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Bonnie Eisenman is a staff software engineer at Twitter, where she enjoys untangling legacy systems and putting them back together again. Previously, she was the tech lead of the largest backend service at Twitter. She is also the author of Learning React Native, a book on building native iOS and Android applications with JavaScript, published with O’Reilly Media. In her spare time, she enjoys learning languages, sewing, and knitting. Find her on Twitter as @brindelle.

Talks, Past and Future

2018

• March 2018: Papers We Love: Multiphase Numerical Modeling with Jigsaw Puzzles

• July 2018: Localhost at Recurse Center

2017

• April 2017: Guest lecturer at Princeton University, for Brian Kernighan’s Advanced Programming Techniques class.
• September 2017: Lazy Defenses: Using Scaled TTLS to Keep Your Cache Correct at Strange Loop. Slides, Video

2016

• September 2016: I’m teaching my intro to React Native workshop at Strange Loop.
• July 2016: I’ll be speaking at the online-only Crater Mobile Conference.
• June 2016: React Native Retrospective at React Europe. [Slides], [YouTube video]
• March 2016: React Native In the Wild, an introduction to React Native for the NYC JavaScript React Meetup. [Slides], [Youtube Video]

• February 2016: Turing Incomplete Episode 75: I discuss React Native, among other things, with the fine folks at Turing Incomplete. Listen here.
• February 2016: React Native Overview at hack.summit(). [Slides], [YouTube video]
• January 2016: Learning React Native, on the Space Dojo (neé MeteorJS Club) podcast. 45 minutes of discussion re: React Native. Listen here.

2015

• August 2015: Effective Tooling with ReactJS. MidwestJS in Minneapolis. [Slides].
• May 2015: Introduction to Musical Programming with ChucK. Workshop at the Joy of Coding Conference in Rotterdam.
• May 2015: Music! Programming! Arduinos!, a talk at !!Con in NYC. [Video], [Slides]

• January 2015: Codecademy’s Approach to Component Communication. React.js Conf at Facebook HQ. [Slides], [Youtube video].
• January 2015: Arduinos!, a 45-minute talk to the University of Victoria’s computing club.

2014

• December 2014: Introduction to Arduino, a half-hour introductory talk for hackathon attendees. Local Hack Day. [Youtube video], [slides]
• September 2014: Electronic Musical Instruments And How to Imagine Your Own. Maker Faire.
• March 2014: A Sleep-Tracking Pillow. [Video] The Eighth Law and Information Society Symposium, at Fordham Law School in New York, NY.
• January 2014: Introduction to Arduino Workshop, a hands-on, three-hour workshop for eighty students and professors at Princeton.