Speaking

I believe one of the best ways to grow as an engineer is to teach others. During my time as an API Evangelist at Cerner, I got to present at conferences and internal events to audiences of over 200 attendees. These presentations gave me a chance to share what I’d learned and help other engineers level up their skills.

VUSE 2022: Git-ting Beyond Push and Pull

In 2022, I helped my company migrate our main product off of TFVC to Git so that we could change our workflows and deploy more than twice a week. Seen as a resident Git expert and evangelist, I was asked to put together a presentation on Git with Ryan Read for our internal developer conference. We set out with the goal of educating our engineers on how to use Git effectively. But we also wanted to bring more value than most of the “Getting Started with Git” guides on YouTube by going into the internals a bit, as well as going over some best practices. The talk was unfortunately not recorded, but I have attached our presentation below.

DevCon 2020: Take Learning Into Your Own Hands - Build a Homelab

2020 was a weird year for everyone, and while we didn’t have an in-person developer conference, the Cerner events team did manage to pull off a pretty good virtual one. I gave a talk encouraging self-learning, using one of my favorite hobbies homelabbing. The theme for this year was Jurassic Park.

DevCon 2019: Teach Others to be Experts Through Documentation

In 2019, I was given the opportunity to talk at Cerner’s internal developer conference on the importance of good documentation. One of my responsibilities as a Developer Evangelist was reviewing API designs and documentation, and so I wanted to lay out what makes documentation good, and why it is so important. I shared the stage with Aaron McGinn who was doing similar work with Cerner’s FHIR API platform. The theme of the conference was the 80’s, hence the wacky presentation.

CHC 2019

In 2019 I also gave a talk at the Cerner Health Conference to a technical crowd on developing applications that call HealtheIntent APIs from within Cerner’s Millennium platform. The code samples and presentation are available on Github, though I don’t have a recording of the presentation.