Department of  Computing

Applications of Computing in Industry : Lecture

16 November
Noon, LT308 Huxley
 
company: Amazon

Title: Getting It Done: Rapid Innovation at Amazon
Abstract:

Rob Duffy explores how the software development culture at Amazon creates rapid innovation and allows the company to deliver products to market quicker than the competition. Learn what it means to be a software developer at a fast moving US tech company and how to launch features that customers love using.

Speaker Details: Rob Duffy
 

Rob Duffy's early years at Amazon were spent working on the platform that powered Mothercare, Marks and Spencer and Target.com. As Amazon's Senior Web Developer he worked on the complete redesign of all three sites and has been responsible for countless feature launches. He's now the Website Application Platform's get things done guy, getting large technical initiatives rolling and helping dev teams across the world collaborate on innovative features.


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