Bloomberg tech Talk: Engineering Software to Last
Becky Plummer
Software Engineering Team Lead
DEIB - Seminar Room (building 20, ground floor)
October 12th, 2018
12:00 pm
Contacts:
Marco Santambrogio
Research Line:
System architectures
Abstract
The goals of building software in a professional environment are vastly different from those of a course assignment. In this talk, we'll cover the differences between the environments, best practices during development and tips from years of experience with troubleshooting production issues.
Short Bio
Becky Plummer is the software engineering team leader responsible for content collaboration applications for the Bloomberg Terminal and the Global Head of the Engineering Champions Program. Becky made a name for herself as a software engineer by creating the trade confirmation alerting system that was fully crash recoverable for the Bloomberg Fixed Income Electronic Trading platform. She created the Engineering Champions program in 2011 to empower developers to influence change and collaborate on improving the development environment tools. Finally, she has run both small scale implementation projects as well as cross engineering projects including hundreds of developers. She is a graduate of University of Maine and Columbia University with a Master’s degree in Computer Science. Joined Bloomberg LP in New York in 2006 and moved to London in 2014 to gain a global perspective.