Code Forward - Meet the Developers Behind Obama for America January 14, 2013

Join the Obama for America team and New Relic for Code Forward – a three-city tour with the developers behind President Obama’s 2012 re-election. Learn how the OFA team redefined how technology is used to run a successful political campaign.

Finding the right people and the right tools for the job can mean the difference between success and failure for any organization. But in a political campaign, where financial and time considerations are paramount, the risks are even greater.

Learn how the Obama for America’s focus on team building and efficiency helped them build a sophisticated cloud-based infrastructure that used big data to maximize their campaign’s success, volunteer engagement and voter outreach.

Featured speakers include:

* Scott VanDenPlas - DevOps Tech Lead
* Ryan Kolak - Lead Engineer, Narwhal Integration
* Nick Leeper - Lead Engineer, Finance/Fundraising
* Chris Gansen - Dashboard Tech Lead
* Jason Kunesh - Director of User Experience

Sponsored by New Relic:
New Relic is the all-in-one web application performance management provider for the cloud and the datacenter. Its SaaS solution combines real user monitoring, application monitoring, server monitoring and availability monitoring in a single solution built from the ground up and changes the way developers and operations teams manage web application performance in real-time. More than 30,000 organizations use New Relic to optimize over 58 daily metrics. New Relic also partners with leading cloud management, platform and hosting vendors to provide their customers with instant visibility into the performance of deployed applications.

Official Website: http://codeforward_chicago.eventbrite.com/