PODCAST · technology
Coffee and Open Source
by Isaac Levin
Join host Isaac Levin as he has great conversations with folks in the technology and Open Source Community
Episodes
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Kevin Whinnery
Kevin Whinnery is a developer tools and developer experience leader who has worked in developer relations and engineering roles at companies including Stainless, OpenAI, Deno, Twilio, and Retool. You can find Kevin on the following sites: Website GitHub Bluesky LinkedIn X Here are some links...
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Carter Rabasa
Carter Rabasa is a Seattle-based developer community organizer and investor in developer tool startups. He organizes SeattleJS and CascadiaJS.You can find Carter on the following sites: GitHub X Here are some links provided by Carter: SeattleJS CascadiaJS PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Spotify...
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Jason Torres
Jason Torres is a Developer Advocate at JetBrains, where he works with the WebStorm team at the intersection of developer tools, AI, and developer experience. Before entering tech, Jason spent 15 years working in film and television production before transitioning into software. He is also the...
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Mat Velloso
Mat Velloso is the Chief Product Officer at Docker and an advisor and board member. He previously served as a vice president at Meta, Google DeepMind, and Microsoft. You can find Mat on the following sites: LinkedIn GitHub X PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Music...
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Sam Basu
Sam Basu is a developer advocate for Uno Platform, a 13-time Microsoft MVP, speaker, author, and streamer. He writes Modern Developer Ramblings about cross-platform development, AI, and developer productivity.You can find Sam on the following sites: Blog X GitHub Twitch Here are some links…
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Ed Charbeneau
A Developer Advocate for Deepgram with over ten years of experience in advocacy, Ed Charbeneau focuses on fostering engagement with the developer community while supporting the development of innovative AI-Native applications. With a diverse technical skill set, Ed contributes to building…
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Brady Gaster
Based near Seattle, Brady Gaster aspires to make it easy for .NET developers to party in the cloud as the product manager behind Visual Studio’s Azure right-click publish and Connected Services features. He also helps with Aspire tooling support in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. When not...
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Kevin Griffin
Kevin W. Griffin is an independent software consultant and 16-time Microsoft MVP specializing in ASP.NET Core, Microsoft Azure cloud architecture, SignalR real-time applications, and .NET modernization. You can find Kevin on the following sites: X Bluesky LinkedIn GitHub YouTube Sessionize…
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Michael Washington
Michael Washington is an ASP.NET and C# programmer with experience in process improvement, billing systems, and student information systems. He is the founder of AiHelpWebsite.com and BlazorHelpWebsite.com.You can find Michael on the following sites: Blog GitHub X YouTube Here are some links...
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Jimmy Bogard
Jimmy Bogard is a software architect and consultant who created the OSS libraries AutoMapper, MediatR, and Respawn. He helps teams build systems faster, better, and more maintainable. You can find Jimmy on the following sites: Blog X GitHub LinkedIn YouTube PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Spotify...
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Pavlo Baron
Pavlo Baron is co-founder and CEO of Platform Engineering Labs, creators of formae - Infrastructure-as-code made for humans in the AI era. Pavlo is looking back at a long career, having spent plenty of time on all sides of the table - in startups, enterprises and consulting. He was co-founder and...
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Stacy Cashmore
Speaker, author, and software developer recognized with a Microsoft MVP Award for Developer Technologies. Stacy has been developing solutions since the mid-1990s across various industries. She authored Beginning Azure Static Web Apps and is passionate about Azure, DevOps, and empowering…
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Martin Finkel
Martin builds cross-platform multimedia infrastructure and developer tools. Since 2017, he has maintained major LibVLC ecosystem projects including LibVLCSharp and VLC for Unity, used by developers worldwide to build media applications. He is also the founder of pkgstore.io and regularly shares…
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Rizel Scarlett
Rizel Scarlett is a Principal Developer Advocate at Entire and a software engineer and community builder. She previously worked in developer advocacy roles at Block and GitHub and shares content about open source and AI agents.You can find Rizel on the following sites: X GitHub LinkedIn Mastodon...
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Paige Bailey Returns!
Paige Bailey is the AI Developer Relations Engineering Lead at Google DeepMind. Prior to returning to Google DeepMind, Paige spent just over a year at Microsoft as a director of machine learning and MLOps at GitHub, working on projects like GitHub Codespaces, VS Code, and Copilot. As a former...
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Debbie O'Brien
Here is Debbie in her own words. With over 15 years experience in Frontend development I have worked as a Tech Lead and consultant for many important clients with various technologies and often with a strong focus on performance. I have lead teams both in house and remotely as well as giving...
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Brittany Ellich
Brittany is a Staff Software Engineer at GitHub, helping build the platform millions of developers rely on every day. She hosts the Overcommitted podcast, writes The Balanced Engineer newsletter, and speaks at conferences about AI, accessibility, developer productivity, and building a software...
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Joe Finney
Joe Finney is a Product Owner and MVP by day and builds productivity apps for Windows at night. When he is not programming he is birding, running, and enjoying tasty coffee and beer in Milwaukee.You can find Joe on the following sites: Bluesky Blog X GitHub Mastodon PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE…
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Pierce Boggan
Pierce leads the VS Code product team. He has a long history in developer tools and joined via Microsoft's acquisition of Xamarin in 2016. He lives in Park City, UT and enjoys skiing and biking with his wife and two kids.You can find Pierce on the following sites: Blog X GitHub LinkedIn PLEASE...
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Gerald Versluis
Gerald Versluis is a software engineer at Microsoft, who wields the power of .NET to conquer any project that comes his way. With a career spanning over a decade, he's tackled it all, from frontend to backend and everything in between, using .NET MAUI, Azure, ASP.NET, and all the other .NET...
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Courtney Yatteau
Courtney Yatteau is a Developer Advocate on Esri's Developer Experience Team, where she helps developers build better web applications with modern JavaScript tools, libraries, and mapping technology. Before Esri, she taught computer science and mathematics, which shaped her approach to making...
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William Morgan
William Morgan is the co-founder and CEO of Buoyant, creators of Linkerd. Prior to Buoyant, he was an infrastructure engineer at Twitter, where he helped move Twitter from monolith to microservices. He was a software engineer at Powerset, Microsoft, and Adap.tv, and a research scientist at...
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Brian Alvey
Brian Alvey is CTO at WordPress VIP, the enterprise platform trusted by brands such as CNN, Salesforce, Bloomberg, and NBCUniversal (and built on WordPress Open Source, which powers nearly 45% of the internet). Brian is also one of the internet’s original builders and leaders in online publishing…
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Nir Valtman
Nir is an experienced information security leader, executive, expert and a public speaker at leading conferences globally, including Black Hat, Defcon, BSides, and RSA. Before founding Arnica, Nir lead the product and data security across Finastra, established security at Kabbage (acquired by…
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Helen Hou-Sandí
Helen Hou-Sandí is a Staff Software Engineering Manager for Accessibility at GitHub and a WordPress Lead Developer. As a technologist, she is a leader in open source software and management, and caree deeply about building great user experiences. She am also a classically-trained pianist who’s...
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Jeffrey Snover
Jeffrey Snover is retired and spending his time as a Philosopher-Errant, attending Science & Technology conferences and giving public talks. Prior to retiring in 2026, he was a Distinguished Engineer at Google and a Technical Fellow at Microsoft where he was an AI Architect in Office, the Chief...
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Steve Smith
Ardalis (Steve Smith) is an entrepreneur and software developer with a passion for building quality software as effectively as possible. Ardalis has published DOZENS of courses on Pluralsight and Dometrain, covering DDD, SOLID, design patterns, and software architecture. He's a Microsoft ASP.NET...
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Tim Heuer
Tim is a program manager at Microsoft, working on .NET and developer tools (formerly UI frameworks including WPF, Silverlight, UWP, and WinUI). In the past Tim worked as software developer for various healthcare and consulting companies building client and web applications. Personally Tim is an...
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Danny Thompson
Known globally as DThompsonDev, Danny Thompson is a software engineer driven by a single mission: helping developers grow. He is the founder of the Commit Your Code Conference and community, leader of the Dallas Software Developers Meetup, the largest and most active dev group in North Texas, and...
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Michael Stahnke
Michael Stahnke is a seasoned technology leader and open-source advocate, currently serving as the VP of Engineering Flox. With experience in leading operations and engineering departments, Michael has played a pivotal role in shaping DevOps practices and automation in software development. Prior...
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Keith Townsend
Keith Townsend is an independent CTO advisor and infrastructure practitioner focused on how enterprises actually adopt AI, cloud, and open-source platforms at scale. He’s the founder of The Advisor Bench and the voice behind The CTO Advisor, where he helps CIOs and CTOs navigate hard…
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Jan De Dobbeleer
Jan combines the precision of his background in luxury watchmaking with deep experience in platform engineering and open source. As a GitHub Star and Microsoft MVP, he has demonstrated impact in the community and with companies worldwide. He led teams of dozens of engineers at NIKE EMEA, built…
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Kat Cosgrove Returns
Kat is the Head of Developer Advocacy at Minimus, focused on the growth and nurturing of open source through authentic contribution. In particular, her specialties are approachable 101-level content and deep dives on the history of technology, with a focus on DevOps and cloud native. She was the...
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Sarah Young
Once described on Reddit as “technically challenged”, Sarah is a Principal Security Advocate working at Microsoft. She has lived all over the place but currently calls Melbourne home. Sarah has been working in cyber security since before it was cool, has previously spoken at many security...
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Jeff Williams
Jeff Williams is the Co-Founder and CTO of Contrast Security, where he leads innovation in runtime-based application security. A pioneer in modern AppSec and co-founder of OWASP, Jeff has spent more than two decades helping organizations understand and manage software risk through…
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Sydnee Mayers
Sydnee leads AI product initiatives at Cribl, the data engine for IT & Security. Prior to joining Cribl, Sydnee was leading hyperscale inference within the CoreAI group at Microsoft. Sydnee is passionate about helping individuals learn and adopt AI safely and responsibly.You can find Sydnee on…
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Adriana Villela
Adriana is a CNCF Ambassador, blogger, host of the Geeking Out Podcast, and a maintainer of the OpenTelemetry End User SIG. By day, she's a Principal Developer Advocate at Dynatrace, focusing on Observability and OpenTelemetry. By night, she climbs walls. She also loves capybaras, because they…
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Phil Nash
Phil Nash is a developer relations engineer for Langflow at IBM. Sometimes he writes code on stage in front of a crowd, hoping everything just works. Sometimes he writes open source code, which is much less stressful because if it is wrong someone else can correct it. He writes code in tweets or...
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Mark Techson
Mark Techson, an award-winning university instructor and senior software engineer, has two decades of experience developing tech solutions. Passionate about creating meaningful learning experiences and demystifying coding, he currently works as DevRel Lead on the Angular Team at Google. You can...
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Brian Pontarelli
Brian Pontarelli is a technology entrepreneur currently solving login, registration, and user management challenges with FusionAuth. Brian started programming at the age of 8 and studied Computer Engineering at CU Boulder. During his early career, Brian worked as a software engineer at companies...
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Don Mackinnon
Don is the CTO and Co-Founder at Searchcraft, a developer-centric platform focused on re-imagining content search for applications. Don has spent nearly 30 years in software engineering, building applications for both startups and enterprise-scale companies. You can find Don on the following…
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Dan Wahlin
Dan Wahlin is a Principal Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft working with developers to leverage the capabilities available in Azure, Microsoft 365, and Power Platform. In addition to his work at Microsoft, Dan creates training courses for Pluralsight, speaks at conferences and meetups around...
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Alvin Ashcraft
Alvin is a technical writer and software developer specializing in Microsoft technologies, specifically .NET, C#, and XAML. He has over 30 years of experience developing applications for Windows, mobile, and the web. He has authored two books for Packt Publishing and is a full-time content...
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Noelle Russell
Noelle Russell is a multi-award-winning speaker, author, and AI Executive who specializes in transforming businesses through strategic AI adoption. She is a revenue growth + cost optimization expert, 4x Microsoft Responsible AI MVP, and named the #1 Agentic AI Leader in 2025. She has led teams at...
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Patrik Svensson
Patrik is a programmer from Sweden with over 20 years of experience, starting his journey at the age of 7 on an ABC-800 and later exploring platforms like the Commodore 64, Amiga, and PC. He has been active in the open source community since 2010 and is the creator of tools such as Cake and...
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Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Kohsuke Kawaguchi is a prominent software engineer, best known as the creator of Jenkins, an open-source automation server that is widely used for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). He is currently the Co-Head of AI at leading DevOps provider, CloudBees and the former Co-CEO…
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Spriha Tucker
Spriha Tucker is the Field CTO at Buildkite, where she plays a pivotal role in bridging the gap between Buildkite's engineering teams and its clients. A two-time Y-Combinator founder, Spriha previously co-founded Aviator, a developer productivity platform, which served customers like Slack…
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Shawn Wildermuth
Shawn Wildermuth has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a Vic-20 back in the early '80s. He has been a Microsoft MVP since 2003. You may have taken one of his more than twenty-five courses on Pluralsight. He's authored eight books and innumerable articles on software...
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Chris Woody Woodruff
Chris Woodruff has been at the forefront of software development since before the first.COM boom, building a career that spans enterprise web development, cloud solutions, software analytics, and developer relations. As an Architect at Real Time Technologies, he applies his deep technical…
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Maddy Montaquila
Maddy Montaquila (formerly Leger) is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft and the product lead for Aspire. She’s been building dev tools at Microsoft since 2018, working across the .NET mobile stack and helping bring .NET MAUI to life. Maddy has been obsessed with making developers’ lives easier...
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