As Head of AI Community Engagement, Dave runs events such as hackathons that help developers learn how to use GenAI developer tools like LLMs and MongoDB Vector Search. Dave graduated from Cal Poly: SLO and has worked in developer relations at companies like PayPal, Strikeiron, Redis, Intel, Traceable, Dremio, Harness and now MongoDB. Dave gained modest notoriety when he proposed to his girlfriend in the book "PayPal Hacks"

Presentations

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Innovating Software Delivery Harnessing Generative AI in DevOps and DevSecOps

 This workshop explores the integration and impact of generative AI tools in DevOps and DevSecOps. We aim to comprehensively understand how tools like Large Language Models (LLMs), LangChain, LangSmith, and vector databases  (RAGS) can be effectively utilized in modern software delivery and security practices.

 

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Reliability is no Accident: Chaos Engineering and GameDays

This talk will dive deep into the three keep practices identified by the authors of Accelerate to improve reliability: Chaos Engineering, GameDays, and Disaster Recovery. We will discuss the key measures of tempo and stability, and how practicing Chaos Engineering will increase both.

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Redis Functions and Data Structures

In this talk, Dave Nielsen, Developer Advocate at Redis Labs, will share the functions and data structures used by Redis developers to solve common scalability challenges facing web scale companies. 

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