Kohsuke Kawaguchi is a prominent software engineer, best known as the creator of Jenkins, an open-source automation server that is widely used for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). He is currently the Co-Head of AI at leading DevOps provider, CloudBees and the former Co-CEO of Launchable, an AI platform that speeds up testing to help teams expedite their continuous integration (CI) and delivery pipelines, which was acquired by CloudBees in 2024.Kawaguchi developed Jenkins a...
Aug 12, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Spriha Tucker is the Field CTO at Buildkite, where she plays a pivotal role in bridging the gap between Buildkite's engineering teams and its clients. A two-time Y-Combinator founder, Spriha previously co-founded Aviator, a developer productivity platform, which served customers like Slack, Figma, Doordash, Bosch, and others. Her prior experience includes Product Management at Google on developer tools, data, infrastructure and search ads, and at Microsoft, on platform tooling. Spriha also taugh...
Aug 05, 2025•1 hr
Shawn Wildermuth has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a Vic-20 back in the early '80s. He has been a Microsoft MVP since 2003. You may have taken one of his more than twenty-five courses on Pluralsight. He's authored eight books and innumerable articles on software development. You can also see him at one of the local and international conferences he's spoken at including Techorama, KCDC, Stir Trek, TechBash, DevSum, and DevConnections. You can find Shawn on the following ...
Jun 09, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Chris Woodruff has been at the forefront of software development since before the first.COM boom, building a career that spans enterprise web development, cloud solutions, software analytics, and developer relations. As an Architect at Real Time Technologies, he applies his deep technical expertise to tackle complex challenges, with a particular focus on API design and scalable architectures. He is recognized as a Microsoft MVP specializing in .NET and Web Development. You can find Chris on the ...
Jun 03, 2025•1 hr
Maddy Montaquila (formerly Leger) is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft and the product lead for Aspire. She’s been building dev tools at Microsoft since 2018, working across the .NET mobile stack and helping bring .NET MAUI to life. Maddy has been obsessed with making developers’ lives easier ever since her first dev tools internship, where she realized it perfectly combined her tech background with her passion for product development. These days, she’s focused on making modern distributed a...
May 27, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Aravind is Director of Developer GTM at CodeRabbit, a lifelong learner and passionate technologist who transforms complex challenges into clear, engaging narratives. As a mentor, speaker, and open-source advocate, he champions community-driven innovation and hands-on experimentation.You can find Aravind on the following sites: Website X LinkedIn GitHub Bluesky YouTube Here are some links provided by Aravind: CodeRabbit CodeRabbit GitHub PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Spotify Apple Podcasts YouT...
May 20, 2025•57 min
Paul Stack is an infrastructure coder and has spoken at various events throughout the world about his passion for continuous integration, continuous delivery and good operational procedures and why they should be part of what developers and system administrators do on a day to day basis. He believes that reliably delivering software is more important as its development. Paul’s passions are the DevOps and Continuous Delivery movements and how they help the entire business and its customers.You ca...
May 13, 2025•57 min
Ralph is Microsoft's representative on the board of the Bytecode Alliance Foundation and is responsible for WebAssembly outside of the browser at the company. Ralph has worked with Linux for several decades and had worked on many Azure services through the years. His team is also responsible for the ContainerD project Runwasi, part of the SpinKube project. You can find Ralph on the following sites: Bluesky GitHub PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Music Amazon Music R...
May 06, 2025•1 hr 11 min
David is the Director of Architecture for NewDay, and the founder of Electric Head Software. Focusing on iterative software delivery, developer mentoring and cultural change - mostly working with London-based organisations. He speaks about software design, culture, and ethics in technology - rounded out by an assortment of talks about software that probably doesn't need to exist but makes the world a little more fun. David has previously served as the chief coding technical architect for JustGiv...
Apr 29, 2025•1 hr 11 min
Based in Los Angeles, Dave has dedicated his career to solving complex technical challenges across various domains. His professional journey includes roles as Principal Software Architect at PKWARE, Senior Backend Engineer at Fetch Rewards, and Staff Software Engineer at Bold Penguin, where he consistently designed high-performance, scalable systems. Dave's current passion project, Contextium, represents the culmination of his technical expertise and intellectual interests. This system transform...
Apr 15, 2025•1 hr 4 min
Dennis is a Microsoft MVP and Principal Consultant at Dutch Microsoft consultancy firm Aviva Solutions. With 27 years of experience under his belt as a software architect and/or lead developer, he specializes in designing full-stack enterprise solutions based on .NET as well as providing coaching on all aspects of designing, building, documenting, deploying and maintaining software systems in an agile world. He is the author of Fluent Assertions, an assertion library to make your unit tests look...
Mar 31, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Maxim has spent the last 25 years building massive distributed systems for Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Uber. Among other things, he led the design and development of the AWS SQS backend, and AWS Simple Workflow Service. At Uber, Maxim led the effort on open source projects Cherami and Cadence Workflow. Since October of 2019, Maxim has been the CEO/Cofounder of Temporal Technologies. Its flagship open source project temporal.io is redefining the way large-scale reliable applications are develo...
Mar 18, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Kee Jefferys is the co-founder of Session, an encrypted messaging application that minimizes the collection of user metadata. Kee has been involved in numerous technological projects, specializing in decentralized networking and blockchain. As an active and engaged member of the privacy-preserving technology community, Kee regularly attends conferences and meetups centered around privacy protection, the fight for encryption, and ethical dataYou can find Kee on the following sites: LinkedIn X Git...
Feb 27, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Giorgi is a software developer with almost two decades of experience. He works mainly with C#, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core and .NET MAUI. Giorgi is an open-source author and contributor on GitHub, a Microsoft MVP, and a member of the .NET Foundation.You can find Giorgi on the following sites: X LinkedIn GitHub Website Here are some links provided by Giorgi: EFCore.Visualizer EFCore.Visualizer Repo EntityFramework.Exceptions Repo PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Spotify Apple Podcasts YouT...
Feb 11, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Tanmai is the CEO of Hasura.io, a company he co-founded to develop software to simplify and accelerate application development. Before Hasura, he co-founded 34 Cross, a software development and consulting company focused on web and mobile development and helping Fortune 500 companies transition from monolithic to microservices architectures. While at 34 Cross, he also incubated two companies developing browser extensions, food delivery and food-finding apps for cities in India. Tanmai holds bach...
Jan 14, 2025•1 hr 9 min
This is Michelle in her own words. I am the Developer Engagement Lead for Microsoft in Asia as well as a Tedx Speaker, developer community mentor, Microsoftie and international conference Speaker. I live at the heart of the coding community and help drive awareness and engagement as a developer advocate and technology evangelist. I advocate for STEM, the Games Industry and Developers You can find Michelle on the following sites: Bluesky LinkedIn GitHub YouTube Here are some links provided by Mic...
Jan 07, 2025•1 hr 4 min
Jeramiah Dooley (he/him) leads the advocacy team focused on Enterprise customers, making sure that the product and content are aligned for organizations who are using GitHub every day. For more than 19 years he has spent his career at the intersection of 'enterprise' and 'what's next' and is excited to focus on bringing the best experience possible to developers and platform teams. Prior to GitHub, Jeramiah led the advocacy efforts around serverless container services at AWS, and was a Principal...
Dec 17, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Magnus Mårtensson is an entrepreneur, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Azure since the start of the cloud, and a Microsoft Regional Director (RD). He is a consultant, architect, product development lead, and he runs his own company Loftysoft. As an international speaker Magnus travels the world to teach, network, learn, and experience. His passions include connecting with audiences and organizing conferences such as CloudBurst and GlobalAzure. He is of course also very into good ...
Nov 26, 2024•1 hr 3 min
As CEO of Holepunch, Mathias brings his passion and extensive expertise in open-source development to the fore, having published more than 1000 modules to npm, the Node.js package manager, totalling billions of downloads every month. Mathias Buus is a self taught JavaScript hacker from Copenhagen. He works full time on open source projects and has been working with Node.js since the 0.2 days. Mathias likes to work with P2P and distributed systems and is the author of more than 550 modules on npm...
Nov 19, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Tessa Kriesel is the CEO of Built for Devs, where she fast-tracks developer tools from idea to essential. With over a decade in DevRel leadership at companies like Snap Inc. and Twitter, Tessa coaches early-stage startups and enterprises to build developer programs that drive adoption, innovation, and revenue. Her unique approach combines deep technical knowledge with strategic marketing, helping dev tools become indispensable parts of developers' workflows. A former engineering manager and self...
Oct 22, 2024•1 hr 21 min
Jamie is a software developer with 14 years' experience, a Microsoft MVP, 'Most Visionary Software Development & Consultancy Managing Director' awardee for 2023, and a skilled podcaster with 5 years in engaging content creation. With a versatile tech toolkit, Jamie crafts tailored solutions, while his MVP status showcases his community commitment. His visionary leadership drives excellence, and his podcasting journey reflects his prowess in relatable communication. An inspiring multi-faceted...
Oct 15, 2024•1 hr 11 min
April Speight began her career as a menswear stylist and visual merchandiser for brands such as Club Monaco, Saks, and Neiman Marcus. She graduated with a BS in Global Business & Public Policy from the University of Maryland and subsequently embarked on a career transition into tech. To close out her former career in fashion, she completed her Masters in Luxury & Fashion Management at the Savannah College of Art and Design - with a focus on the luxury automobile and luxury marijuana sect...
Sep 26, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Lukas Gentele is the co-founder and CEO of Loft Labs. Loft delivers Kubernetes-native tools, functionality and frameworks purpose-built for platform engineers to manage, activate and optimize their platform stack. Gentele is an experienced platform engineering innovator, committed to delivering solutions that empower platform teams to build seamlessly on Kubernetes. Prior to Loft, Gentele served as the co-founder and CEO at covexo GmbH and Webmans. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Scie...
Sep 10, 2024•1 hr 8 min
Chris DeMars is a Senior Developer Advocate at DigitalOcean. He has over 20 years of technical experience and speaks globally on various frontend topics and has received accolades for his community contributions, including the prestigious Microsoft MVP and Progress Champion awards. Chris is passionate about enhancing web development and helping developers achieve their goals. In his free time, he enjoys writing blog posts, rating Detroit-style pizza, and investigating UFO's. You can find Chris o...
Sep 03, 2024•1 hr 1 min
April is a senior developer advocate and DevOps practice lead at GitHub, specializing in application transformation and DevOps ways of working. Her focus is to take customers of a journey from legacy technology, to serverless and containers, where code comes first, while enabling them to take full advantage of DevOps practices. In April’s spare time she spends time outdoors hiking, skiing or scuba diving. She is also a triathlete competing in Ironman and Half Ironman triathlons. April is often a...
Aug 13, 2024•1 hr 3 min
David is a software engineer who spent most of his career in the Seattle area, working at Microsoft and Google. He has contributed to a range of products over the years, including ASP.NET, NuGet, Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Microsoft Office and Google Cloud infrastructure. He now lives in Paris, near where he grew up, and is currently taking a break from corporate life. In addition to family life, he spends his time trail running, playing pickleball, and contributing to various OSS proje...
Aug 06, 2024•56 min
Emily Freeman believes the greatest challenges we face aren’t technical, but human. She is a bestselling author of two books, DevOps for Dummies and 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know, and a prolific speaker, traveling across the globe to educate executives and engineers on the best approaches to AI, DevOps, and cloud engineering. Emily has been studying, leading, and shaping the developer journey for the last 15 years. She has led developer relations and product marketing at AWS, Micros...
Jul 23, 2024•58 min
David Giard is a former accountant and a former biochemist, who has been developing solutions using Microsoft technologies for over three decades. Currently, David helps people design and build solutions in his role as a Partner Solution Architect at Microsoft. David has been very active in the developer community, speaking at numerous major conferences, code camps, and user groups around the world; helping to lead user groups; and helping to organize conferences and other geek events. He is the...
Jul 19, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Zach is a serial entrepreneur, engineer, and cofounder of Fleet, where he works to unlock the full potential of osquery for enterprise and open-source customers. He brings the vision and experience of co-creating and working with osquery since the earliest design documents at Facebook in 2014. He has served as a member of the Linux Foundation osquery Technical Steering Committee since its inception in 2019. Prior to Fleet, Zach founded open-source security consultancy Dactiv, and co-founded endp...
Jun 25, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Marc is a Sr Developer Advocate at Diagrid with a strong focus on event-driven architectures. He loves helping developers to achieve more every day. You might have seen Marc at a developer meetup or conference, since he's a regular speaker and event-organizer in the area of Dapr, Azure cloud, and serverless technologies. From 2019 to 2024 Marc received the Microsoft Azure MVP award for his community contributions. In his spare time, Marc likes to give attention to the creative part of his brain....
Jun 04, 2024•1 hr 5 min
