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I'm excited about sharing my thoughts and knowledge, and
getting feedback from the community!
Please feel free to reach out if you'd like to discuss a
presentation, panel or another speaking opportunity.
posit::conf 2025
Co-presented "Tips & Tricks from the maintainers of Positron" with Melissa
Barca
at posit::conf 2025
in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Presented tips and tricks for getting settled into coding with Positron, Posit's
next-generation IDE for data science.
Covered topics from helpful settings, to workflow optimizations and effectively pairing with
Positron Assistant, Positron's AI coding assistant.
ILP Summit 2022
Moderated panel "Broadening Financial Inclusion… What does that mean?" at the Interledger Summit in New Orleans,
Louisiana, USA.
This panel discussed considerations, barriers and progress around expanding Financial
Inclusion, bringing together
perspectives from various backgrounds: building community, supporting underserved groups,
advocacy and product
development.
- Panel Replay (at 4:07:55)
Panelists
Women in Tech Panel
Moderated
Software Secured's first Women in Tech Panel:
"Breaking Barriers When Entering the Tech
Industry"
This panel focused on the unique challenges
that women and other underrepresented groups
tend to face when trying to enter the tech
industry, as well as strategies to overcome
those barriers.
Panelists
Software Secured Webinar
Co-presented
"Secure Architecture Principles for
Full-Stack Apps"
with Emad Messiha, on behalf of
Software Secured.
This presentation was designed as a
faux-whiteboarding exercise -- just a casual
conversation between two developers, aspiring to
build a secure application. :)
MoreVMs'21
Presented "Successes and Challenges in Bringing Performance to Java with Inline Types" at MoreVMs'21: Workshop on Modern Language Runtimes, Ecosystems, and VMs, part of the ‹Programming› 2021 Conference.
CASCON x EVOKE 2020
Presented "Successes and Challenges in Bringing Performance to Java with Inline Types" at CASCON x EVOKE 2020, in the 4th Workshop on Advances in Open Runtimes and Cloud Performance Technologies.
Creative Commons Global Summit 2020
Panelist for "Can Web Monetization Support Digital Creators?" at Creative Commons Global Summit 2020.
IBM Cloud Developer Conference 2020
Co-Presented "Transforming an Idea into an Experience with Agile and Design Thinking" and "Build and Deploy a Full Stack Cloud App in 25 Minutes" with Brittny Lapierre and Igor Braga at the IBM Cloud Developer Conference 2020.
Recordings
