On the TechTO stage ×1
First seen on the TechTO stage in 2017. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Dennis ↗
In their words
you go from riding a bicycle to driving a rocket ship and I'm not kidding around it really feels like that
this thing cost us the equivalent of one senior headcount that's it all in
when we were in a data center you had your eggs in a basket anyway you just didn't realize it
Quick answers
Who is Dennis Kuzmar?
An engineering leader with 25+ years' experience. He was CTO of JUICE Mobile and is now VP of Engineering at Thrive Career Wellness Platform, after roles at GroupBy, Joist and Thrillworks.
What did Dennis Kuzmar talk about at TechTO?
JUICE Mobile's data journey: joining in 2017, rebuilding a fragile six-person data platform on AWS with services like Kinesis, Redshift and Lambda, cutting a 24-hour query to minutes at the cost of one senior headcount.
What happened to JUICE Mobile?
Yellow Pages bought it for C$35M in 2016 and folded it into Mediative. After Yellow Pages exited the agency business in 2018, JUICE's assets were sold to Curate Mobile, effective January 2019.