From Cardiff to Google and everything in between

A seminar to discuss the life of a developer and how technology companies like Google are adapting to meet challenges within the industry.

Location: Room C/2.07, Queen's Buildings, School of Computer Science and Informatics.
Date: 25 October 2017, 14:00

The Chair for this seminar will be Yukun Lai.

Abstract

I'd like to talk a little about my journey. I graduated from Cardiff University in 1991, and have been very successful in my career in technology. I've worked for startups as well as large enterprises like Reuters, Microsoft, IBM and presently Google.

I'd also like to talk about what I call 'the habits of highly successful developers' and how the product I presently work on, Firebase, is designed to meet those habits so that all developers can take advantage of them.

Given the challenges facing independent developers in particular, the goal is to show where the industry is going and how tech giants like Google are adapting to meet it.

Biography

Laurence Moroney is a Staff Developer Advocate at Google, working on Firebase, Cloud and Google Maps. He's the author of 20 programming books, hundreds of articles in various journals, several novels and a movie. He has spoken about technology in conferences around the world, regularly keynoting about the state of the developer ecosystem and the trajectory it is on.

Laurence graduated with a joint degree in Physics and Computer Science. He's delighted to come back to speak with students about careers in technology and what it's like to work for the likes of Google, Microsoft, IBM and others.