Sean Killeen

Have you ever wondered whether you have something to contribute to conversations in the tech industry? YOU TOTALLY DO. In this session, Sean will walk through ways to think about adding your voice to help shape our industry, and what benefits you and your community may gain as a result. He'll share prompts to get you started, and tips to help you follow through. His hope is that you will leave with a renewed conviction that your voice matters, and a pathway to put it out there and feel good about it.

Too many developers underestimate the power that is hidden away in their logs. In this talk, Sean will take us through the "why" of structured logging and the basics of how to attain it via Serilog and Seq, with plenty of examples along the way. You'll learn how to log better, how to search those logs, how to use logs to identify performance issues, and how Sean once substituted good log messages for an entire UI in order to provide business value quickly.

Sean is going where no presenter should ever go -- a live demo! Continuous integration and automated delivery are considered best practices, but how does it actually happen? During this talk, Sean will create -- from scratch -- a CI/CD pipeline for a real project using TeamCity, OctopusDeploy, and the Azure cloud. Along the way, we'll discuss Chocolatey, deployment slots, nuget packages, and more. We'll also touch on Appveyor and some other Azure deployment methods, as well as the "why" of CI/CD.

NEST is a fantastic client for the ElasticSearch DB, which has a number of performance advantages and great use cases for solving modern development problems. In this session, you’ll learn some background about ElasticSearch for .NET, and will work through a real-world use case for utilizing it in your applications.

In this talk, I discuss what feedback loops are, why they’re important, and the myriad ways that shortening feedback loops can improve your code, your team, and your career.

Impact mapping is a powerful technique to orient your team toward achieving outcomes instead of writing features. In this talk, Sean will introduce impact mapping and explain its uses and benefits. To explore this concept, he will use impact mapping to demonstrate a path toward something he is passionate about – more diverse representation at conferences, both for attendees and speakers.