TeamSPS
Moments from life at SPS Commerce and our #TeamSPS community. Highlights include company meetings announcing sponsorships, Tech Connect conferences, volunteer projects and social events like hockey games.
- Let’s Invest: Building Strong Community and Empowering Our Future with Steve Buchanan
- Mastering LLM Optimization: RAG, Fine-Tuning, and Combined Strategies with Prashanth Pollishetty and Varun Kodathala
- Google Sheets + AI, the new Brainstorming, and Custom GPTs with Jeffrey Williams
- Retro-Computing Hobby with Girish Jorapurkar
- DevSecOps the Good, the Bad, the Ugly with Brian Dolan-Goecke
POAP 7541524 at Horizon Workday Go Live.
Wishing everyone in retail a good Cybermonday from the #TeamSPS Observation Station.
POAP 7521420 at Horizon Oracle Finance Go Live.
POAP 7454382 at SPS TechJam 2025 - Attendee.
POAP 7453396 for SPS Women in Tech Q3 2025 Lunch & Learn.
The image for this POAP was created via GPT-5 with the prompt:
I would like you to generate an image for a circular POAP badge with a vibrant teal-to-orange gradient background. At the center is the Women in Tech (WiT) logo — a clean, minimal flat-style laptop with coffee and charts inside, outlined in white. Radiating outward are subtle glowing neural network dots and arcs, minimal and elegant, giving an AI-inspired futuristic vibe. At the bottom-right inside the circle is a small playful line-art outline portrait of Jamie Thingelstad, wearing a hat with a bird perched on it, drawn in the same minimal outlined style as the WiT logo. Inside the circle edges, curved text: on top “WiT Q3 Lunch & Learn”, on bottom “How AI is Transforming Product Creation”. A small ribbon banner under the logo reads “Jamie Thingelstad · Sept 18, 2025”. Fun, playful, but clean and polished, with all elements fully contained within the circle for cropping.
POAP 7450052 at SPS Kubb Tournament 2025.
At our Q2 #TeamSPS company meeting I was honored to share the stage with Elizabeth Neuville and Christy Sovereign and announce our support of the 2026 Special Olympics USA Games — SPS Commerce is the official Bocce sponsor! Why Bocce? It needs the most volunteers and TeamSPS values volunteering!
End of day #TeamSPS photo at MnTech Tech Connect 2025. Sitting in the chair was by popular demand. 😬😊
Wonderful #TeamSPS group photo at MnTech Tech Connect 2025. Was very sad that I missed the photo — I got talking to people after the morning keynote and completely missed it!
Great to have so many #TeamSPS folks here at #Minnebar19! Know more to be more! 💙
Mindspace Skyliner. 📍
Great view of business district from our #TeamSPS location in Warsaw, Poland! 🇵🇱
This morning we had a great kick-off to our annual #TeamSPS TechConnect 2025 event! Team members from four continents powering the connections that move the world of commerce forward. Bonus points for special zoom background that creates connections between everyone! 🪄
Fun #TeamSPS hockey game — Minnesota Wild v Colorado Avalanche! 🏒
More than 60 years of SPS tenure between the four of us!
This year’s #TeamSPS Cyberweek Challenge coin was designed as a weightlifting plate. I thought it would be awesome to put it on a barbell and Steve came up with a great way to do it. Six plates is a 600k parcel lift! Swol! 💪
Excited for TeamSPS SKO 2025!
Wrapping up Growth Summit #TeamSPS did a Give Back event where we assembled 1,000 SolarBuddy lights. Impact 4 Good led the team through the exercise. The lights were pretty simple to assemble yet cool to see how they functioned.
Incredible morning building connections at SPS Growth Summit! Incredible keynote from Riaz Meghji! So much great energy and talent as we continue to grow the world’s retail network.#TeamSPS
Minnebar 18
Today was one of the biggest days of the year for the technology community of the Twin Cities — Minnebar 18! Once again Best Buy Headquarters was a gracious host sponsor and Minnestar welcome over 1,000 passionate technolgies to partake in at least 80 sessions led by members of the community. Tyler and I had a great time and attended many sessions.
The main room as the day gets kicked off.
Minnebar 18 t-shirts ready! They look amazing!
Ran into Colin Hirdman who had this incredible display integrated with his shirt.
One of our sessions learning about LLM techniques.
Steve Buchanan introducing himself as he gets Session 0 (aka Minnebar Keynote) going.
Very, very long line for pizza.
Great to see Maria Boland Ploessl, Benjamin Ortega, me, Jeff Sellner, Tony Collen, and Adrienne Peirce.
The session we attended Retro Hardware.
SPS Commerce is a terabyte sponsor of Minnestar!
We didn’t get everyone, but several of #TeamSPS got together for a team photo at Minnebar 18!
👋 Awesome community members that I got to say Hi to at Minnebar (incomplete and unordered)…
Bridget Kromhout, Nate Anderson, Levi McCormick, Jeanette Dorazio, Justin Porter, Casey Helbling, Paul DeBettignies, John Roberts, Jenna Pederson, Colin Hirdman, Samantha Grumdahl, Matt Decuir, Gordon Raup, Maria Boland Ploessl, Adrienne Peirce, Jeff Sellner, Tony Collen, Benjamin Ortega, Corwin Diamond, Bode Falade, Mark Gritter, Nikki Riemersma, Jim Bernard, Pete Clark, Tor Flatebo, Tori Peraza, Melissa Buening, Jade Barker, David Duccini, Peter Edstrom, Graeme Thickins, Molly Doyle, Robert Weber, John Murphy, John Kelly, and Robert Speer.
See also Minnebar collection.
Added the new #TeamSPS Cyberweek 2023 challenge coin to my display case. What a collection!
