Visualize this! You’re on the field with less than 30 seconds in the 4th quarter. You’re juggling dependencies, battling inconsistent environments and scrambling to get your model into the end zone. You need a way to streamline your pipeline to win. This is when you decide to pull out the “Docker Playbook”, the ultimate game plan! In this seminar, we are going to take a deep dive in turning our Xs and Os into writing efficient Dockerfiles, containerizing our models and distributing them to our peers and the cloud.  At the end of the final whistle, you will have the skills to build scalable, portable and efficient pipelines that are built to win.

Prerequisites: AWS Account, Docker, Laptop, Terraform, Python, R
Training Materials on GitHub: https://github.com/thestrugglingblack/the-docker-playbook

Zuri Hunter, a data engineer at the National Football League, merges her technical skills with a strong commitment to community service. A Computer Information Systems graduate from Howard University, she taught herself Ruby on Rails and showcased her talents in hackathons, notably at the United States Presidential Innovation Fellows Hack the Pay Gap event. Outside of her engineering role, Zuri also volunteered as a Technical Lead for Black Girls Code and organized Howard University’s hackathon “Bison Hacks.” Her work earned her a 2018 DCA Live Power in Tech nomination. In her downtime, she enjoys arts and crafts, ice skating and competing in fighting game tournaments nationwide.