The Concurrency Podcast Jack McLeans, Steve Kibuika and Harman Kibue

In this episode, Wayne Gakuo, a Frontend Engineer and Angular GDE joins us to discuss how one can become a GDE and how the program can be of benefit. We explore community engagements and the importance to do things that provide value to our tech communities.



Explore the Google Developer Experts program - https://developers.google.com/community/experts



Find Wayne Gakuo on Twitter - https://twitter.com/wayne_gakuo




Feel free to email us at concurrencypod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @concurrencypod

Hosts:

Jack McLeans - https://twitter.com/jack_the_nerd

Harman Kibue - https://twitter.com/harmannkibue

Steve Kibuika - https://twitter.com/the_kibuika

In this episode, Tim Sankara, a Software Engineer and AI researcher joins us to discuss Generative AI models. The opportunities that exist and the anxiety it brings.



Links:

Attention is All You Need - https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

Transformers [Google Research, 2017] - https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/08/transformer-novel-neural-network.html

The Age of AI has Begun [Bill Gates] - https://www.gatesnotes.com/The-Age-of-AI-Has-Begun



Find Tim:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-k-sankara-932635141/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/tim_sankara



Feel free to email us at concurrencypod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @concurrencypod

Hosts:

Jack McLeans - https://twitter.com/jack_the_nerd

Harman Kibue - https://twitter.com/harmannkibue

Steve Kibuika - https://twitter.com/the_kibuika

In this episode, Dan Katungi, a Software Engineer and a good friend of the podcast joins us, we have a very upbeat discussion on Open Source and why you as a developer should consider contributing and maintaining some OSS projects.

Here are some of the links mentioned

Runter Project - https://github.com/katungi/Runter



Find Dan on Twitter @WarriorRapid

https://twitter.com/WarriorRapid



Feel free to email us at concurrencypod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @concurrencypod

Hosts:

Jack McLeans - https://twitter.com/jack_the_nerd

Harman Kibue - https://twitter.com/harmannkibue

Steve Kibuika - https://twitter.com/the_kibuika

In this episode, Geoff (@tweetofnjuguna), a Senior Rust Engineer joins us to discuss WebAssembly, what it is, why you should care, how to get started with it and some of its use cases.



Find Geoff:

Github - https://github.com/geofmureithi

Twitter - https://twitter.com/tweetofnjuguna



Feel free to email us at concurrencypod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @concurrencypod

Hosts:

Jack McLeans - https://twitter.com/jack_the_nerd

Harman Kibue - https://twitter.com/harmannkibue

Steve Kibuika - https://twitter.com/the_kibuika

Michael Gacha, a Technical Recruiter at Volvo Cars joins us to discuss how Software Engineers can best position themselves to get jobs. 2023 started off rough with layoffs and so this is a very important conversation.

Find Gacha:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Gashamwas
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-gacha-recruiter/

Feel free to email us at concurrencypod@gmail.com

Hosts:

Jack McLeans - https://twitter.com/jack_the_nerd

Harman Kibue - https://twitter.com/harmannkibue

Steve Kibuika - https://twitter.com/the_kibuika

In this episode, Ian, a Javascript Engineer and Mentor @SpaceYaTech and @NodeSchool Nairobi Chapter,  joins Steve to talk about Javascript, how it runs on the web and some of the components and features that make it behave the way it does. We discuss the Javascript runtime and the Javascript engine. This is a must listen for all Javascript folks!

Links:
The Evolution of Javascript - https://dev.to/ianmcbull/the-evolution-of-javascript-2bca

Find Ian on twitter - https://twitter.com/McBooll



Feel free to email us at concurrencypod@gmail.com  

Hosts:

Jack McLeans - @jack_the_nerd

Harman Kibue - @harmannkibue

Steve Kibuika - @the_kibuika