8 Years Of Excellence

Zahin Rashid and Maria Shoaib, while managing their freelance careers, are tech speakers at conferences around the world. Our key-notes have ranged from talking about automation processes in companies, to inclusive products, to artificial intelligence and to security risks in blockchain.

Speakers Corner

Zahin -> Speaker at Codemotion Conference

Maria -> Speaker at Codemotion Conference

Maria -> Key-Note Speaker at JS Kongress

Talk At Conferences

San Francisco, USA

Maria is giving a talk on “Weaving workers of DataOps” at StreamSets Conference in San Francisco. She excellently presented the key areas which help implementing Data Operations at companies. The talk was focused on key processes that enable robust data operations.

Berlin, Germany

Zahin and Maria, both giving a talk on Blockchain Technology at Codemotion Conference in Berlin. As the IT industry is growing, so are the challenges in using the Blockchain technology. The aim of this talk was to introduce the importance of Blockchain security. The talk covered the basic understanding of Blockchain followed by driving features, and, what makes this technology so popular. The Ethereum hack identified by Coinbase Team was presented at the end.

Munich, Germany

Maria giving a talk as a key-note speaker on “The big piece of the post-LAMP pie” at JS-Kongerss conference in Munich. The advent of the cloud disrupted the software stack. The shift from the LAMP era to the cloud resulted in the shift of the software status quo. JavaScript is the biggest piece of the new, post-LAMP pie. It’s not only a front-end scripting language, but a software stack game changer that is equally powerful for both the front-end and back-end. The aim of this talk is to show how Javascript is one of the major platforms that is shaking up the stack landscape.

Madrid, Spain

Zahin presenting a talk on “Diversity and Inclusion” and how both have been a major concern in big IT giants including Google and Facebook. The first half of the talk covered the basic understanding of Diversity and Inclusion and why diversity is good for business. The second half of the talk covered, how to recognize the full human potential in diverse teams and how to overcome unconscious biases that can hamper the growth of the individuals.

Maria presenting a talk on “Rust and Google’s Go language (Golang/Go)”. Both languages are an integral part of modern back-end software development to solve specific business needs. Features and performance of Go and Rust is a much debated topic among developers and enterprises. So, should I Rust, or should I Go?. Simply put, where is that magical realm of simple and scalable technology stack, code, and, bullet fast performance? The bench marks on performance of the two programming languages were well discussed in her talk

Milan, Italy

Maria presented a talk on “Expand your horizon: making products with inclusion in mind” at Intersection conference in Milan. This talk focused on why inclusive products are better, and how to build them. Starting with “why?”, moving towards “how?” by explaining key methods of inclusivity: design, data analysis, and SDLC with diversity, and sharing resources as inclusion from an overhead cost to a business enabler is a need of tomorrow.

Malmo, Sweden

Maria presenting her talk on “APACHE STRUTS, SERVERLESS, AND, STORED XSS ZERO-DAY” at Oredev conference. The aim of this talk is to introduce the audience to latest critical vulnerabilities. The first half of the talk covered the two most critical vulnerabilities in platforms previously unfathomable, i.e. vulnerabilities in Apache Struts and Serverless Architectures with examples/demos of exploits and its effects. Moreover, it also covered Stored XSS Zero-day, a vulnerability that allowed hackers to compromise 70,000 websites in March 2019. The DOM with real life scenarios, code demos, the effects of exploitation, and recommended prevention/remediation processes were well presented.