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Becoming a self-employed RSETeri Forey

The Story so far

TALK AGENDA

01 03

02 04

Accidentally becoming self-employed

Wellcome TrustWorking at Data Labs

Lessons LearntWhat not to do

Web DevelopmentLanguages and Frameworks

THE STORY SO FAR

01

2014Postdoc in

Bioinformatics

2018RSE at University of Leicester

2019Started Teri Apps

2020Moved to IrelandJoined Wellcome Trust

2010Phd in Computational Biology

LESSONS LEARNT

02

It’s easier than you

think

Spend wisely

Don’t work for friends or

family

Make Connections

Be disciplined

WELLCOMETRUST

03

WELLCOME TRUST DATA LABS

Working with the Research on Research Institute (RoRI)

RORI DATA SHARING PLATFORMCOMPONENTS

DATABASEPostgreSQL

SQLite

BACKENDPython Tornado

Rust Actix-web

FRONTENDLit-html

Web components

WEB DEVELOPMENT

04

WEB DEVELOPMENTWHAT’S CHANGED?

NOWPREVIOUSLYHTML Templating

Only a little javascript, mostly jQuery

Separated front and backends

Javascript heavy

BACKEND FRAMEWORKS

Quick to set up.

Similar to Flask.

Batteries included.

More features than necessary.

Async and scalable.

More boilerplate.

FRONTEND FRAMEWORKS

MOBILE FRAMEWORKS

Steeper learning curve. Web development

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THANKSDoes anyone have any questions?

LinkedIn: Teri Foreyteri@teri-apps.com@BioTeri