I get invites from many software companies and colleges for tech talks. Here is the list of presentations I typically provide. If you are from a college or company and are looking for a guest speaker for any events, please feel free to contact me.

1. TECH TALK
TOPICS
Ganesh Samarthyam
Co-Founder
CodeOps Technologies, Bangalore
www.codeops.tech
ganesh@codeops.tech

2. GANESH SAMARTHYAM’S TECH TALKS
➤ This presentation provides list of topics for my tech talks
➤ Have given invited talks (tech talks) in numerous
companies including: Aconex, Avaya, BloomReach,
Euromonitor, Fidelity Investments, Microsemi, Oracle,
Prowareness, Rockwell Collins, TechJini, Torry Harris, …
➤ These talks are for knowledge sharing - so there is no cost
associated with it
➤ I usually share the presentation & supporting material to the
participants after the tech talk

3. A QUICK OVERVIEW OF SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE
➤ Are you a developer or designer aspiring to become an architect? Are you looking for getting
promoted to an architect or jump-starting your career as a software architect? Have you
always wondered what it takes for a developer to become an architect? If you have answered
"yes" to any of these questions, this tutorial is certainly for you. Like the "Shangai Maglev”
bullet train that crosses 7+ kilometres in a minute, this tutorial will take you on a blazing fast
trip from the developer city to the architecture city in just 90 minutes. So buckle up your
seats: you’re going get exposed to architectural principles, constraints, non-functional
requirements (NFRs), architectural styles and design patterns, viewpoints and perspectives,
and architecture tools (oh, yes all of this in just a few hours!).
➤ Duration: 90 minutes (1.5 hours)
➤ Contents overview:
➤ Introduction to SA
➤ Design principles, patterns and architectural styles
➤ Creating an architecture
➤ Evolving architectures
➤ Living as an architect

4. REFACTORING FOR SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE SMELLS
➤ Smells are certain structures in the design that indicate violation of fundamental design principles
and negatively impact design quality. Depending on the granularity, smells could be at the level of
implementation, design, or architecture. In the last two decades, refactoring for code and design
smells have received considerable focus from both academia and industry. This talk covers large
scale refactoring for architectural smells which is gaining considerable attention from the software
engineering community in the last few years. The main focus is on real-world case-studies and
experiences in performing large scale refactoring for architectural smells from both industrial and
open source projects. This talk will provide useful pointers to the participants on how to deal with
refactoring for architectural smells in real-world contexts; further, it will also suggest research
questions for the software engineering community to explore.
➤ Duration: 60 minutes (1 hour)
➤ Contents overview:
➤ Why care about architecture refactoring?
➤ What is architectural refactoring?
➤ Case studies in architectural refactoring
➤ Challenges in architecture refactoring
➤ Key take-aways

5. REFACTORING FOR SOFTWARE DESIGN SMELLS
➤ Awareness of design smells - indicators of common design problems - helps
developers or software engineers understand mistakes made while designing and
apply design principles for creating high-quality designs. This talk provides insights
gained from performing refactoring in real-world projects to improve refactoring and
reduce the time and costs of managing software projects. The talk also presents
insightful anecdotes and case studies drawn from the trenches of real-world projects.
By attending this talk, you will know pragmatic techniques for refactoring design
smells to manage technical debt and to create and maintain high-quality software in
practice.
➤ Duration: 60 minutes (1 hour)
➤ Contents overview:
➤ Why care about design principles, design quality, or design smells?
➤ Refactoring as the primary means for repaying technical debt
➤ Smells that violate abstraction, encapsulation, modularisation, or hierarchy
➤ Tools and techniques for refactoring

6. APPLYING ‘SOLID PRINCIPLES’ & ‘DESIGN PATTERNS’ IN PRACTICE
➤ How to develop high quality software? What are the key/fundamental principles for
software design? What is the relationship between principles and design patterns?
Based on 3 years of research on applying software design principles, this talk shares
key insights on developing high-quality software in industrial contexts. By
attending this session, you’ll get a clear understanding of the key role that design
principles and patterns play in developing software in practice. So, don’t miss it!
➤ Duration: 60 minutes (1 hour)
➤ Contents overview:
➤ Why care about SOLID principles or design patterns?
➤ Design principles as application of design principles!
➤ What exactly is the relationship between principles, smells, refactoring, and
patterns?
➤ What are the effective ways to apply the fundamental principles and patterns in
practice (in day-to-day work)?

7. LEGACY TO MODERN JAVA: REFACTORING TO JAVA 8
➤ The Java 8 release has some of the most important feature additions to the Java language and
the library. Key features added in Java 8 include lambda functions, stream API and date and
time API. The main benefit of Java 8 features is productive programming: getting work done
more efficiently and effectively. This session introduces all the important concepts and
features important for leveraging Java 8 features for regular work and improve productivity.
Special feature: Live demo of refactoring open source legacy code base to show how lambdas
and streams can result in shorter and effective code.
➤ Duration: 1 hour (including Q & A)
➤ Target audience: Developers (especially Java developers) interested in functional
programming
➤ Contents overview:
➤ Introduction to lambdas and streams API
➤ Refactoring to lambda functions and functional interfaces
➤ Into the rapids: Refactoring loops to streams API
➤ Live demo: Refactoring legacy code to modern Java 8 code
➤ Wrap-up and Q & A

8. SPEAKER PROFILE
➤ Ganesh Samarthyam has 14+ years of working experience in IT industry.
➤ He is a co-founder of CodeOps Technologies, a start-up based in Bangalore.
Earlier, he worked for Siemens (Corporate Research and Technologies, Bangalore)
in "Software Architecture and Development" team for the last 6+ years. Before
Siemens, he worked in Hewlett-Packard’s C++ compiler team, Bangalore for 4.5
years. He also served as member of ANSI/ISO C++ standardization committee
(JTC1/SC22/WG21) from 2005 to 2007 representing HP.
➤ He has authored/co-authored many articles, research papers, and books. His
recent book is “Refactoring for Software Design Smells: Managing Technical
Debt” (Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier; November 2014); with translation to Korean.
➤ He has Software Engineering Certified Instructor (SECI) and Professional
Software Engineering Master (PSEM) certifications from IEEE.
➤ For more information, visit his websites: www.codeops.tech,
www.designsmells.com or his LinkedIn page: http://bit.ly/sgganesh.

9. ganesh@codeops.tech @GSamarthyam
www.codeops.tech slideshare.net/sgganesh
+91 98801 64463 bit.ly/sgganesh