Simon Pilkington

Simon Pilkington


Talk Details

Title

Effective Strategies for Testing and Releasing Server Side Changes

Description

Whether you are a solo developer or a team coordinating tens or hundreds of changes every day, making sure you don’t break your application is critical. This talk walks through some strategies to provide confidence in your changes and ensure they provide their designed functionality.

About the Speaker

Position

Principle Engineer at Atlassian

Bio

Simon has a substantial Software Engineering career with over a decade at Amazon - including working on a high scale Swift-based orchestrator ingesting content into Prime Video - and now as a principal engineer at Atlassian. At Amazon, Simon worked on a variety of components to support Swift-based development and also contributed to the business case for the Swift AWS SDK. Simon has also been a member of the Swift Server Work Group since 2020, helping with development of the AWS Lambda runtime and more recently discussions for a generic http server and middleware.