SyncIpswich - Find My Tea: A Technical Journey Through Product Development
We would like to thank Paul Grenyer for delivering his talk to our SyncIpswich group.
The Talk:
There is more to having a great idea for an app than just building the app. You’re not only required to be a full stack developer (whatever that means), which doesn’t usually include the skills for building an app, you need to understand and be competent in ‘Ops’ (there’s really no such thing as DevOps) and the automated pipelines used for testing and deploying the app, it’s backend services and supporting applications. And there is so much to choose from!
In this session I will take you on the journey of discovery from having an idea, to choosing, re-choosing and choosing again the different technologies and platforms I used to build and release a new product from scratch.
This session will be focussed on the technology choices made and the reasoning and not on the product itself - although of course this will feature. This will include the mobile technology, the technology used for the web applications, backed services, hosting and development pipelines.
What we will cover:
✔ Product development journey
✔ Full stack development
✔ Mobile development
✔ DevOps
About Paul Grenyer:
Husband, father, software engineer, metaller, Paul has been writing software for over 35 years and professionally for more than 20. In that time he has worked for and in all sorts of companies from two man startups to world famous investment banks and insurance companies. He has built and run three limited companies, none of which made him a millionaire and two of which threatened his sanity on more than one occasion.
Paul was a founding member of both SyncNorwich and Norfolk Developers, two of the most successful tech and startup based community groups in the East. He created and chaired the hugely successful Norfolk Developers Conference (nor(DEV):con) for seven years bringing in speakers and delegates in the sphere of software engineering from around the globe.
Paul is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Bourne Leisure, the owners of Haven caravan parks, and the founder of the tea finding app, Find My Tea. He loathes the word Entrepreneur, not least because he struggles to spell it and it reminds him of Del Boy from the 80s sitcom Only Fools and Horses. He sees Entrepreneurship as a side effect of the creative process of problem solving, rather than a career path in its own right.
Despite having dealt with the world of business from directors of the board down, Paul has kept both feet firmly on the ground even when his head has been in the clouds with healthy doses of Heavy Metal, Science Fiction and Formula One and long hair until it started falling out in 2013.
Oh, and he loves good tea too!
