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Production systems
Retries, saturation, migrations, message handling and the evidence that exposes a failure's real mechanism.
On stage
Talks & workshops
I speak about operating distributed systems, building safe agentic software and improving the tools engineers use to ship. Sessions are grounded in production failures, concrete mechanisms and practical takeaways.
Speaking topics
Useful lessons from systems under pressure.
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Agentic engineering
Permission boundaries, safe repository automation, workload isolation and the operational cost of concurrency.
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Distributed systems
Kubernetes, gRPC, streaming APIs and designing for partial failure rather than the happy path.
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Developer experience
Internal tools, paved roads and workflows that help engineers ship with greater confidence.
Selected sessions
Conference and community talks.
React Global Summit · 2022
Adding Intelligence to React Apps with Azure Cognitive Services
A practical walkthrough of adding AI-powered search and language features to a React application.
ConferenceReactAzure AIDeveloper experienceAdelaide Junior Developer Meetup · May 2022
Tips for Junior Developers
Lessons from more than a decade in software engineering, focused on learning, feedback and building a durable career.
MeetupCareerLearningEngineering practiceAdelaide .NET User Group · 2021
Go for .NET Developers
A bridge from familiar .NET concepts to Go's type system, concurrency model, tooling and standard library.
MeetupGo.NETConcurrencyAdelaide .NET User Group
Introducing Blazor
An introduction to Blazor Server and WebAssembly, co-presented for the Adelaide .NET community.
MeetupBlazor.NETWebAssembly
Let’s connect
Bring a production engineering story to your event or team.
If one of these topics fits your conference, meetup or internal engineering session, send me a note with the audience and the problem you want the session to help solve.
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