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The BragTalks podcast is a place to share stories, build confidence and shape your career destiny. This podcast series features speakers from all career stages. Each episode is an opportunity to learn from leaders about their experience in the form of bragging, with a focus on women. The podcast is hosted by Heather VanCura. Subscribe: https://bragtalks.com/subscribe/ Complete the contact form to be featured: https://bragtalks.com/contact/ Website: https://bragtalks.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BragTalks LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bragtalks

  1. 14-08-2024

    Episode 45: Incorporating Standards Leadership into your Career: Ed Burns

    In this episode of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BragTalks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, host Heather VanCura interviews Ed Burns about how to incorporate standards leadership into your technical career journey. Ed shares his experiences and the impact that his participation in standards has had on his career. Listen to hear about how he approached getting involved and how he developed his leadership in this area. Season 7 is about sharing the experiences of technical professionals and building on the interviews from the recently published book '⁠⁠⁠Developer Career Masterplan'⁠⁠⁠. This episode is a story that links to Chapter 14 of the book. Biography: Ed Burns is currently Principal Architect on the Java Tooling and Experiences team at Microsoft. In this role, Ed will help make Azure the best place for Enterprise Java. Ed has worked on a wide variety of client and server side web technologies since 1994, including NCSA Mosaic, Netscape 6, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plugin, Jakarta Tomcat and JavaServer Faces, and the Servlet specification. Ed has lead or co-lead the expert groups for Servlet and JavaServer Faces. Ed has published four books with McGraw-Hill: JavaServerFaces: The Complete Reference (2006), Secrets of the Rockstar Programmers: Riding the IT crest (2008) JavaServer Faces 2.0: The Complete Reference (2010) and Hudson Continuous Integration In Practice (2013). To learn more about his books or projects, you can visit his website at .

  2. 28-07-2024

    Episode 44: Participate in Standards & Open Source Projects: Patrick Chanezon

    In this episode of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BragTalks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, host Heather VanCura interviews Patrick Chanezon about participating in standards and open source projects &/or communities. Patrick shares his experiences and the impact this participation in the projects and communities has had on his career. Listen to hear about how he approached getting involved and even some of the mistakes made along the way. Season 7 is about sharing the experiences of technical professionals and building on the interviews from the recently published book '⁠⁠Developer Career Masterplan'⁠⁠. This episode is a story that links to Chapters 11 and 14 of the book..hope you enjoy our new look and Season 7 of BragTalks! Biography: Patrick Chanezon manages the Cloud Developer Advocacy team in Developer Relations at Microsoft, helping developers achieve more with AI on Microsoft Cloud. Previously, at Docker Inc., he helped to build Docker, the world’s leading software container platform, for developers and sysadmins. He helped establish open source and standards organizations such as Open Container Initiative, Cloud Native Computing Foundation or Green Software Foundation. Software developer and storyteller, he spent 8 years building platforms at Netscape & Sun, then 19 years evangelizing platforms at Google, VMware & Microsoft. His main professional interest is in building and kickstarting the network effect for these wondrous two-sided markets called Platforms. He has worked on platforms for AI, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Web, Social, Commerce, Ads, and Portals.

  3. 01-07-2024

    Episode 43: Mentorship and Community: Emily Jiang

    In this episode of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BragTalks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, host Heather VanCura interviews Emily Jiang about mentorship and communities. Emily shares her experiences with mentorship and engaging in communities. Listen to hear about how she approached mentorship and the impact it made in her career. Season 7 is about sharing the experiences of technical professionals and building on the interviews from the recently published book '⁠⁠Developer Career Masterplan'⁠⁠. This episode is a story that links to Chapter 7 of the book..hope you enjoy our new look and Season 7 of BragTalks! Bio: Emily Jiang is a Java Champion. She is Liberty Cloud Native Architect and Chief Advocate, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) in IBM, based at Hursley Lab in the UK. Emily is a MicroProfile and Jakarta EE guru and also a book author ofibm.biz/MicroProfileBook. At IBM, she leads the effort of implementing MicroProfile and Jakarta EE specifications on Open Liberty.She is passionate about MicroProfile and Jakarta EE. She regularly speaks at conferences, such as QCon, Code One, DevNexus, JAX London, Voxxed, Devoxx, EclipseCon, GeeCon, JFokus, etc.Connect with Emily on Twitter and LinkedIn.

  4. 05-03-2024

    Episode 42: Engaging in User Group Communities: Mary Grygleski

    In this episode of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BragTalks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, host Heather VanCura interviews Mary Grygleski about participating in user group communities. Mary shares her vast experiences engaging in communities and some tips for getting involved in user group communities. Listen to hear about how she approached participation and the impact it made in her career. Season 7 is about sharing the experiences of technical professionals and building on the interviews from the recently published book '⁠Developer Career Masterplan'⁠. This episode is a story that links to Chapter 8 of the book..hope you enjoy our new look and Season 7 of BragTalks! Biography: Mary is a Java Champion, and an experienced, passionate Developer Advocate.  She has serviced companies as an advocate, such as IBM and DataStax in topic areas that include, most recently, GenAI, Streaming systems, Open source, Java, Cloud, and Distributed Messaging systems..  She started as an engineer in Unix/C, then transitioned to Java around 2000 and has never looked back since then.   She is an active tech community builder outside of her day job, and currently the President of the Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG), as well as the Chicago Chapter Co-Lead for AICamp.

  5. 23-02-2024

    Episode 41: Artificial Intelligence & Continuous Learning: Eileen He

    In this episode of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BragTalks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, host Heather VanCura interviews Eileen He about continuous learning and developing new skills quickly. Eileen shares her experience learning about machine learning and artificial intelligence. Listen to hear about how she approached learning and applied it in her career. Season 7 is about sharing the experiences of technical professionals and building on the interviews from the recently published book 'Developer Career Masterplan', starting with a story that links to Chapter 1 of the book..hope you enjoy our new look and Season 7 of BragTalks! Links mentioned in this episode: StatQuest - a Statistics related YouTube Channel.   I used that to complement my learning when I was taking statistics courses. They covered some popular machine learning algorithms, in an approachable, understandable way. Recently they started to cover popular topics like GenerativeAI / transformer models.  https://www.youtube.com/@statquest 3-blue-1-brown - also really good at explaining, visualizing concepts: https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown Stanford Online machine learning courses - there are many of them.  Here are a few courses.  You can search and find more on YouTube.Andrew Ng Machine Learning: https://youtu.be/jGwO_UgTS7I?si=Xfnj1Gy-BZ31L8k1Other courses / professors:Meta learning: https://youtu.be/bkVCAk9Nsss?si=yYpzRFky7YgL3D77 Reinforcement Learning: https://youtu.be/FgzM3zpZ55o?si=n0ypiPA1byypJo1ZMachine Learning with Graphs: https://youtu.be/JAB_plj2rbA?si=pua8Aptk1Zh-jYC5 I also recommend Andrew Ng's "Machine Learning Specialization" courses on YouTube:https://youtu.be/vStJoetOxJg?si=4_mJkN2xoBJjdKIr Biography: Eileen He is a Software Development Vice President at Oracle.  She has a track record of successfully leading diverse projects spanning on-premise software, cloud infrastructure and services, and cutting-edge machine learning systems.  Eileen is a passionate advocate for women in tech.  She actively volunteers and contributes her time to empowering initiatives like Oracle Women's Leadership, anitab.org/Grace Hopper Conference, and Technovation.org.  She holds a master's degree in computer science from Indiana University, Blooming and an MBA from the Wharton School.

  6. Trailer seizoen 6

    Trailer Season 6: Personal Accomplishments

    Season 6 (episodes 36-40) is hosted by Heather VanCura. These episodes are all about achieving and sharing personal accomplishments. Hear from a range of professionals about how they accomplished their goals of becoming a leader, writing a book, completing marathons around the world or completing challenging mountain summits in Africa. Learn how this benefits your career when you complete these exciting challenges.

  7. 06-11-2023

    Episode 40: Summit Mount Kilimanjaro: Debasmita Dey

    In this episode of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BragTalks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, host Heather VanCura interviews Debasmita Dey about her summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, located in Tanzania. If you don't know it, it is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest single free-standing mountain above sea level in the world: 5,895 m (19,341 ft) above sea level and about 4,900 m (16,100 ft) above its plateau base! Deb graciously agreed to do some 'heavy duty bragging' with Heather to share her experience and how her lessons from it can be applied in our careers. Listen to hear about her amazing journey and her leadership insights. Season 6 is all about sharing stories of personal accomplishments and Deb has an inspiring story to share! Biography: Debasmita is a technology sales and strategy professional who has managed global projects of cross-functional teams and served customers across Europe, Middle East and India. She leads with empathy and believes in giving back to society and the planet through her volunteering work. Debasmita is also an ardent solo backpacker, a long-distance runner, a high-altitude trekker, and a travel blogger. Connect with her instagram account at 'deydebs' or on her blog . The name of the travel marketplace through which Deb booked the trek: Much Better Adventures Active Adventure Holidays | Much Better Adventures. The name of the Tanzanian trekking company which operated the trek: Trek2Kili, Tanzania Kilimanjaro Treks & Safari Specialist).

  8. 13-10-2023

    Episode 39: Becoming a Technical Leader: Arun Gupta

    In this episode of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BragTalks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, host Heather VanCura interviews Arun Gupta about his career journey to Vice President. Heather and Arun have been friends and colleagues for many years, and share many experiences together and separately in their technical careers. Listen to hear about their technical leadership insights. Season 6 is all about sharing stories of personal accomplishments and Arun has an inspiring story to share about his path and experiences. Bio: Arun Gupta is vice president and general manager of Open Ecosystem Initiatives at Intel Corporation. He is an open source strategist, advocate, and practitioner for over two decades. He has taken companies such as Apple, Amazon, and Sun Microsystems through systemic changes to embrace open source principles, contribute and collaborate effectively. As an elected chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Governing Board, Arun works with CNCF leadership and member companies to grow cloud native ecosystem. He also participates in the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and Linux Foundation Governing Boards. He has delivered technical talks in 45+ countries, authored multiple books, and is a Docker Captain, Java Champion, and Java User Group leader. He also founded the Devoxx4Kids chapter in the U.S. and continues to promote technology education among children

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The BragTalks podcast is a place to share stories, build confidence and shape your career destiny. This podcast series features speakers from all career stages. Each episode is an opportunity to learn from leaders about their experience in the form of bragging, with a focus on women. The podcast is hosted by Heather VanCura. Subscribe: https://bragtalks.com/subscribe/ Complete the contact form to be featured: https://bragtalks.com/contact/ Website: https://bragtalks.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BragTalks LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bragtalks

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  • Maker
    Heather VanCura
  • Jaren actief
    2022 - 2024
  • Afleveringen
    52
  • Beoordeling
    Veilig
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    © Heather VanCura
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    BragTalks