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Public Talks

2026 Speaker for "How to Accidentally Create a Graph-based Version Control System" at JJ Con (Git Merge '26) (talk will be on YouTube in the future)
2024 Speaker for "Skyrim Saved My Codebase And Can Save Yours Too" at DevIgnition 2024 — domain-driven design and how we maintain our monolithic repository at System Initiative (1,080+ views¹)
2023 Co-speaker for "It's time to rebuild DevOps" at the RTP Programmability and Automation Meetup (100+ views¹)
2022 Speaker for Cloud Native Rust: Let's Talk, hosted by David Flanagan
2021 Speaker at SUSECON 2021
2020 Keynote Speaker of the 2020 Wake Forest University STEM Slam

2026 Podcast Guest on Fallthrough's "When Reality Drifts" episode hosted by Matthew Sanabria and Kris Brandow — discussing System Initiative, infrastructure automation and AI (Apple Podcasts, Spotify)
2026 Podcast Guest on Fallthrough Break's "Megawatt Home Labs" episode hosted by Matthew Sanabria and Kris Brandow — discussing audio engineering backgrounds, the individual contributor to engineering management career path, and nerding out on computer hardware and homelabs (Apple Podcasts, Spotify)
2025 Podcast Guest on Never Rewrite Episode 105: A Core Engine Rewrite with Nick Gerace (Apple Podcasts, Spotify) — documenting the journey to co-architecting SI's engine layer, which is still in use today (80+ views¹)
2020 Podcast Guest on the Tech ONTAP Podcast Episode 245: Containers, Kubernetes and Automation in Dev and QA at NetApp

2026 Weekly Demos on the System Initiative YouTube channel (started in years prior and ended in January of this year)
2025 Creator of System Initiative on the Steam Deck — showcases SI and all its infrastructure management features running on the Steam Deck OLED, made by Valve (255+ views¹)
2021 Co-Host and Guest Presenter for SUSE Summer is Open: Rust Cloud Native (430+ views²) — this video is now private
2021 Host for the Rancher Labs Master Class: Scaling Kubernetes Nodes from Rancher (5,350+ views¹)

2025 Featured in Mike Vizard's System Initiative Extends Reach of IT Infrastructure Automation Platform article showcasing my demo that uses SI's AI agent to convert an Azure AKS Kubernetes cluster to an AWS EKS Kubernetes cluster
2021 Interviewed and Featured for an Wake Forest University OPCD Alumni Feature
2020 Interviewed and Featured for an Wake Forest University Computer Science Alumni Feature

2023 Attendee and Open Spaces Leader ("Moving Past Infrastructure as Code") at DevOpsDays DC 2023
2022 Panelist for the WFU CS Colloquium: Recruiting & Technical Interview Panel
2021 Technical Host (instruction by Ferrous Systems) for SUSE Hack Week 2021's Rust Bootcamp
2021 Panelist for the 2021 Wake Forest University STEM Slam