Transforming Careers and Communities with Serverless

Two women from non-traditional backgrounds are using serverless to help a community while aligning their personal goals with their business and career goals. In this session, learn how serverless has transformed their careers, and why they’re developing a language translation application to enable new serverless practitioners from around the world more easily access resources and training that will further their education. The session will include a build walk-through for the application on Stackery, as well as inspirational stories about the power of serverless for building a business and making an impact.

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2. © 2019, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Transforming careers and communities with Serverless S e s s i o n I D Farrah Campbell Ecosystems Director, Stackery @FarrahC32 Danielle Heberling Software Engineer, Stackery @deeheber
3. Serverless is…
4. My intro to tech was not like many I hear... Farrah
5. My intro to tech was not like many I hear Farrah
6. Trying to find balance Single mom. Found myself trying to be a part of any project that involved working with engineering or IT. Farrah
7. Obtaining my next role Volunteering at TechFest NW helped me land a job at a startup.
8. My first Startup Who is Cassandra & Jason (JSON)?
13. Danielle
14. Danielle Danielle
15. Danielle intro Danielle
16. Next Steps Applied to a bunch of positions that I seemed qualified for Ended up in tech support Danielle
17. Leveling Up Wanted to provide the better experience for customers Danielle
18. What and why We are both driven to learn, get better, & build skills. Marketing and Engineering work hand in hand. Farrah wants to be a nerd. Danielle desires to connect & learn from others outside of the tech community.
19. Danielle, I am ready to build a Serverless App from Scratch, can you help? Yes, Farrah, what would you like to build? No idea, thoughts? Think on it and get back to me. :) What and Why
20. What and why Create something useful to our community & company (focus on business value). Build something helpful to a broader audience than our current customers (We are always looking for new users). Wanted an inclusive theme.
22. What and why
23. What and why #ServerlessForEveryone
24. What and why Planning • Time • Team • Easy to integrate with other systems • Select which tools to use
25. © 2019, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
26. Tools we chose