Workshop: Beyond Senior Engineer - Developing your Career as an Architect

Join us on April 21 to learn to think like an architect and incorporate the function of architecture into your current position or move into a architecture role.  This hands-on workshop will cover both the soft and hard skills of an architect, including how to communicate ideas, how to apply common patterns to technical problems, and the qualities of robust design.  We will work through the design of a familiar scenario from problem statement to final solution in small teams.   This workshop will be taught by Amber Milavec. Amber is a Principal Technical Architect at Nike. She is also the founder of We Code Hackathon. Amber's expertise lies in open source, linux, microservice architecture, domain driven design, high availability, performance, security, automation, agile methodologies, bocce ball, and unicorns! Ann Wallace will be a TA for this workshop! Ann Wallace is a Technical Cloud Consultant at Google focusing on kubernetes, security and SRE. Before Google Ann spent 14 years at Nike in various engineering and architecture roles. CloudNOW named her one of the top 10 Women in Cloud in 2015. When not working, Ann can be found ultra-trail running around the world – and yes, she still runs in Nikes. Lunch will be provided. Thank you Alchemy Code Lab and Google for sponsoring this workshop! Pre-Reqs People at the mid to senior level looking to progress their career as an individual contributor. At least 5 years in a technical role, 3 years as a developer. Full stack experience.  Curious about architecture.  There are no refunds available for this event. You can transfer the ticket to someone else or donate it to the community if your plan changes. We have scholarships available for anyone who is a student, under-employed, or in need of financial assistance. You can apply for the scholarship by filling out this form. Code of Conduct By coming to this workshop, you agree to our Code of Conduct (https://github.com/WomenWhoCode/guidelines-resources/blob/master/code_of_conduct.md).  If you feel uncomfortable at any point, please contact portland@womenwhocode.com or pull a volunteer aside during the meetup.