Talks & appearances

Here are presentations and courses I have given as well as videos and podcasts I have appeared on.

Podcasts & videos

MongoDB EF Core Provider

Talking about the MongoDB EF Core Provider on the:

Herding Code

Episode 163 on Sticker Tales and building Windows Store apps
Episode 50 on LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework and Fontography

Talks

Building Software with AI: A Claude Code Deep Dive

From first prompts through to skills, MCP servers and feedback loops, covering when to give an AI agent a big task versus a small one and how to manage risks such as hallucinated confidence, over-reliance and prompt injection.

Presented at the AI Sprint, Guernsey, 16th October 2026.

Building Online Applications with Claude Code

A two-day practical course for beginners on building a web application by directing Claude Code from the terminal, using an online store with user sign-in, a product catalogue and a shopping basket as the project. It also covers Git, Supabase and deploying to Cloudflare Pages.

Taught at GTA, 30th September and 7th October 2026.

Claude Code: a guide to building software with AI

How to get more out of Claude Code than basic chat prompts: skills, purpose-built tools and MCP servers, plus feedback loops and when to keep a human in charge of subjective decisions.

Presented at Digital Greenhouse, 30th April and 28th May 2026.

Tailwind CSS: How I learned to stop worrying and love utility classes

A talk about Tailwind CSS by request from the Nuxt Please talk crowd.

Presented at Lunch && Code, June 2024.

Nuxt Please: Ditching WordPress for fast, modern, content-driven sites

Nuxt is a Vue-based engine for generating static and dynamic websites. Leveraging the static aspects as well as markdown-powered content and a lightweight CMS you can develop secure, fast sites that will scale for pennies.

Presented at Future Rewired 2024.

Designing & Implementing REST Web APIs

REST APIs are the backbone of modern web services and this talk covers the design and implementation of REST APIs.

Presented at Future Rewired 2023.

Cloud Scale Data Shaping

What I learned about reshaping data for performance and scale from my time at Xbox and Netflix.

Presented at Future Rewired 2022.

Interviewing at Big Tech

What I learned about Interviewing at Big Tech from successful loops and offers from Microsoft, Netflix, Epic Games, SpaceX, Activision, GitHub, Auth0 as well as what I learned from being the interviewer.

Presented at Future Rewired 2021