Month: March 2016

March DevClub will be hosted by TransferWise and we’ll meet @ TransferWise New Office, Veerenni 24 (Norway House, entrance D, 7th floor). The event will be held on 23rd of March at 19:00.

AGENDA

1. Risk @ TransferWise.

Erko Risthein is Software Developer @ TransferWise What will Erko talk about? How do we manage financial risk at TransferWise? With the foreign-exchange rates in constant fluctuation, how is it possible to build a sustainable money transfer service in this volatile environment? What kind of hedging techniques you could use to hedge a currency portfolio? 

2. Fraud Detection in PHP: Ascending from Hell.

Dmitry Zhukov & Maksims Juvcenko are Software Engineers @ TransferWise

What will Dmitry & Maksims talk about? We will tell the story of Fraud Prevention Team and its journey of converting prototype into solid fraud detection engine while supporting rapidly growing business. We will unveil good, bad and ugly decisions we have already made and making now concerning team, architecture, fraud detection algorithms and infrastructure. Also we will discuss what product thinking and KPI-driven approach gave us to power our decisions.   

3. AWS Lambda in Your Stack.

Stanislav Gorski is Senior software developer @ Folkefinans What will Stanislav talk about? AWS Lambda is Amazon’s way to run pieces of code in response to the events both inside and outside AWS infrastructure. This talk will briefly introduce what does it exactly mean and how to get started with AWS Lambda. Also it will go through examples and opportunities of fitting the Lambda into Your technology stack. And last, it will cover some gotchas to watch out with Lambda based on our experience with it in Folkefinans.

See you on 23rd of March, 19:00 @ TransferWise Office.

PS! Event will be held in English.