Portfolio of Keith ElderKeynote Presentations and Speaking Engagements
Keynotes
Delivery of Things Keynote
Oct 25th, 2017
Abstract
Startups tend to be known for creating disruptive apps. But, how does a company like Quicken Loans, with over 30 years of history, stay vibrant, forward thinking and disrupt an industry? The answer is simple — a great culture. This is the untold story of how Rocket Mortgage was built from behind the scenes and how it ultimately disrupted the FinTech industry. During this keynote we'll go back in time and learn:
- How we pivoted over 500 team members in just a couple hours with no plan in place
- Hurdles overcome on this multi-year journey
- What happened on national launch day as the clock was ticking down
- How innovation and our culture drive technology
If you love a great technology backstory, join us as I share how our culture plays a critical role in how technology is built.
DevLink 2011 Keynote
I presented "Simplicity is Genius" to roughly 1,500 developers. The keynote spoke about our culture. I know personally multiple team members that work here now where that keynote planted the seed about our FOC. Ones that quickly come to mind are:
- Chris Woodruff
- Chris Roland
- Michael Eaton (no longer here)
- Jason Follas
- Brian Friesen
- Anson Smith
Recorded Presentations
The following are a list of presentations I've given.
Robotic Process Automation
Date: 3/12/2019
The Research and Prototyping team is happy to present our findings for the first quarter of 2019 involving Robotic Process Automation (RPA). This video walks through what RPA is, how it works, where we should use it and shows multiple demos using RPA.
Building A Highly Scalable Service that Survived A Super Bowl
ABSTRACT
Would you bet your career and your company's reputation on a technology you've never used in front of 110 million people tuned into a Super Bowl commercial? Well, I did. And I was a nervous wreck! We were launching a new product during a commercial at the Super Bowl 302 days away, and I was betting everything on a technology we had never used in production. I spent countless nights wavering back and forth thinking about the millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of person hours that were on the line. Everything was resting on the shoulders of this one web service that had to handle the excessive load placed upon it when our commercial aired. The technology chosen was Erlang, a mystical, functional, dynamically compiled language that was very foreign to this eight-time Microsoft MVP. This is a story about picking the right tool for the right job, exploring other possibilities, and the difference between playing with technology and putting it into production. As a noted storyteller, I'll take you on the journey of:
- how we stumbled upon Erlang during our dedicated innovation time
- what made it so special that we were willing to take such a risk
- what we learned along the way
- how it performed
- and would we do it again
If you love a great technology story, I hope you'll join me for this tale of how this web service, built in unproven technology to us, survived Super Bowl Sunday.
***The following was presented at CODE BEAM San Francisco May 24th, 2019. ***
Other Presentations
Rockworld
ERB
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