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Using Erlang to drive a mobile payment application

This talk will discuss the backend implementation of the transaction and payment processing system for the Wingman mobile application. It will show how the requirements of high-demand mobile app interactions can be addressed via the creation of a RESTful API on top of a scalable server-based platform coded entirely in Erlang. It will conclude with a live demonstration where the operational backend will be published to Heroku's hosted service.

About Jordan Wilberding

Jordan Wilberding is a Ph.D. student at the Information Retrieval Laboratory at Georgetown University. His research includes: mediated search, large scale data mining, secured indexing, and hardware-optimized search.

Jordan is also employed at MITRE, where he works on prototyping solutions for government agencies. He co-founded a startup, Wingman, dedicated to helping bar patrons order their drinks more easily. He also co-founded and organizes ErlangCamp and is a key contributor to Erlware.

Some might say Jordan is a beer snob, but he prefers the term beer enthusiast. He enjoys homebrewing and drinking a wide variety of craft beers, but especially enjoys Belgian Trappist Ales and high-gravity hoppy ales. Jordan is also an amateur photographer and never leaves home without a camera or two.