Speaking

Full-day workshop at Nebraska.Code() covering Event Storming, Domain-Driven Design, CQRS, and Event Sourcing — building a working, business-focused, event-driven application in modern C#.

Talk at the Omaha .NET User Group on the Wolverine framework for asynchronous messaging, including integration with .NET logging, OpenTelemetry, and pairing with Marten for CQRS and Event Sourcing applications.

Talk at Nebraska.Code() on the principles and patterns that lead to successful event-driven and event-sourced systems.

Internal talk at Spreetail introducing event sourcing — delivered multiple times between 2020 and 2022 as the pattern gained traction on the team.

Talk at the Heartland Developer Conference (HDC) demystifying event sourcing — what it is, when to use it, and how it changes the way you think about data.

Internal talk at Spreetail going deeper on event sourcing — focusing on how modeling decisions shape the long-term health of an event-sourced system.

Internal talk at Spreetail introducing CQRS and Domain-Driven Design as tools for managing complexity in large software systems.

Talk at Nebraska.Code() making the case for Kotlin as the pragmatic next step for JVM developers — concise syntax, null safety, and full Java interop.

Talk at the Omaha Java User Group (OJUG) — a retrospective on running an intern program built around Java, covering lessons learned and what worked.