Kathyleen Beveridge

Born in Vietnam, moved to San Diego in 2004
Received her bachelors degree in Santa Clara bay area, then received a degree at USC
Lives by a mission statement, says my mission in life is to not merely survive, but to thrive and to do so with passion…
Career
First job was an investment banker at Wells Fargo, was a stock broker, mutual funds
Went back to university and switch careers after at High Tech
Took six months off in San Diego, learned how to surf
Switched again, went to Qualcomm, then left
Companies
HP Inc: Create technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere
Qualcomm: Inventing the tech the world loves
Thermo Fisher Scientific: Enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer
Every company wants to code for the betterment of life and society
Thermo Fisher products that they make, make a massive impact
Her title is senior director for marketing and sales

Kris Porter

Title has been Software Engineer, SRE, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineer
Livermore High School alum, enjoyed STEM classes
Went to UCLA for Electrical Engineering, focused on Communication Systems and Computer Networks
Master Degree in Electrical Engineering for Cal State LA
Center for Embedded Networked Sensors
Career
Finished graduate school, stock market crashed
Worked at a shop that was fixing Mac computers
Systems Engineer at a start up, GPM
NBC Universal, Streaming media infrastructure
Intro to DevOps, transition to Qualcomm
Working at Twitter
Continuous Learning highlights
CCNA training
Machine Learning and Deep Learning (Qualcomm)
Python (Udemy)
Data Structures, Algorithms and System Design for Interviews
Twitter University
Projects he has worked on
Streaming Media Infrastructure for the 2012 Olympic Games
Analytics Infrastructure Projects (LocationSmart, Qualcomm)
Twitter Projects, New DataCenter Deployment, Migrating HomeTimeline to GraphQL