All the talks

This repo will host links to all the public speaking materials I give. This list will be updated as new talks are done, so check back often!

The format of the talks I give varies. I typically like to make very wordy slides, so that they can serve as holistic reference material later. You will, however, see presentations that are much more lightweight, with commentary provided in the speaker notes section. Most talks also include links to the relevant GitHub repo, if code samples were provided.

Public talks will have presentation citations below; internally-given talks will not.

Tech Culture

• Resume-Driven Development is Awful

  • DevUp Conference. August 2023. St. Charles Convention Center, St. Charles, MO.
  • DevUp Conference. June 2022. Ameristar Casino, St. Charles, MO.

• Packer: A Swiss-Army Knife for Architectural Enablement

  • HashiCorp HashiTalks. February 2021. Virtual/Online (YouTube Live).
    • Slides
    • Video

Linux

• Dude, Who Broke My Linux Server?
  • CodeMash, January 2025. Kalahari Resort, Sandusky, OH.
  • CodeMash, January 2024. Kalahari Resort, Sandusky, OH.

Command-line / Shell

• How to Start Loving Command-Line Tools

  • Kansas City Developer Conference. August 2025. Kansas City Convention Center, Kansas City, MO.
  • DevUp Conference. August 2023. St. Charles Convention Center, St. Charles, MO.
  • DevUp Conference. June 2022. Ameristar Casino, St. Charles, MO.
  • DevUp Conference. October 2019. Ameristar Casino, St. Charles, MO.

• GNU Make Your Life Easier

  • St. Louis Linux/UNIX User Group. April 2019. Greybar Electric, St. Louis, MO.
  • Google Developers Group DevFest. January 2019. University of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.

Cloud

• Effortless CI/CD (and more!) on GCP using Cloud Build
  • Google Developers Group DevFest. September 2019. University of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.

R

• Using R to Build Data Pipelines

  • St. Louis R User Group. October 2018. CIC@CET, St. Louis, MO.

• R Packages: A Concise Reference

  • St. Louis R User Group. July 2019. CIC@CET, St. Louis, MO.

Containerization

• Wtf is Docker

Other

• Foundations of Personal Finance: Or, How Not to be a Money Dummy

• Supercharging Crop Science at Bayer Using the Google Toolbox

  • Google Cloud Next, April 2024. Mandalay Bay Conference Center, Las Vegas, NV.
    • This was supposed to be recorded, and was not :(