Ten minutes of Tech Tools!

speaker: Andrew (andrew@andrewandrade.ca)
date: October 8, 2015

This is the webpage companioning my talk at TronCon titled Ten minutes of tech tools for getting things done at the speed of thought!

Note: upon popular request, I will set up a tutorial video about using linux and my setup. I am very glad everyone enjoyed the free style demo of me doing random things!

Proof of getting things done at the speed of thought:
I started preparing for this talk 2 hours before and I was done after 1 hour and 17 minutes. Here is a time laspe video of me in action:

About Me

Andrew Andrade (andrew@andrewandrade.ca)
Website: mrandrewandrade.com
Entrepreneur and 4A Mechatronics Engineering Student

Background

Highschool:

• Robotics Team
  
• High Skills Major in Manufacturing
  
• Machine Shop and Chrysler
  

Waterloo:

• worked at 2 startups (petroleum and mechanical)
  
• Reservoir Engineering at Suncor
  
• Manufacturing Engineering at Facebook
  
• Various Manufacturing Consulting
  

PetroPredict

After 2B I "dropped-out" to do a startup called PetroPredict

Initially: Use machine learning to identify leaks in oil wells under the ground.

Pivoted: Use data analytics for risk modeling of pipelines (on the surface).

"Awesome Journey"

Some technical learnings:

• read (and eventually understand) research papers
  
• AI, machine learning, data science and probablistic robotics
  
• leading software development for production level system
  
• running servers and deploying solutions
  
• leading teams to GTD
  

Actually: The Journey

Results:

• deployed solution to a multi-billion dollar energy company
  
• won couple of awards
  
• won couple of hackathons
  
• won research award for artificial intelligence for AI in oil and gas
  
• published in self driving vehicles
  

10 minutes of tech tools!

This presentation is about tools!

1. Operating systems
2. Software tools
3. Project tools
4. Academic tools
5. Hardware stuff

Operating systems

Windows:

• since forever
  
• lots of CAD software
  
• totally was afraid of command line
  

Mac:

• "affair" at Facebook
  
• learnt the power of unix and commandline
  
• learn about hive, hbase and servers
  
• actually built servers
  

Operating systems

Linux:

• currently use mint
  
• love using terminal
• run servers
  

Using Mac:

• iterm2

Becoming a wizard

Terminal tools:

• Tmux
  
• Vim (or another text editor)
  
• zsh (instead of bash)
  
• git (or other version control)
  

Check out my dotfiles

Quick Demo!

Software tools

Git:

• github / bitbucket / gitlabs

Hosting:

• Github pages
• csclub.uwaterloo.ca

Servers and VM:

• csclub.uwaterloo.ca
• amazon web services
• digital ocean
• windows azure

Project tools

Task management:

• asana or trello
• instagrantt

Messaging:

• messenger.com
• slack
• irc

Academic tools

Writing Reports:

• markdown
• pandoc
• latex Quick demo!

Doing research:

AskWonder

Hardware links

• arduino tutorials / Exploring Arduino //Jeremy Blum
• github.com // social code + a lot more!
• hackster.io // github for hardware
• upverter.com // github + google express for EE
• Instructables //Tutorials
• Sparkfun //Good tutorials!
  
• Adafruit //More good tutorials!
• HardwareWorkShop
  
• Grabcad // CAD models
• Thingiverse // 3d printing fun
• McMaster-Carr // mech hardware + models