Talks

Up to date list of tech talks on my YouTube Playlist.
Note: this is updated as talks are publicised, so some of the most recent talks may take up to several weeks to show up here, depending on the conference.
Slides can be found on SlideShare.


Talk Resources

Talk Recording Event(s) Links Slides
Select Star: Flink SQL for Pulsar Folks Pulsar Summit 2021 Resources & Credits Slides
Sweet Streams are Made of These Data Eng Bytes AU, 2020 Resources & Credits Slides
Better, Faster, Stronger Streaming: Your First Dive Into Flink SQL Berlin Buzzwords 2021 Coming soon! Slides

Event Organization + Leadership

Event Role(s)
Flink Forward Global 2021 Program Committee Chair
Berlin Buzzwords 2021 Program committee member
PyCascades 2020 Grants Chair, Program committee member, co-coordinator for the Social
Flink Forward SF 2019 Program Committee member
ACT-W 2016 - 2018 Volunteer/photographer
PDXWIT 2016 - 2018 Volunteer/photographer
Open Source Bridge 2016 - 2018 Volunteer

Previous Speaking Events

Note: this list has not been updated for new 2020+ conferences.
pulsar Pulsar Summit Annual conference for Apache Pulsar, messaging and streaming communities.
San Francisco, CA/Virtual | 2020, 2021
berlinbuzz Berlin Buzzwords Technical conference on "storing, processing, streaming and searching large amounts of digital data, with a focus on open source software projects."
Berlin, Germany/Virtual | 2020, 2021
squirrel Flink Forward Technical conference dedicated to Apache Flink and the stream processing community, annual Europe edition.
Berlin, Germany | 2018, 2019, 2020
donut Donut.js Monthly speaker series, focused on technology, and building creativity and community in software. Proceeds go to local nonprofits.
Portland, OR | 2019
futuretalks Future Talks Monthly speaker series, looking at future trends impacting tech.
Portland, OR | 2017
actw ACT-W: Advancing Careers in Tech for Women Tech conference "where womxn and allies can build skills, grow their community, and accelerate their career path." All proceeds from ACT-W 2020 go towards ChickTech’s programs providing local high school girls with STEM education.
Portland, OR/Global | 2017, 2020
osb Open Source Bridge "Annual, volunteer-run event, held in Portland, Oregon, for developers working with open source technologies and people interested in learning the open source way."
Portland, OR | 2017

Other talks not available include internal conferences (Engineering Offsite) and "unconfs" (Java Unconf) at New Relic.