Title: Building a Reliable Future for Your Software Applications

Abstract: This talk focuses on building highly scalable and reliable software applications within cloud native as well as on-premise infrastructure. We will introduce the concept of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering along with taking a brief look at the evolution of software teams over the past two decades and learn about common challenges they encountered while scaling their applications. After introducing some of the concepts and principles that govern Reliability Engineering, we will take an example application and work through a systems design for this application focusing on applying the concepts we just learnt pertaining to reliability engineering. The example we will cover in the talk also serves as a good primer for any students seeking software engineering jobs in the industry post their education as Systems Design Interviews are a common part of interviewing at companies these days.

Speaker Bio: Nash is a 2014 UD alum who got his Masters degree from the CIS department with a focus on Computer Networking. Prior to arriving at UD, Nash worked at Cisco Systems back in India where he started his career as a Network Engineer. Upon completing his Masters from UD, Nash has undertaken roles as an SRE at multiple companies namely eBay, Netflix, Dropbox and Lyft where he was focused on building and scaling highly complicated infrastructure to support the companies' primary business products. Nash has also co-founded a startup in the recent past, called Scispot with his co-founder (another UD alum), and got accepted into YCombinator with his company. Post the YCombinator experience, Nash worked at a couple of other startups until accepting his current role at Wayfair. Overall, Nash has over 13 years of industry experience and is always open to helping students looking to build their careers in this space via mentorship.