Dave Aronson
Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Semi-retired software development consultant with 40 years of professional experience, open to speaking at corporate events, tech-agnostic conferences, and Elixir, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, C, and maybe some other conferences. (And part-time pure-remote software development contracts.) Speaks excellent English, fluent French, passable Portuguese, and very basic Japanese (not written). Willing (nay, eager!) to travel to interesting places, if you'll pay expenses.
Most of my talks are listed here with a *typical* length, but can be adapted to a small fraction of that, or possibly extended to maybe 50% longer, even double in some cases.
Talks
ACRUMEN: What IS Software Quality Anyway?!
45-minute keynote talk at intermediate levelBug Magnets: Booby-Traps in your Code
30-minute seminar talk at intermediate levelCOARSNO: The First Rule of Composition
10-minute lightning talk at beginner levelDrink Like a Chinese Egyptian Eritrian/Ethiopian Filipino Finnish Greek Indian Lithuanian Mayan Nepalese Polish Welsh Xhosa Viking: the History and Making of MEAD!
40-minute seminar talk at beginner levelFrom Audience to Authority: Breaking Into Conference Speaking
45-minute seminar talk at beginner levelFrom Examples to Exhaustive: Intro to Property-Based Testing
40-minute seminar talk at beginner levelHire Mutants to Build your Test Suite!
30-minute seminar talk at advanced levelKill All Mutants! (Intro to Mutation Testing)
45-minute seminar talk at advanced levelMulti-Talking (no, that's not a typo) with Genaver!
30-minute seminar talk at beginner levelOOP: You Keep Using That Word . . .
30-minute seminar talk at intermediate levelRuby Gotchas
45-minute seminar talk at beginner levelSpecific Gravity: Into the Black Hole of Brewing MEAD!
50-minute seminar talk at intermediate levelTame Two Tedious Tasks Together, with Doctests
10-minute seminar talk at intermediate levelTDD like a Viking: Brewing Mead with JavaScript!
40-minute seminar talk at beginner levelThe Making of a WWWizzzard
30-minute seminar talk at beginner levelTight Genes: Intro to Genetic Algorithms
45-minute seminar talk at beginner levelTWO Weird Tricks: Mutation Testing and Property-Based Testing
45-minute seminar talk at advanced levelWhose Line of Code Is It Anyway?
30-minute seminar talk at beginner levelWhy We Prepend
5-minute lightning talk at beginner levelBios
Bio (Main English Profile)
Dave is a semi-retired software development consultant (writing code *and* giving advice about it), with 40 years of professional experience in a wide variety of languages, techniques, domains, etc. He is the T. Rex of Codosaurus, LLC (his one-person consulting firm, which explains how he can get such a cool title, at https://www.Codosaur.us/), near Washington, DC, USA. His main focus in software lately is to spread the gospel of quality, including defining what that even means, and talking about techniques to achieve it. In his spare time, he brews mead, teaches others how -- and speaks at conferences, on podcasts, to companies, etc.