Tampa Devs

Our letter from the IRS came in. It's official! Tampa Devs is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit with 509(a)(2) public charity status ? This was a massive undertaking: It's a milestone for our organizer team, and a huge step forward in our mission of community building and accelerating access to high-quality training and career opportunities for everyone in Tampa Bay. It also means your donations are tax deductible, too ? Support our cause over at https://tampa.dev/donate.

On behalf of Tampa Devs, we wanted to thank you everyone that came out to Alexander Delgado, CPA, CISA talk: "Relational Databases and Data Warehouses: A Practical Overview". The audience loved Alex's talk and the questions kept coming until 9:20PM, even though the talk officially ended at 8:00PM. Thank you to Brittany Greco for letting Tampa Devs stay in the conference room past the scheduled talk time. Additionally we would like to thank Dan Thompson, Brittany Greco, Evan Davitch Omar Raffoul Sr and Vaco for hosting and sponsoring the talk. You can find the slides of the talk here: https://lnkd.in/eYEY5ieg Lastly, Brittany Greco has mentioned that they have been receiving a non-stop stream of job requisition requests lately. If you are exploring new career opportunities, looking for a career transition, or looking to expand/augment your workforce, please reach out to Brittany Greco, Dan Thompson, Evan Davitch and Omar Raffoul Sr. Brittany Greco said they would also be open to reviewing your resumes. Thank you again for everybody that came out and made the event amazing! P.S. I can't add additional tags to the picture after posting...So tagging Ryan McMaster and Alicia Boyd here!

Caught Bruno Souza and Fran?ois Martin at the mentor hub Devnexus. They’ll be at Tampa Java User Group next Thursday March 13. Join me at Why Software Testing Is a Waste of Time + Repuation Formula https://lnkd.in/eBXJQTGy

Happening next Thursday March 13th! Come to Embarc Collective to hear Francois and Bruno talk. RSVP below or on Meetup: https://lnkd.in/emADi349

Meet this months stand-out techie! ????? ? Edward is a Software Developer with a passion for understanding things deeply and all things Python? ? He holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science & Math from SUNY Potsdam and a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.? ? He is drawn to the intersection of technology and people and enjoys building slack bots, dashboards, and integrations. He also likes to stream and record YouTube videos on math-related programming topics.? ? In his free time, he loves to play pickleball, attend tech meetups, and throw a frisbee at the beach (when he gets out to it).? ? Check out what he's up to at @EdwardBanner on Twitter/X or ebanner on Github) Edward Banner Samantha Ramos, MS Lissette D. Keaton Zargham Alexander Duncan Jordan Johnson Tanvi Nandamudi Nicholas S. Trinity Crowther Michael M. Anuja Gogate

So happy to have attended the inaugural Tampa Bay Cyber Resilience + AI Summit on January 31, 2025. Thanks to Nelson Yee for bringing together #ISACA, #OWASP, #ISSA, #InfraGard, and #ISC2 for this exceptional event! The impressive caliber of speakers and participants included Bryson Bort,Larry Whiteside Jr., @Chrissie Collins, James Gress, Chris Ayers, Charles McGuinness, Weimo Liu, Wesley Moy, Claudia Saleh, John Licato, Joe B. and Timothy Toohill, Michael Rogers, Eric Vogelpohl, Sravan K. Elineni, Norman Dorsch, Juan Carlos B., Chris Hatter, Chris Winslow, Alexander Delgado, Edward Nester, Tom Stablein, Tracy Ingram, Troy Bettencourt, Dan Holland, and Jimmy Hester. Amazing job again, Nelson Yee!!! Read the full list of topics covered and related speakers here: https://lnkd.in/ercgexER

Last night we had David Parry stop at the Tampa Java User Group for his last stop as part of the FL JUG tour. He gave a very engaging presentation on a couple of different coding AI tools and being a developer advocate from Qodo (formerly Codium) demonstrated what his company is doing on the coding and Agentic side. One key point he kept driving was to always be in the driver seat of any tool to have full control. Congrats to ?? Joey de Villa winning this month's ArcOfAI Conference conference. The conference will be taking place March 31 - Apr 3 in Austin, TX organized by Venkat Subramaniam. There is one more opportunity in March to win so stay tuned and come out for our next Meetup. David will be at Arc of AI and also at Devnexus so if you're interested in hearing him talk again and others like him that conference will be happening March 4 - 6 in Atlanta. Use code 'DN25JUGS' to get 40% off! I would also like to thank everybody who took time out of their Thursday evening to come out and also to our sponsors. Thanks to our additional raffle sponsors: O'Reilly and JetBrains Also thanks to Lynn Kroesen, CEcD and her team of Cassidy Roberts, MBA and David Garza-Manahan from the ECC of Hillsborough County for hosting us. Special shoutout to Nelson Yee for helping me setup and clean up and thanks to my co-organizers: Sam Kasimalla and Shaun C. As always if you're looking for an opportunity to speak, host, sponsor, or any other Q&A feel free to reach out.

The Tampa Devs Meetup Group (Nelson Yee/Matthew Yorkgitis) will be hosting a discussion led by Alexander Delgado, CPA, CISA about Relational Databases and Data Warehouses Wednesday March 5th at 6pm, shedding light on crucial concepts like row store and column store. They will delve into the physical storage of data on disk and examine how it influences performance. Event Location: Vaco, SkyCenter One, 5411 Skycenter Dr?Tampa Date: March 5th Time: 6pm-8pm

Thank you Rich! We enjoyed having you speak last night!

Full house tonight as we listened to Rich Winslow share his many stories, things to watch out for, and questions to ask in the world of data engineering! A huge thank you goes to Kforce Inc and xByte Technologies for sponsoring this event and helping us make it a success! Hope to see you all next month when we will learn about relational databases and data warehouses. Checkout https://lnkd.in/d4N3pS7S for our schedule!