Bio
Hello, I’m Fred. I’m a web developer, project manager, and entrepreneurship enthusiast. I’m a Customer Success Engineer at EnsoData, where we create the world’s first FDA-cleared AI for sleep medicine diagnostics. I live, run, and hike in Madison, WI, with my partner and our fluffy Newfoundland dog.
My Talks
Goto Considered Harmless: Raising Errors
If you depend on an external API or microservice, you can't predict the errors your app will encounter. We'll discuss the difficulties of running an app in an uncertain environment, and how we used...
Persuasion: Getting Your Tech Widely Adopted
Brilliant developers, project managers, and IT professionals build tools perfectly suited to their users. So why don't those users use them? In this talk, you'll learn new ways to frame your discus...
Processes for a Successful Remote-Friendly & Employee-Oriented Company
Engineering organizations hire smart, opinionated people with lots of ideas about how processes should work. Hear how our company makes process design inclusive of everyone, and how we've created p...
The Old Hotness: M, NoSQL, and Why You Should Learn a Really Old Language
The M language/database was created in the '60s for working with healthcare data. It was one of the first NoSQL databases using technology familiar to any modern MongoDB user. We'll see the benefit...