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