Speaking, Writing, etc

Speaking, Writing, etc
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Speaking & Writing

Over 100 public engagements across conferences, meetups, podcasts, and webinars. Here's a curated collection organised by topic.


Book Features

  • "The Business Value of Developer Relations" by Mary Thengvall (Apress, 2018) — My approach to conference talk proposals is referenced
  • "Hands-on APIs for AI and Data Science" by Ryan Day (O'Reilly, 2024) — Interview featured

Research

  • State of Kotlin 2018 — Led the first large-scale survey of Kotlin language usage, surveying 2,744 developers worldwide. Report | Kaggle Dataset

CI/CD & DevOps

Talks & Webinars

Title Event Year Links
Pipeline Patterns for Platform Teams JFokus 2024 YouTube
High-Performing Engineering Teams and the Holy Grail Civo Navigate 2023 YouTube
Practical Tips & Tricks for CI/CD Success GOTO London 2022 YouTube
CI/CD Success Craft Conference 2022 YouTube
Code Quality and CI/CD Success Codacy Webinar 2022 Codacy
Making CI/CD Builds Faster Linux Foundation 2022 Linux Foundation
CI/CD Success for Vue Developers Vue.js Live 2021 GitNation
Intro to Config Migration CircleCI Webinar 2023 YouTube

Writing


Distributed Systems, Edge & Cloud

Talks & Webinars

Title Event Year Links
Offline, Online, Always Consistent: CRDTs at the Edge Ditto Webinar 2024 LinkedIn
The Brave New World of Serverless Computing code.talks / Serverless Conf 2019 YouTube

Writing

Enablement Content


AI & Machine Learning

Talks

Title Event Year Links
You Are Not an AI Developer WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2024 Video

Mobile Development & Kotlin

Talks

Title Events Year Links
State of Kotlin Kotlin London, droidcon NYC, droidcon Berlin, Milan Kotlin Community Conf, London Java Community 2018 YouTube

Writing


Developer Relations & Community

Talks

Title Event Year Links
How Many Hats Should a DevRel Wear? DevRelCon 2022 YouTube

Writing


Panels & Discussions

Topic Event/Host Year Links
Modern Web - State of Automation This Dot Media 2021 YouTube

Panelists: Tracy Miranda (CDF), Alison Dowdney (Weaveworks), Taylor Dolezal (Hashicorp)


Podcasts & Interviews

Podcast Episode Year Links
Eficode DevOps Podcast The Art of Fixing a Build 2021 Episode
Scaling Developer Success (Peritus.ai) Developer Success with CircleCI 2022 Audible
Professional Developer Communities on Discord Guest 2021 YouTube
Hackernoon Interview Rise of Kotlin 2018 Article

Book Me

I'm open to:

  • Conference talks
  • Webinars & livestreams
  • Podcast appearances
  • Guest lecturing
  • Company tech talks

Topics I speak about:

  • Edge computing & distributed systems
  • CI/CD pipeline optimization
  • Developer experience & enablement
  • AI for developers (practical perspectives)
  • Mobile development & Kotlin
  • Building developer communities

Get in touch: zan@markan.me | LinkedIn | Bluesky