Presentation: Domain Driven Design AMA w/ Vernon, Charlton & Alagarsamy

Indu enjoys designing distributed systems using event-driven architecture style and domain-driven design principles. She has over 15 years of software development experience working with various industries like healthcare, finance, biotech, and emergency services.  Her current day job is as a Solution Architect at Particular Software, the makers of NServiceBus.  She is passionate about diversity and inclusiveness in the tech industry. When she's not programming, she is an occasional rock climber who loves to chill in sunny Southern California with her kids and super chill giant mastiff.

Vaughn Vernon is a software developer and architect with more than 30 years of experience in a broad range of business domains. Vaughn is a leading expert in Domain-Driven Design, and a champion of simplicity and reactive systems. He consults and teaches around Domain-Driven Design and reactive software development, helping teams and organizations realize the potential of business driven and reactive systems as they transition from technology driven legacy web implementation approaches. As he does so, he puts strong emphasis on embracing simplicity whenever possible. Vaughn is the author of three books: Implementing Domain-Driven Design, Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model, and Domain-Driven Design Distilled, all published by Addison-Wesley.

Stuart Charlton is a Principal Platform Architect at Pivotal Software, focusing on Kubernetes, networking, and cloud native architecture.  He was previously the General Manager of IT Infrastructure & Operations at Canadian Pacific Railway, the CTO of an early cloud computing startup, and a technology consultant for over 20 years, and is based in Calgary, Canada.