Speaking & community

Talks and giving back

For more than 20 years I have been an active contributor to the Microsoft developer communities in Atlanta and South Florida: teaching, mentoring, speaking, and helping run community-driven events. My goal is simple, to lower the barrier to building well-architected systems on the Microsoft platform.

324

Attendees, Atlanta Cloud + AI 2026

Speakers coordinated

Sessions across the day

Atlanta user groups active in

Talks

Sessions and workshops

Upcoming · Atlanta Developers Conference precon · October 16, 2026

Build an AI-Ready .NET App with an AI Pair: Clean Architecture, MCP, and Agentic Workflows

Full-day, hands-on workshop: one day, the whole SDLC with an AI pair

Attendees take one .NET 10 app from an empty solution to production with Claude Code as the pair. They plan it spec-first with CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, and portable Agent Skills, then build it with aggregates, the Result pattern, and CQRS handlers behind a decorator pipeline, test it from unit to API level, and guard it with architecture fitness tests, hooks, and sandboxing. From there they ship it through agent-written CI with branch protection and a tagged release, run it under Aspire while the agent reads live telemetry to fix a planted bug, expose it to any AI client through an in-app MCP endpoint, and score its architecture with one agent while a second tries to disprove the score. Everyone leaves with an MIT-licensed starter kit (context-file templates, hooks, deny rules, a fitness-test seed, CI and release workflows, an Aspire seed, Agent Skills, and a mini rubric with scorer and verifier agents) to adopt in their own repo.

Atlanta Cloud + AI Conference · 2026

The App You're Using Right Now

Building Atlanta Cloud + AI's own platform with Claude in the loop

A field report, not a slide deck about architecture. The conference's own app was the subject of the talk: a .NET 10 modular monolith on Azure Container Apps, modeled as one Aspire graph, built with Claude Code as a constant pair-programmer. It covered what shipped, what generalized to other projects, what it costs to run, and the places the model helped and the places it shipped subtle bugs, with a decision rule for when to let the model drive.

Atlanta Developers Conference · October 2025

Building Enterprise .NET Applications with Clean Architecture & Domain-Driven Design

55 attendees

A practical session on Clean Architecture and Domain-Driven Design on modern .NET: bounded contexts, CQRS, the Result pattern, and modular monolith design, drawn directly from the open-source framework work.

Community leadership

Organizing two Atlanta conferences

I help convene developers in person, giving the local community direct, no-cost access to expert content on the Microsoft platform.

Lead organizer

Atlanta Cloud + AI Conference 2026

May 30, 2026 · atlcloudconf.com

Led the organizing committee for a community-driven, full-day, multi-track conference focused on Microsoft cloud and AI technologies. Coordinated 53 speakers across 50 sessions for 324 registered attendees, owning speakers, sponsors, volunteers, logistics, marketing, and the attendee experience. The event ran on the MMCA conference application.

Lead organizer

Atlanta Developers Conference 2026

October 17, 2026 · www.atldevcon.com

Lead organizer for the 2026 edition of the Atlanta Developers Conference, a community-driven event covering .NET, Azure, and modern application development, applying the same playbook and the same user-group network that feeds both Atlanta conferences. The 2026 edition adds a precon workshop day on October 16.

User groups

An active participant in Atlanta's Microsoft technology user-group ecosystem, the same community network from which the conferences draw their speakers and attendees.

Atlanta .NET User Group
Azure in the ATL
Atlanta Azure Data User Group
Atlanta Microsoft Business Intelligence Users

Open source & mentorship

My MMCA framework is Apache-2.0 licensed and documented with architecture decision records, so the patterns are not just usable but teachable. I mentor developers one on one, welcome engineers at every level, and keep events and learning open to people of all backgrounds, in English and Spanish.

See the framework GitHub ↗

Topics

What I speak on

Sessions and workshops for conferences, user groups, and teams.

Clean Architecture & DDD on .NET
Modular monolith → microservices
The transactional outbox
Database-per-service
Cross-service auth with JWKS
Architecture fitness functions
.NET Aspire on Azure Container Apps
AI-assisted development with Claude Code

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