What is Solita Core all about? Tech talks and knowledge sharing are at the core of Solita Core (pun intended). This year we’ll be talking about not just software development but also cloud architecture, service design and data engineering. Watch the recording!
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 Online: 16:00-18:30 CET
Vesa works at Solita as a senior software designer and an all-around swiss army knife of arcane talents. During the early years of his career, he created a foundation of technical know-how and a habit of pioneering the ever-changing landscape of front-end development. Nowadays he has found the promotion of soft skills to be one of his callings as a developer. He sees partaking in the creation of efficient and enjoyable teamwork experiences as his duty.
Time to Commit – Creating Productive Developers
The amount of software is growing. This leads to the number of developers growing. This in turn causes the number of projects that produces software to grow. Hence the rate of new software is accelerating.
Something needs to be done. The solution for it is still hazy. The future solution might be some low-code platform or copilot like AI or letting software work consume every human resource available. But in the meantime, we need to address this real-life problem in the present.
One of the solutions is training new developers to feed into this amorphous blob of a machine we call software development. This comes at a cost though. New developers need to be onboarded into software projects and ain’t nobody got time for that. With a bit of thinking and planning, onboarding can be tuned to produce productive developers more efficiently and with a lesser impact on the overall team efficiency.
Oskari is a developer turned cloud expert who helps organizations to adopt and utilize the cloud in a way that makes sense. He is also passionate about the DevOps mindset and loves automation. His mission is to produce sustainable IT systems for both – the business and the developers.”
Good Enough Cloud Architecture
When building systems the desired quality should always be ”good enough” – fulfilling all requirements without overengineering. However, anyone who has ever been involved in designing technical systems knows that it sounds much easier than it is.
In this talk we go through the most common sources of over- or under-engineering in cloud projects based on practical experience in mostly Azure projects. The goal is to inspire you to look at some things from a new perspective and hopefully to identify some cans of worms before opening them with overwhelming confidence.
Alexandra works at Solita remotely as a data visualisation consultant. She is passionate about building scalable self-service solutions that are meeting her clients real needs. Experience from developing data analytics in financial audit has made her keen on keeping governance and information security on top of mind.
Embrace DevOps for Secure Data Visualisation
Low-code data visualisation tools plays an important role in future tech as enabler of a data-driven culture. It is now easier than ever for any business user to share insights from larger datasets. When this development accelerates there is a risk that leaders gets blinded by fancy dashboards and miss out on addressing the risks that comes with working with critical company data.
In this keynote we will learn why low-coders should be part of our development teams and how to embrace DevOps practises for secure data visualisation.
Outi is a mother of two boys. She likes tennis, books, reflections, questioning, and learning. CHRO at Solita since 2019. Outi also wrote a book about work culture ( published by Alma Talent on Feb 2022) -Yrityskulttuurit murroksessa.
Future of Work – and why you should care?
The future of work means to all of us changes both professionally (career path, learning skills, ways of working) as well as organisationally (leadership, diversity and inclusion, business environment, sustainability etc).
In this session, we picture the future of work together and dig deeper on what are the changes we already see both professionally as well as in organisation cultures. What are the possible scenarios in the future? What will the working life look like – and why should you care?
John has a background in information engineering working on large cross-functional projects. He has also worked as a software engineer and has always been keener on the backend than the frontend. He loves his current role as a cloud engineer because he can focus on both software development and infrastructure.
Marja works at Solita as a software designer. Her passion lies in frontend development and for the past three years she has worked in Solita Health project Omaolo. She does her best work in long term projects where you can get to know the customer and their needs.
Anisa works as a Data Engineer focusing on the Master Data Management field. She is passionate about delivering high-data quality solutions that help to boost data-driven companies to achieve their business goals. Anisa joined Solita via Data Academy which helped to sharpen her technical skills in the Data Engineering professional path.
Tom works as a Senior Service Designer and people lead of Solita’s UX Design team. As a part of a cross-functional team, he operates in the multi-disciplinary interface of design, development, quality assurance, and data and analytics. As a people lead, Tom is passionate about empowering his team to succeed in cross-functional teams and developer-designer co-operation. Having experience of working both as a designer and a developer, he is specifically equipped to do so.
Karina is working as an Account Manager, Customer Success Manager, and Tableau Partnership Manager at Solita Sweden in the data unit. She joined Solita in July 2020. One of the things Karina likes is building strong relationships both with customers and colleagues. She enjoys Solitas’ open atmosphere and that all units and countries collaborate and are not siloed.
