4–7 Nov 2019

Emily Shea
Senior Software Engineer, Fastly

Emily is a Senior Software Engineer at Fastly, where she works on the platform for delivering core CDN configurations and develops in Perl using speech recognition. In a past life, she worked in HR at mobile gaming companies. Emily holds a BA in Architecture from UC Berkeley, and in her spare time likes to hang out in parks with her dog, named Chicken.

Sessions

14:20–15:00 Thursday, 7 November 2019

Location: Hall A6

Voice-driven development: Who needs a keyboard anyway?

Emerging Tech

Emily Shea (Fastly)

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Keyboards are the way most developers program computers, and being unable to use a keyboard for extended periods of time can seem like a career-ending limitation. Emily Shea leads a demo-driven showcase of the speech recognition technology she's been using for the last year, starting from a solution to repetitive strain injury (RSI) and developing into an efficient way to develop software. Read more.