development for the energy industry. Technical skills: Python (10 years) and R (4 years), with 2 years' experience building data science products using Hadoop and its associated dongles (especially Spark). When I'm not sitting in front of glowing rectangular screens at work, I absolutely adore hiking / kayaking / mountain-biking around Texas' glorious Green Belt; resuscitating Apples; and (poorly!) attempting to play bass guitar. Personal passions are sustainable energy and climate change research; STEM education reform; and empowering local governments via data science https://twitter.com/DynamicWebPaige
Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Brian is a a senior program manager working on Visual Studio Code and JavaScript on Azure at Microsoft and he's all about developers, developers, developers. Previously, he was a JavaScript engineer at Netflix, LinkedIn and Reddit. When not working, Brian finds time to teach on Frontend Masters, run his mouth at Front End Happy Hour, travel all over the world and play with his adorable dog. Brian is currently a resident of Seattle, WA.
The cloud is growing ever nearer to us. Our personal computers are becoming more-and-more attached to the cloud as movies, music, files, and services no longer reside as ones and zeros in on our hard disks but as ephemeral manifestations, summoned in a moment and just-as-quickly released. The cloud is becoming our operating system.
We as developers are ironically slow to adapt our development tools. Many of us still use editors written in the 70s. Only in recent years have parts of this tooling been modernizing.
Brian will show you what a glimpse of that futuristic workflow looks like within the context of Visual Studio Code. He'll provide a sweeping view of what's new in Visual Studio Code like the Remote extension, Live Share and other new shiny tools for you to play with today, for free.