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CWIN18 Telford: Alexa skills at DevOxx – Sarah Saunders

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Channel: Capgemini · 2018 · Science & Technology

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Sarah Saunders – Managing Software Engineer, Capgemini

For Capgemini’s engineering stall at the DevOxx UK conference this year, we wanted something which would display our coding credentials but also focus on our people side – our theme for the conference being: it takes all types to make a team. To meet this goal, we built an Alexa skill, customising Alexa to take users though a personality quiz to determine what kind of IT roles might suit them.

This talk is about how Sarah and the team learned to build applications with Alexa, and how the skills involved differ from typical server-side development.

Sarah is a senior Java developer, with 15 years of technology experience, and co-leads the Open Source Cloud Engineering team in Application Development & Integration (AD&I). She joined Capgemini in 2008 and since having children has expanded her technology skills to find commutable roles – branching out into ASP.NET, JavaScript, blockchain, LoCode/ NoCode and integration solutions. Currently working on a MuleSoft implementation project for EDF Energy, she is an agile evangelist and loves to investigate new technologies.

Filmed at the CWIN18 UK event in the Telford ASE.

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