Dave Hendricksen
Senior Architect for Thomson Reuters, Author, and Mentor
Dave is a senior architect for Thomson Reuters and has worked for Thomson Reuters for over 20 years where his focus is on architecting and delivering enterprise hybrid big data systems.
Dave has written two books with Addison-Wesley, and is currently working on a third:
- 12 Essential Skills for Software Architects – this book focuses on the soft skills needed by software architects, and has also been translated to Chinese.
- 12 More Essential Skills for Software Architects – this book focuses on the day to day technical skills needed by software architects.
- (In Progress) Enterprise Big Data – this book focuses on how to architect and build enterprise big data systems.
Dave is also the head coach for the Eagan High School FIRST Robotics program with over 150 students and over 60 mentors. Dave also likes to build things like trebuchets, go carts, and rain barrel watering systems.
Presentations
AWS ML/AI Services Deep Dive
Wednesday, 9:00 AM EST
This session will be a deep dive into the machine learning & artificial intelligence services and associated MLOPS within AWS. This will include updates to existing services, Amazon Data Wrangler, Sagemaker Studio, Sagemaker Pipelines, Sagemaker Endpoints, and any new services added (Amazon is constantly evolving in this space). We will cover key concepts of each of the services, common use cases, and design patterns.
Come to this session if you want to get up to speed on the ML/AI services in AWS.
AWS ML/AI Services Deep Dive
Wednesday, 11:00 AM EST
This session will be a deep dive into the machine learning & artificial intelligence services and associated MLOPS within AWS. This will include updates to existing services, Amazon Data Wrangler, Sagemaker Studio, Sagemaker Pipelines, Sagemaker Endpoints, and any new services added (Amazon is constantly evolving in this space). We will cover key concepts of each of the services, common use cases, and design patterns.
Come to this session if you want to get up to speed on the ML/AI services in AWS.
12 Essential Skills for Software Architects
Thursday, 9:00 AM EST
This session will take a look at how the pandemic has impacted the skills needed by software architects from ideation to product delivery. For many architects, it’s not the technology-related areas that give you problems, but people-related areas (some things never change). We will dive into both areas.
Come to this session if you want to learn some tricks and tips for how to raise your game as an architect.
Cryptocurrency Architecture
Thursday, 11:00 AM EST
This session will be a deep dive into the software architecture and ecosystem surrounding cryptocurrencies. This will include mining, staking, hardware and software wallets, ledgers, and exchanges. We will also take a look at several of the latest design patterns, features, and trends in this marketplace.
Come to this session if you want to get up to speed on cryptocurrencies, the underlying software architecture, and the surrounding ecosystem.
Books
12 More Essential Skills for Software Architects
by Dave Hendricksen
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Master The Crucial Technical Skills Every Software Architect Needs!
To succeed as a software architect, you must master both technical skills and soft skills. Dave Hendricksen illuminated the soft skills in his highly-regarded 12 Essential Skills for Software Architects. Now, in 12 More Essential Skills for Software Architects he turns to the technical side.
Drawing on his decades of experience, Hendricksen organizes technical skills into three areas.
PROJECT SKILLS: driving projects from ideation through delivery
TECHNOLOGY SKILLS: building, buying, and/or leveraging the right technologies
VISIONARY SKILLS: realizing an architectural vision that improves long-term competitivenessHe helps you develop and sharpen these key technical skills: from conceptualizing solutions to developing platforms and governance, and from selecting technology innovations to infusing architectures with an entrepreneurial spirit.
This guide reveals the technical skills you need and provides a coherent framework and practical methodology for mastering them.
Taken together, Hendricksen’s two books offer the most complete, practical pathway to excellence in software architecture. They’ll guide you through every step of your architecture career—from getting the right position to thriving once you have it.
Essential Architect Skills
Visionary Skills
Entrepreneurial Execution
Technology Innovation
Strategic RoadmappingTechnology Skills
Governance
Platform Development
Know-how
Architectural PerspectiveProject Skills
Estimation
Partnership
Discovery
Management
ConceptualizationDave Hendricksen is a big data architect for Thomson Reuters, where he works closely with the firm’s new product development teams to create innovative legal products for large-scale online platforms such as Westlaw.com. Hendricksen presented “Designing and Building Large-Scale Systems in an Agile World” at Carnegie Mellon University’s influential Software Engineering Institute.
12 Essential Skills for Software Architects
by Dave Hendricksen
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Master the Crucial Non -Technical Skills Every Software Architect Needs!
Thousands of software professionals have the necessary technical qualifications to become architects, but far fewer have the crucial non-technical skills needed to get hired and succeed in this role. In today’s agile environments, these “soft” skills have grown even more crucial to success as an architect. For many developers, however, these skills don’t come naturally–and they’re rarely addressed in formal training. Now, long-time software architect Dave Hendricksen helps you fill this gap, supercharge your organizational impact, and quickly move to the next level in your career.
In 12 Essential Skills for Software Architects, Hendricksen begins by pinpointing the specific relationship, personal, and business skills that successful architects rely upon. Next, he presents proven methods for systematically developing and sharpening every one of these skills, from negotiation and leadership to pragmatism and vision.
From start to finish, this book’s practical insights can help you get the architect position you want–and thrive once you have it!
The soft skills you need…
…and a coherent framework and practical methodology for mastering them!
Relationship skills
Leadership, politics, gracious behavior, communication, negotiation
Personal skills
Context switching, transparency, passion
Business skills
Pragmatism, vision, business knowledge, innovation