BragTalks

Episode 45: Incorporating Standards Leadership into your Career: Ed Burns

In this episode of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BragTalks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://bragtalks.com/episodes/], host Heather VanCura interviews Ed Burns about how to incorporate standards leadership into your technical career journey. Ed shares his experiences and the impact that his participation in standards has had on his career. Listen to hear about how he approached getting involved and how he developed his leadership in this area. Season 7 is about sharing the experiences of technical professionals and building on the interviews from the recently published book '⁠⁠⁠Developer Career Masterplan'⁠⁠⁠ [https://a.co/d/bwwEvSF]. This episode is a story that links to Chapter 14 of the book. Biography: Ed Burns is currently Principal Architect on the Java Tooling and Experiences team at Microsoft. In this role, Ed will help make Azure the best place for Enterprise Java. Ed has worked on a wide variety of client and server side web technologies since 1994, including NCSA Mosaic, Netscape 6, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plugin, Jakarta Tomcat and JavaServer Faces, and the Servlet specification. Ed has lead or co-lead the expert groups for Servlet and JavaServer Faces. Ed has published four books with McGraw-Hill: JavaServerFaces: The Complete Reference (2006), Secrets of the Rockstar Programmers: Riding the IT crest (2008) JavaServer Faces 2.0: The Complete Reference (2010) and Hudson Continuous Integration In Practice (2013). To learn more about his books or projects, you can visit his website at .

Episode 44: Participate in Standards & Open Source Projects: Patrick Chanezon

In this episode of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BragTalks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://bragtalks.com/episodes/], host Heather VanCura interviews Patrick Chanezon about participating in standards and open source projects &/or communities. Patrick shares his experiences and the impact this participation in the projects and communities has had on his career. Listen to hear about how he approached getting involved and even some of the mistakes made along the way. Season 7 is about sharing the experiences of technical professionals and building on the interviews from the recently published book '⁠⁠Developer Career Masterplan'⁠⁠ [https://a.co/d/bwwEvSF]. This episode is a story that links to Chapters 11 and 14 of the book..hope you enjoy our new look and Season 7 of BragTalks! Biography: Patrick Chanezon manages the Cloud Developer Advocacy team in Developer Relations at Microsoft, helping developers achieve more with AI on Microsoft Cloud. Previously, at Docker Inc., he helped to build Docker, the world’s leading software container platform, for developers and sysadmins. He helped establish open source and standards organizations such as Open Container Initiative, Cloud Native Computing Foundation or Green Software Foundation. Software developer and storyteller, he spent 8 years building platforms at Netscape & Sun, then 19 years evangelizing platforms at Google, VMware & Microsoft. His main professional interest is in building and kickstarting the network effect for these wondrous two-sided markets called Platforms. He has worked on platforms for AI, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Web, Social, Commerce, Ads, and Portals.

Episode 43: Mentorship and Community: Emily Jiang

In this episode of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BragTalks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://bragtalks.com/episodes/], host Heather VanCura interviews Emily Jiang about mentorship and communities. Emily shares her experiences with mentorship and engaging in communities. Listen to hear about how she approached mentorship and the impact it made in her career. Season 7 is about sharing the experiences of technical professionals and building on the interviews from the recently published book '⁠⁠Developer Career Masterplan'⁠⁠ [https://a.co/d/bwwEvSF]. This episode is a story that links to Chapter 7 of the book..hope you enjoy our new look and Season 7 of BragTalks! Bio: Emily Jiang is a Java Champion. She is Liberty Cloud Native Architect and Chief Advocate, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) in IBM, based at Hursley Lab in the UK. Emily is a MicroProfile and Jakarta EE guru and also a book author ofibm.biz/MicroProfileBook [http://ibm.biz/MicroProfileBook]. At IBM, she leads the effort of implementing MicroProfile and Jakarta EE specifications on Open Liberty.She is passionate about MicroProfile and Jakarta EE. She regularly speaks at conferences, such as QCon, Code One, DevNexus, JAX London, Voxxed, Devoxx, EclipseCon, GeeCon, JFokus, etc.Connect with Emily on Twitter [https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://twitter.com/emilyfhjiang__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!MuzWzob7aoowxRsUsqVWE4qsEWnqQEhQJ_bPcOXZsMH26Gj5duADPLNbLXov0eSjdU5erJ1dUTg-GuUcT9LXcR8AvQ$] and LinkedIn [https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilyfhjiang__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!MuzWzob7aoowxRsUsqVWE4qsEWnqQEhQJ_bPcOXZsMH26Gj5duADPLNbLXov0eSjdU5erJ1dUTg-GuUcT9J59PBsxw$].

Episode 42: Engaging in User Group Communities: Mary Grygleski

In this episode of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BragTalks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://bragtalks.com/episodes/], host Heather VanCura interviews Mary Grygleski about participating in user group communities. Mary shares her vast experiences engaging in communities and some tips for getting involved in user group communities. Listen to hear about how she approached participation and the impact it made in her career. Season 7 is about sharing the experiences of technical professionals and building on the interviews from the recently published book '⁠Developer Career Masterplan'⁠ [https://a.co/d/bwwEvSF]. This episode is a story that links to Chapter 8 of the book..hope you enjoy our new look and Season 7 of BragTalks! Biography: Mary is a Java Champion, and an experienced, passionate Developer Advocate.  She has serviced companies as an advocate, such as IBM and DataStax in topic areas that include, most recently, GenAI, Streaming systems, Open source, Java, Cloud, and Distributed Messaging systems..  She started as an engineer in Unix/C, then transitioned to Java around 2000 and has never looked back since then.   She is an active tech community builder outside of her day job, and currently the President of the Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG), as well as the Chicago Chapter Co-Lead for AICamp.

Episode 41: Artificial Intelligence & Continuous Learning: Eileen He

In this episode of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BragTalks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://bragtalks.com/episodes/], host Heather VanCura interviews Eileen He about continuous learning and developing new skills quickly. Eileen shares her experience learning about machine learning and artificial intelligence. Listen to hear about how she approached learning and applied it in her career. Season 7 is about sharing the experiences of technical professionals and building on the interviews from the recently published book 'Developer Career Masterplan' [https://a.co/d/bwwEvSF], starting with a story that links to Chapter 1 of the book..hope you enjoy our new look and Season 7 of BragTalks! Links mentioned in this episode: StatQuest - a Statistics related YouTube Channel.   I used that to complement my learning when I was taking statistics courses. They covered some popular machine learning algorithms, in an approachable, understandable way. Recently they started to cover popular topics like GenerativeAI / transformer models.   https://www.youtube.com/@statquest [https://www.youtube.com/@statquest] 3-blue-1-brown - also really good at explaining, visualizing concepts: https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown [https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown] Stanford Online machine learning courses - there are many of them.  Here are a few courses.  You can search and find more on YouTube. Andrew Ng Machine Learning: https://youtu.be/jGwO_UgTS7I?si=Xfnj1Gy-BZ31L8k1 [https://youtu.be/jGwO_UgTS7I?si=Xfnj1Gy-BZ31L8k1] Other courses / professors: Meta learning: https://youtu.be/bkVCAk9Nsss?si=yYpzRFky7YgL3D77 [https://youtu.be/bkVCAk9Nsss?si=yYpzRFky7YgL3D77] Reinforcement Learning: https://youtu.be/FgzM3zpZ55o?si=n0ypiPA1byypJo1Z [https://youtu.be/FgzM3zpZ55o?si=n0ypiPA1byypJo1Z] Machine Learning with Graphs: https://youtu.be/JAB_plj2rbA?si=pua8Aptk1Zh-jYC5 [https://youtu.be/JAB_plj2rbA?si=pua8Aptk1Zh-jYC5] I also recommend Andrew Ng's "Machine Learning Specialization" courses on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vStJoetOxJg?si=4_mJkN2xoBJjdKIr [https://youtu.be/vStJoetOxJg?si=4_mJkN2xoBJjdKIr] Biography: Eileen He is a Software Development Vice President at Oracle.  She has a track record of successfully leading diverse projects spanning on-premise software, cloud infrastructure and services, and cutting-edge machine learning systems.  Eileen is a passionate advocate for women in tech.  She actively volunteers and contributes her time to empowering initiatives like Oracle Women's Leadership, anitab.org/Grace Hopper Conference, and Technovation.org.  She holds a master's degree in computer science from Indiana University, Blooming and an MBA from the Wharton School.