
Mey Beisaron
03 - 04 May 2023 | Alte Kaserne Winterthur
Infrastructure Engineer at Forter
​Mey is a Software, Backend and Infrastructure Engineer.
Although Mey develops daily in NodeJS, Python and Groovy, Clojure will forever be her favorite programming language.
She has a lot of experience with Functional Programming concepts, Algorithms, and Game Development.
Mey shares her technical knowledge regularly, via lots of tech conferences, meetups, and workshops around the globe.
Helping people is a big part of her life, and she expresses it by leading the tech speaking program in “Baot”, the largest Israeli community of women in engineering and data science, and also by consulting - both for tech conferences and 1:1 sessions - empowering people to improve their technical presentations.
Mey is also a sworn Star Wars fan, and all of her slide decks are a testament to that. Mey the force be with you.

Talk
From a Backend Developer to DevOps -
THE FORCE AWAKENS
​“Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.” —Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back
Yoda is right. Becoming a Devops Engineer, after more than 5 years as a Backend Developer, has changed my professional life forever.
The need to learn and understand the complex CI/CD pipeline, architecture of multiple systems across the engineering department,
tackling build VS. buy decisions on a regular basis, develop and take ownership over critical systems - All of these together complete the DevOps puzzle.
In this talk, we will go through the steps of assembling this puzzle as a whole, and explain how I was able to completely transform the way I solve engineering problems - From a narrow application perspective to a wide holistic system architecture approach. By the end of this talk you will know how you can do it too- whether you want to keep at it with your dev role, switch to a DevOps role, or make any other big career