September 2020 Online Kotlin Meetup

The fifth virtual edition of the meetup is Wednesday 9th September from 6 pm BST (3:30 pm IST / 1 pm EDT / 10 am PDT).

Talks will be recorded and will be available on the Kotlin London Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/kotlinlondon/).

Spread the word, BYOB and pizza, and join the conversation!

Schedule:

• 6.00 pm: Welcome to the Kotlin Online Meetup

• 6.05 pm: Gopal S Akshintala - Fight Complexity with Functional Programming

• 7.05 pm: Pablo Gonzales Alonso - What can autoModule do for you?

• 7.35 pm: Wrap Up

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Gopal S Akshintala - Fight Complexity with Functional Programming

A Metric-driven approach to reduce Cognitive Complexity in a code base, using Functional Programming, demoed hands-on, by solving a complex real-world ubiquitous design challenge - REST API Bulk Request Validation, with an extensible Framework that separates what-to-do (Validations) from how-to-do (Validation Orchestration). Let's do a case study of a successful implementation done by our team in the world's largest SaaS org, Salesforce.

Bio:

Gopal S Akshintala is currently a Senior Software Engineer at the Microsoft OneNote team.

He is a passionate developer and loves being an Influencer & Mentor in the dev community through Blog-posts, Tech-Talks (https://overfullstack.github.io/about-me#Speaking), and Social-media.
He started as an Android Developer and switched to the server-side as a Full-Stack Developer (Kotlin, Java for Backend, React Js for Frontend). Wearing multiple hats, aided him to perceive Patterns, Solutions, and Trade-offs.

He is a practitioner of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Clean Architecture. A massive fan of Test-Driven Development (TDD). He believes Expressive Code is fun and profitable, which enthused him towards Functional Programming. He’s a language geek, currently fluent at Kotlin, Java, and dabbling with Scala and Javascript.
In addition to his Software Engineering experience, he gains more experiences-per-year by open-source collaborations & contributions, active participation in the Dev discussions, and Speaking at User Groups and Conferences. He loves being on Stage, as a Singer (http://bit.ly/agssc) and a Tech-Speaker (https://overfullstack.github.io/about-me#Speaking) and writes about Nature & Life (http://bit.ly/agslotw).

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Pablo (Pablisco) Gonzalez Alonso - What can autoModule do for you?

We'll learn what autoModule can do for our Gradle setup. We’ll see how can we reduce the complexity of our build scripts with a bit of history of how the plugin got started.

Bio: Pablo is a Kontractor working from a small garden room in London. He’s been working with Android for over a decade and with Kotlin since version 1.0