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Fine-tuning Large Language Models by Dmitry Balabka at Generative AI focused 127th DevClub.lv

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So you want to be a Machine Learning engineer in the age of Generative AI and Large Language Models? by Antons Mislēvičs at Generative AI focused 127th DevClub.lv

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Announcement of Generative AI focused 127th DevClub.lv

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HI!

Yet another thrilling journey with our upcoming event, where we’ll delve into Generative AI, the next frontier of transformative technology, unlocking a world of creativity and innovation!

This time we meet on a Wednesday!

You are welcome to Generative AIfocused event on WEDNESDAY – February 28th 18:30, at C.T.Co office – Meistaru iela 33, Valdlauci, Kekavas parish, Kekavas district, LV-1076, Latvia

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Agenda for Generative AI focused 127th DevClub.lv

Antons Mislēvičs from C.T.Co will give a talk on “So you want to be a Machine Learning engineer in the age of Generative AI and Large Language Models?“.
ChatGPT was released in the end of 2022 and immediately grasped a lot of attention. People started discussing what “magical” things it can do, how it is the first AI that “understands” our world, and that soon it will leave many people without their jobs. It quickly went even to extremes, that such technology is dangerous, and should be banned or controlled by governments. In this session we will analyze what of this is hype and what is real. We will look into what the technology behind ChatGPT is (Large Language Models, Generative AI), and how such AI models are being trained. This will help us to better understand what such models can do, what are some common problems, and what you should be aware of when introducing such models in your projects. In addition, we plan to discuss what the raise of Generative AI and Large Language Models means for Machine Learning engineers – what are the core challenges, and some foundational technologies/concepts you should be familiar with.
(Language – English)
Tags: : Generative AI, Large Language Models, Machine Learning, ML Engineering

Antons is a Head of AI / Machine Learning at C.T.Co. Before joining C.T.Co he spent 10 years working as a technical consultant at Microsoft Consulting Services. He had participated in various projects of different scale and complexity in over 15 countries, designing solution architectures and supporting developers. Antons holds a PhD degree in Engineering of Computer Systems and is a regular speaker at conferences and community events.

Antons Kranga from EPAM will talk about “Building conversational language agents with Autogen.”
Autogen is an open-source tool that empowers AI engineers to build multi-agent conversations, enabling group chats using LLM-backed agents, a user and tools to solve specific problems. Many researchers believe this is the next frontier of applications beyond RAG. Join us if you’re interested in learning about the current state of COALA agents, along with their advantages and limitations.
(Language – English)
Tags: AI, LLM, RAG, Autogen, CoALA agents

Antons has over 20 years of experience in Engineering: maintaining open sources, and helping global businesses deploy their infrastructure more efficiently.

Dmitry Balabka from Intexsys will share his experience in “Fine-tuning Large Language Models“,
focusing on the hands-on process of preparing datasets and fine-tuning models for a specific business task. This session will cover dataset preparation, model fine-tuning, and cloud ML accelerators like TPUs and related libraries. It’s aimed at those seeking hands-on knowledge in applying ML techniques.
(Language – English)
Tags: Machine Learning, Data Science, AI, Large Language Models

Dmitry has extensive experience in software engineering and architecture, later shifting his focus to machine learning, where he founded and now leads the ML team. His academic research in Human Activity Recognition highlights his deep understanding of AI. As a passionate advocate for AI and ML, Dmitry is always eager to engage in professional discussions and mentorship.

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– Senior Data Scientist
– Senior Python Engineer with Cloud (Upskilling to Data)
– ML/AI Engineering Team Lead

C.T.Co employs over 600 employees, and this number keeps growing each year! We are always in search for experienced professionals, as well as young talents who are ready to grow their expertise and join our friendly company! At the moment we are actively looking for vue.js developers and .NET developers! Take your career to the next level! Join CTCo
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Levelpath is a mobile-first platform powered by AI on a simple mission: Delightful Procurement. We believe in software that’s thoughtfully engineered to solve problems and drive progress. Procurement is a huge opportunity as the market today is $11.5 billion and growing quickly. Our founding team has a track record of building successful companies, backed by visionary Silicon Valley investors. Pathfinders wanted – join us!
– Senior Software Engineer / React|TS / Front-end
– Senior Software Engineer/ Ruby on Rails/ Back-end

At Mintos, we’re revolutionizing the fintech industry by providing opportunities for investors who want to build long-term wealth with a unique mix of alternative and traditional assets. We’re looking to expand our team and continue our mission to drive innovation and enhance the efficiency of our IT systems. Join our team as:
– Team Lead, Engineering
– Senior Frontend developer
– Mid-level PHP developer

Ness Digital Engineering is a strategic partner of AWS, Azure, Confluent and Snowflake. Within a team in Riga, we have a deep expertise in Cloud, Data & Analytics, UI/UX and ML. We are looking for experienced professionals who thrive in an open-ended environment and take ownership in delivering quality results

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Leveraging AI in Customer Service: Integrating LLMs in Customer Service Softwares by Undis Neilands at “AI as a pair” focused 126th DevClub.lv

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Design system and tokens by Jānis Cimbulis at Design Systems focused 125th DevClub.lv

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The Power of Design Systems by Natalja Andrejeva and Aivis Jansauskis at Design Systems focused 125th DevClub.lv

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PostgreSQL Service in Oracle OCI by Juris Trošins at Oracle focused 124th DevClub.lv

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AWR reporting. Enchance your db development and support by Andrei Dzianisau at Oracle focused 124th DevClub.lv

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Announcement of Design Systems focused 125th DevClub.lv

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We have sold out our tickets for the event taking place tomorrow! Therefore, if you understand you will not be able to attend, please CANCEL your registration!

You are welcome to Design Systems focused event on Thursday – December 14th 18:30, at Emergn office – Skanstes iela 27.

Agenda for Design Systems focused 125th DevClub.lv

Natalja Andrejeva and Aivis Jansauskis from Emergn will deliver a talk on “The Power of Design Systems“.
The agenda covers the definition of design systems, their pivotal role in overcoming challenges faced by product teams, and the impact of design tokens in ensuring a cohesive visual language, reducing time for feature development, rebranding, and measuring accessibility. Sharing insights from industry giants, the presentation underscores how well-crafted design systems accelerate product development cycles and foster collaboration.
As the culmination of this exploration, the audience will see a demo of Emergn’s very own Infinity Design System, showcasing its efficiency and collaborative process in action.
(Language – English)
Tags: Design Systems, Design Tokens, Design Tokens Studio, Product Design, Figma, Stencil, Development Efficiency.

Natalja Andrejeva is a product designer at Emergn, helping to build the design system. With over ten years of experience as a graphic and UI designer, she’s worked with big-name companies and brands.
Aivis Jansauskis has over ten years of experience in leading technology and development positions. Successfully led cross-functional teams to deliver complex engagements on time and within budget. Known for establishing best practices, coding standards, and streamlined workflows by ensuring that projects meet technical excellence and exceed user expectations.

Jānis Cimbulis from IF Insurance will give a talk on “Design system and tokens”.
In my presentation, I’ll share insights from my practical experience in developing a design system, highlighting the crucial role of design tokens. I’ll delve into how these tokens facilitate consistent design implementation and effective communication with fellow designers. Throughout the session, I’ll discuss the tangible benefits I’ve observed using design tokens, as well as the real challenges I encountered during the process.
(Language – English)
Tags: IF Design System, IDS, Design System, Figma, Design Tokens, CSS, WebComponents, React

Jānis is a frontend developer who has had experience with various frontend frameworks (Angular, Vue, React and lately – Lit). He is passionate about improving DX within the current company he works in – closely cooperating with fellow developers and designers.

Sergejs Skusovs from ZZ dats will tell the story about how LX makes developers’ lives easier and what it took to come this far.
Its main goal is to provide an easy-to-use components library to make building the front-end as easy as possible while maintaining a certain level of freedom for designers and maintaining good UX across the entire app.
(Language – English)
Tags: : UX, UI, Front-End, CDS, Carbon Design System

Sergejs is an award-winning software developer and product designer with more than 16 years of experience, currently leading UX at “ZZ dats”, overseeing UX and design decisions for most recent projects. He’s currently developing and maintaining the company’s own front-end framework called “LX”, implementing it in numerous products and projects across “ZZ dats” portfolio.

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Cognizant is a global IT services and consulting company that helps its clients modernize technology and transform processes and experiences. We are growing and are looking for new associates to join our Delivery center in Latvia.
– Mulesoft Developer (Associate and Senior)
– Full Stack Developer
– Data Engineer

EPAM is a team of 55,600+ technologists, strategists and designers in over 50 countries. EPAMers help leading brands transform their business through our engineering expertise, design thinking and business consulting. We foster creativeness and unconventional ways of doing things welcoming like-minded professionals to join.
– Data Analytics Engineering Trainee
– Senior / Lead Functional Consultant with Power Apps (relocation to Switzerland)
– ABAP Tech Lead

C.T.Co employs over 600 employees, and this number keeps growing each year! We are always in search for experienced professionals, as well as young talents who are ready to grow their expertise and join our friendly company! At the moment we are actively looking for Software Architects, Business Analysts and FrontEnd Developers.. Take your career to the next level! Join CTCo
– Senior Business System Analyst
– System Administrator

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VIVIDUS – your first and last stop for Codeless Test Automation by Valery Yatsynovich at QA focused 123rd DevClub.lv

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Performance testing in the cloud by Leonids Nahodkins at QA focused 123rd DevClub.lv

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Announcement of Oracle focused 124th DevClub.lv

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HI!

A little faster than you probably expected, we are here with a new event!

You are welcome to Oracle focused event on Thursday – November 2nd 18:30, at Microsoft office – Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor.

Agenda for Oracle focused 124th DevClub.lv

Frederic Descamps from Oracle will give a talk “The Evolution of a MySQL Database System“
In this session, we cover the different deployment possibilities of the MySQL architecture depending on the business requirements for the data. We deploy some architectures and see how to evolve to the next one. The attendees will learn how to migrate from single instance to High Availability with Data Recovery across Data Centers with the minimal application downtime.
The session covers the new MySQL Solutions like InnoDB ReplicaSet, InnoDB Cluster, and InnoDB ClusterSet. Attendees will get familiar with the MySQL Shell Admin API and MySQL Router.
(Language – English)

Frederic has been consulting OpenSource and MySQL for more than 20 years. After graduating in Management Information Technology, Frédéric started his career as a developer for a multinational company.. He will then opt for a different career joining one of the first Belgian start-up fully dedicated to Open Source projects around GNU/Linux. It is in 2011 that lefred joined Percona, one of the leading MySQL-based specialists and became a performance expert. He decided to join the MySQL Community Team in 2016 as a MySQL Community Manager for EMEA & APAC. Frédéric is also a regular speaker of OpenSource Conferences and technical reviewers for several books. His blog mostly dedicated to MySQL is https://lefred.be
Fred is also the devoted father of three adorable daughters: Wilhelmine, Héloïse & Bar

Andrei Dzianisau from EPAM will be talking about “AWR reporting. Enchance your db development and support”
AWR is the tool that allows to provide analysis of issues in Oracle database occurred in the past including performance issues, objects usage statistics, resource intensive SQL statements.
The topic covers the following areas:
- AWR review
- Typical problems during troubleshooting Oracle database issues
- AWR reports analysis for developers
- Enhance AWR analysis

(Language – English)
Tags: Database Development, Performance Tuning, Support

Andrei is Software Engineering Manager in Data Warehouse and ETL development at EPAM with 25+ years of experience in development, support and performance optimization

Juris Trošins from DBA Competence Center will give a talk “PostgreSQL Service in Oracle OCI”
In this presentation I’ll give an overview of new, not yet publicly available, feature to run a PostgreSQL as a native OCI service. I will shortly compare existing approaches to run Postgres in an OCI and will describe the architecture of new service as well as emphasize new features for performance, scalability and durability of it.
(Language – Latvian)
Tags: Postgresql, Mysql , Database, Oracle, Sql, Programming, Oracledba, Oraclecloudinfrastructure, Databaseadministrator, Oraclecloud, Highavailability, Oci, Cloudcomputing, Code, Rdbms

Juris Trošins deals with Oracle tech starting with year 2000 working as a consultant and technology expert concentrating on core database technologies and holds Oracle Certified Master certification. Has was a frequent speaker at various tech events for LVOUG, DOAG and UKOUG and is delivering training courses of Oracle University. In spare time he enjoys historical fencing and long-range shooting.

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Cognizant engineers’ modern businesses. We help our clients modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they can stay ahead in our fast-changing world. Together, we’re improving everyday life. We are currently looking for people to join our teams in such roles:
– Sr. Mulesoft Developer
– Sr. Mulesoft Architect
– Open Position

EPAM is a team of 55,600+ technologists, strategists and designers in over 50 countries. EPAMers help leading brands transform their business through our engineering expertise, design thinking and business consulting. We foster creativeness and unconventional ways of doing things welcoming like-minded professionals to join.
– Senior MS Power Platform Engineer
– SAP BRIM Consultant
– Lead Big Data Engineer

C.T.Co employs over 600 employees, and this number keeps growing each year! We are always in search for experienced professionals, as well as young talents who are ready to grow their expertise and join our friendly company! At the moment we are actively looking for Software Architects, Business Analysts and FrontEnd Developers.. Take your career to the next level! Join CTCo
– Software Architect
– JavaScript Developer
– Lead/Senior Business System Analyst

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Announcement of QA focused 123rd DevClub.lv

Posted onOctober 12, 2023October 24, 2023AuthorDevClub.lvLeave a comment

HI!

What is the topic of our next event? A superhero that battles bugs and ensures digital peace – Quality Assurance!
You are welcome to Quality Assurance focused event on Thursday – October 19th 18:30, at Microsoft office – Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor

Agenda for Quality Assurance focused 123th DevClub.lv

Pavels Ignatovics from Cognizant Latvia will talk about “Evolving Business and Customer Perception in Digital world”
The digital world has transformed the way businesses operate and interact with customers. Along with evolved digitalization, customers have become more informed and demanding. They expect businesses to provide them with personalized experiences that cater to their needs. In this context, businesses need to evolve their strategies to meet customer expectations and stay ahead of the competition. As the result, Quality Assurance practices must be adapted to the changing landscape.
(Language – English)
Tags: Industry trends, Customer perception, Customer Experience, Quality Assurance

Pavels is QA Generalist who’s daily duty as Solution Architect is helping global leading companies to shape customized solutions in line with industry best practices and trends.

Valery Yatsynovich from EPAM will give a talk on “VIVIDUS – your first and last stop for Codeless Test Automation.”
Ever wondered about codeless test automation? VIVIDUS is an automation tool that offers already implemented solutions for testing the most popular application types.
The topic covers the following areas:
- What a codeless test automation tool offers
- The advantages and drawbacks of its usage
- Which projects can benefit the most from it
- Examining VIVIDUS as one of the examples

(Language – English)
Tags: Test Automation, Quality Assurance, Open Source

Valery is Solution Architect in Test Automation at EPAM with 16+ years of experience in development, test automation, DevOps practices and more than five years ahead in designing quality architecture for complex projects for S&P 500 companies, often involving solutions that go beyond conventional boundaries.

Leonids Nahodkins from Accenture will give a talk “Performance testing in the cloud”.
This presentation provides a fresh look on specifics of applications in cloud and elaborates on enhanced approaches for various types of performance testing and application monitoring supported by case study of enterprise level media platform testing in cloud. The audience will learn specifics of performance testing in cloud, modern approaches and tools and benefits of running these practices during 3+ years long continuous project.
(Language – English)

Leonids Nahodkins – Performance Engineering QA, work in perf testing for about 10 years to date, overall 15+yrs in testing. Worked in many big projects for Nokia, AT&T, Discovery, Channel4,Irish bank

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Cognizant is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company. Want to join a company that’s helping modern businesses improve lives for people everywhere? Look no further than Cognizant! Apply to the roles below:
– Sr. Mulesoft Developer
– Sr. Mulesoft Architect
– Performance Tools Monitoring expert

EPAM is a team of 55,600+ technologists, strategists and designers in over 50 countries. EPAMers help leading brands transform their business through our engineering expertise, design thinking and business consulting. We foster creativeness and unconventional ways of doing things welcoming like-minded professionals to join.
– SAP FICO Consultant with CFIN
– Senior MS Power Platform Engineer
– Lead Data Engineer with Azure

C.T.Co employs over 600 employees, and this number keeps growing each year! We are always in search for experienced professionals, as well as young talents who are ready to grow their expertise and join our friendly company! At the moment we are actively looking for DevOps Engineers, Project Managers, Business Analysts and FrontEnd Developers.. Take your career to the next level! Join CTCo
– JavaScript Developer
– Azure DevOps Engineer

Emergn is a global digital business services firm on a mission to improve the way people and companies work. Forever. Every day, across the world, our teams are pioneering faster, better ways to bring our clients’ most exciting ideas to life. Want to join us?
– Lead Developer – Javascript
– .NET Developer
– Senior Software Developer – Javascript

Ness Digital Engineering is a strategic partner of AWS, Azure, Confluent and Snowflake. Within a team in Riga, we have a deep expertise in Cloud, Data & Analytics, UI/UX and ML. We are looking for experienced professionals who thrive in an open-ended environment and take ownership in delivering quality results
– Senior Software Engineer (Angular/Typescript)
– Client Engagement Manager
– Senior Oracle DBA with DevOps experience

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Testing quantum annealing assisted machine learning by Mārtiņš Kālis at Quantum focused 122nd DevClub.lv

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Quantum Algorithms in our Life by Aleksandrs Belovs at Quantum focused 122nd DevClub.lv

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Announcement of Quantum focused 122th DevClub.lv

Posted onSeptember 21, 2023October 3, 2023AuthorDevClub.lvLeave a comment

HI!

This month, on a WEDNESDAY, we are meeting to explore a hot topic and what is often thought to be a future problem solver – quantum.

You are welcome to Quantum focused event on WEDNESDAY – September 27th 18:30, at Microsoft office – Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor

Agenda for Quantum focused 122th DevClub.lv

Maksims Dimitrijevs from the Center for Quantum Computing Science at the University of Latvia will give a talk on “Quantum computers and quantum programming”
Quantum computers are a hot topic, and society thinks that breakthroughs in quantum computation can help us to solve many problems and improve the quality of life. The possible usefulness of quantum computers attracts many people into the area of quantum computation, and a lot of effort is put from both theoretical and practical sides to speed up advances in quantum computation.
Today we will have an introduction to the topics of quantum computers and quantum programming. We will first check the basics of quantum phenomena and how these effects are used to perform the computation. We will see how ideas of quantum computers emerged and answer the following questions. What is a quantum computer? How can it be programmed? Which tasks can we solve on it? Are we there yet? Regarding the last question, we will check the market of quantum computing.
(Language – English)
Tags: Quantum Computers, Quantum Programming

Maksims defended his PhD thesis on topics related to probabilistic computation, and after that transitioned to the area of quantum computation. The first steps in the direction of quantum computation were taken in courses of Prof. Andris Ambainis at the University of Latvia. The next active steps in the quantum journey started with QDrive project, where Maksims was teaching the basics of quantum programming to enthusiasts in different countries. The QDrive project resulted in the foundation of QWorld Association, and Maksims is one of the co-founders. Currently, Maksims works at the University of Latvia, Faculty of Computing as a docent and researcher.

Aleksandrs Belovs from the Center for Quantum Computing Science at the University of Latvia will give a talk on “Quantum Algorithms in our Life.”
There has been a lot of different misconceptions surrounding the field of quantum computation. In this talk, we will try to give a very high-level non-specialist-friendly explanation of the essence of quantum computation. In particular, we will touch on the Shor’s algorithm that breaks the RSA cryptosystem, and demonstrate that the main ideas behind this algorithm have been used with astonishing success for more than a century.
(Language – English)
Tags: Quantum Computation, Shor’s Algorithm, RSA

Aleksandrs is an associate professor at the Faculty of Computing and a leading researcher at the Center for Quantum Computing Science of the University of Latvia. His main research interests lie in understanding the fundamental powers and limitations of quantum computers.

Mārtiņš Kālis from the Center for Quantum Computing Science at the University of Latvia will give a talk on “Testing quantum annealing assisted machine learning.”
When two fields intersect, our goal is to harness the strengths of both to create something remarkable. Yet, frequently, we are severely limited by the combined constraints of those fields. This is the case of quantum machine learning. Mārtiņš will demonstrate some of the hurdles you need to overcome to use the current generation of quantum devices even in toy machine learning applications. He will also show some glimmers of hope that keep the near-term quantum machine learning dream alive.
(Language – English)
Tags: Quantum Computing, Machine Learning

Mārtiņš is a researcher trying to keep a cool head at the intersection of two hot fields — quantum computing and machine learning..

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At Cognizant, you’ll find the opportunity to do great work. A culture that welcomes your ideas and your entrepreneurial spark. Like you, community matters to us. We value work-life balance. Think big, and come grow with us.
– Senior Site Reliability Engineer
– SR. Mulesoft Architect
– Performance Test Engineer

EPAM is a team of 57,450 technologists, strategists and designers in over 50 countries. EPAMers help leading brands transform their business through our engineering expertise, design thinking and business consulting. We foster creativeness and unconventional ways of doing things welcoming like-minded professionals to join.
– Junior .NET Full-Stack Engineer
– Junior Java Full-Stack Engineer
– Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

C.T.Co employs over 650 employees, and this number keeps growing each year! We are always in search for experienced professionals, as well as young talents who are ready to grow their expertise and join our friendly company! At the moment we are actively looking for DevOps Engineers, Project Managers, Business Analysts and FrontEnd Developers. Take your career to the next level! Join CTCo
– Senior Project Manager
– JavaScript Developer
– Business Analyst

Emergn is a global digital business services firm on a mission to improve the way people and companies work. Forever. Every day, across the world, our teams are pioneering faster, better ways to bring our clients’ most exciting ideas to life. Want to join us?
– Lead Developer – Javascript
– .NET Developer
– Senior Software Developer – Javascript

Ness Digital Engineering is a strategic partner of AWS, Azure, Confluent and Snowflake. Within a team in Riga, we have a deep expertise in Cloud, Data & Analytics, UI/UX and ML. We are looking for experienced professionals who thrive in an open-ended environment and take ownership in delivering quality results
– Senior Software Engineer (Java/Typescript)
– Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer w/ DBA experience
– Senior QA Automation Engineer(Selenium)

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Cognitive biases and failure of Agile by Dmitrijs Lebedevs at Agile focused 121th DevClub.lv

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Going beyond Agile: Influencing Business and Driving Change by Hanno Jarvet at Agile focused 121th DevClub.lv

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Agile experience in changing environments and the challenges faced by Renārs Ronka at Agile focused 121th DevClub.lv

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Announcement of Agile focused 121th DevClub.lv

Posted onAugust 17, 2023August 28, 2023AuthorDevClub.lvLeave a comment

HI!

As summer winds down, we’re excited to invite you to our final event before fall. Join us for an insightful session focused on Agile.

You are welcome to Agile focused event on Thursday – August 24th 18:30, at Microsoft office – Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor.

Agenda for Agile focused 121th DevClub.lv

Renārs Ronka from Cognizant will give a talk: “Agile experience in changing environments and the challenges faced. From ways of working and personalities to changes in agile teams.”
A story of personal experience from projects in Great Brittan and Sweden, as well as the problems faced, when teams changed, expanded or were reshuffled.
(Language – English)
Tags: Agile, Changes, Personal Experience

Renārs is a Senior Business Analyst with an experience in various roles within software development and agile teams. He started his career as a web developer, followed by a role of a project manager until finally landing into the role of a business analyst. He studied Computer Science in Latvia, which was followed by a Master’s degree in Informatics from a university in Sweden. Renārs has worked in various industries with the most time spent in Financial sector. He does not position himself as an expert in Agile, but will be happy to share his own experience.

Dmitrijs Lebedevs from EPAM will give a talk on “Cognitive biases and failure of Agile.”
Let’s explore how those old biases still affect our ability to finish projects on time and within budget, regardless of the methodology. Dmitrijs will explain the technical side of development and how our cognitive skills help us predict upcoming challenges. Drawing from personal experience and the ideas of visionaries like Fred Brooks and others who’ve made a big impact on our field well before our time, let’s see how we can learn from the wisdom of software pioneers.
(Language – English)
Tags: Agile, Engineering, Cognitive Bias

Dmitrijs is a Software Engineer who walked a mile in almost everybody’s shoes in the industry. For the past 26 years, he rebooted from a developer and test engineer to team lead, architect, engineering manager and you-name-it. Today, as an explorer of entangled pathways of Software Development, he invites you to walk along with him during his talk.

Hanno Jarvet from Jarvet Consulting will give a talk: “Going Beyond Agile: Influencing Business and Driving Change”
You have experience in Agile methodologies and corporate change initiatives and find yourself in a position where you have more responsibility. You could expand Agile further and involve more of the business. Perhaps even make the whole organization Agile. How should you go about it in a non-naive way? How can you find some contextually appropriate ways to move your organization forward? Depending on your context and environment, different parts of the Agile methodology are appropriate (but insufficient).
This talk will help you choose a contextually appropriate approach to drive change. We will look at Wardley Mapping, Strategic Sales and Business Model Canvases to understand how to look at systems and environments and act contextually appropriately to avoid running fool’s errands and pick the battles that can be won with the right tools.
(Language – English)

Hanno has helped organizations improve performance with Agile and other methods since 2009.

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We – Nine Brains offer different Agile courses (Scrum, Lean, Extreme programming, and others). Several of the Scrum course options you can see on our webpage. Courses on other themes we provide on-demand, and we can tailor-make them just for your needs.
Contact us to get to know more!

EPAM is a team of 57,450 technologists, strategists and designers in over 50 countries. EPAMers help leading brands transform their business through our engineering expertise, design thinking and business consulting. We foster creativeness and unconventional ways of doing things welcoming like-minded professionals to join.
– Lead AWS DevOps Engineer
– Senior / Lead SAP MDG Consultant
– Data Technology Consultant

C.T.Co employs over 650 employees, and this number keeps growing each year! We are always in search for experienced professionals, as well as young talents who are ready to grow their expertise and join our friendly company! At the moment we are actively looking for DevOps Engineers and Cloud Architects. Take your career to the next level! Join CTCo
– Azure DevOps Engineer
– Cloud Architect

Emergn is a global digital business services firm on a mission to improve the way people and companies work. Forever. Every day, across the world, our teams are pioneering faster, better ways to bring our clients’ most exciting ideas to life. Want to join us?
– Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps)
– .Net Full Stack Developer

Ness Digital Engineering is a strategic partner of AWS, Azure, Confluent and Snowflake. Within a team in Riga, we have a deep expertise in Cloud, Data & Analytics, UI/UX and ML. We are looking for experienced professionals who thrive in an open-ended environment and take ownership in delivering quality results
– Software Engineer in Test
– Senior React Developer/Architect
– Azure Solutions Architect

Cognizant is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company. Want to join a company that’s helping modern businesses improve lives for people everywhere? Look no further than Cognizant! Apply to the roles below:
– SR. Mulesoft Architect
– Performance Test Engineer
– Snowflake and DBT Developer

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