Git Merge 2017

Speakers

Karen Sandler

Executive Director, Software Freedom Conservancy

Karen M. Sandler is the executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy. Karen is known for her advocacy for free software, particularly as a cyborg in relation to the software on medical devices. Prior to joining Conservancy, she was executive director of the GNOME Foundation. Before that, she was general counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center. Karen co-organizes Outreachy, the award-winning outreach program for women. She is also pro bono lawyer to the FSF and GNOME. Karen is a recipient of the O’Reilly Open Source Award and cohost of the oggcast Free as in Freedom.

Session:

10:00 - 10:30 Intro & Welcome - Software Freedom Conservancy

Carlos Martin Nieto

Infrastructure Engineer, GitHub

Carlos works in the Git Infrastructure team, responsible for keeping the Git data safe and accessible.

Session:

10:45 - 11:15 Top Ten Worst Repositories to host on GitHub

Saeed Noursalehi

Principal Program Manager, Visual Studio Team Services, Microsoft

Saeed is on the Visual Studio Team Services team at Microsoft, focused on helping some very large teams within Microsoft migrate to Git. Among other things, this means solving some hard scale problems in Git, which is a great source of fun. He also enjoys rock climbing, road biking, and music.

Session:

11:15 - 11:45 Scaling Git at Microsoft

Santiago Perez De Rosso

PhD student, Software Design Group, MIT

Santiago P. De Rosso is a PhD student in the Software Design Group at MIT. He used to work at Google, developing tools to make engineers more productive. He currently spends most of his time thinking about how to make software, and the process of software engineering, better.

Session:

11:45 - 12:15 What’s Wrong With Git?

Caren Garcia

Implementation Engineer, BazaarVoice

Caren is an Implementation Engineer at BazaarVoice in Austin, Texas. She's an organizer for her local chapter of Women Who Code, a perennial optimist and enjoys delicious German beers, fika, tacos and travel. She is an Alumna and Teaching Assistant at the University of Texas.

Session:

13:30 - 14:00 Git: The Tool Loved and (sometimes) Feared

Durham Goode

Tech Lead, Source Control, Facebook

Durham is the tech lead on the Source Control team at Facebook. He has spent the past 4 years making distributed version control scale to some of the largest repositories in the world. He has helped teach thousands of engineers to use source control and has a keen interest in making it more approachable to everyone.

Session:

14:00 - 14:30 Scaling Mercurial at Facebook: Insights from the Other Side

Lars Schneider

Technical Lead, Git Solutions, Autodesk

Lars is the technical lead for Git at Autodesk, working out of Berlin, Germany. His current work involves migrating large codebases to Git, establishing Git workflows within teams, and maintaining a GitHub Enterprise instance. He is a Git contributor, the author of the ShowInGitHub Xcode plugin, and an avid kiteboarder.

Session:

14:45 - 15:15 Git LFS at Light Speed

Taylor Blau

Infrastructure Engineer, GitHub

Taylor is an engineer on the Git Ecosystem team at GitHub, where he helps maintain Git LFS.

Session:

14:45 - 15:15 Git LFS at Light Speed

Tim Pettersen

Bitbucket Developer, Atlassian

Tim is a Bitbucket developer by day, and Git evangelist by night. His current technology passions are serverless architecture, Git, Node.js, game dev, and DevOps - but he'll talk to you about anything shiny and tech-related really. When Tim's not developing or talking about code, he likes riding mountain bikes and eating good Mexican food, which is unfortunate because he lives 13,000km from Mexico. Tim writes about all things Git here, here, here, and sometimes here -- and way too much here

Session:

15:15 - 15:45 Git Aliases of the Gods!

Tamir Gefen

ALM\SCM expert, ALMtoolbox

Tamir Gefen is the founder of ALMtoolbox, a company that provides add-on solutions for variety of ALM \ DevOps tools. He's SCM & ALM professional with more than 15 years of hands-on experience of methodologies and tools. He also enjoys playing guitar and piano.

Session:

16:00 - 16:10 Lightning Talk / Lessons Learned: Transforming from ClearCase to Git

Meredith L. Patterson

Software Engineer and Security Researcher, Mautinoa Technologies

A software engineer and security researcher living in Brussels, Belgium, Meredith L. Patterson co-chairs the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Workshop on Language-Theoretic Security. Meredith founded the field of Language-Theoretic Security in 2005. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. in linguistics.

Session:

16:10 - 16:20 Lightning Talk / Git: The Original Blockchain

Santiago M. Mola

Lead Data Engineer, source(d)

Santiago is the Lead Data Engineer at source{d}, working on a pipeline to analyze all open source found online.

Session:

16:20 - 16:30 Lightning Talk / go-git: A Pure Go Implementation of Git

Cornelius Schumacher

Senior Software Developer and Engineering Manager, SUSE Linux

Cornelius has been an open source contributor for more than a decade. He currently works for SUSE Linux as a Senior Software Developer and Engineering Manager, and he is a committer to Cloud Foundry.

Session:

16:30 - 17:00 Git for Pair Programming

Thordur Bjornsson

Software Developer, Yubico

Thordur Bjornsson is a pragmatic and result-oriented developer who cares deeply about resilience, robustness, and reliability. He has over a decade of experience hacking on databases, protocols, storage, and open source operating systems.