The Concurrency Podcast Jack McLeans, Steve Kibuika and Harman Kibue
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- Технологии
A firmware engineer, a backend/DevOps engineer and a fullstack engineer wanted to have technical conversations among themselves and with others. This podcast was born.
We talk software, hardware and everything code.
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#12 | Becoming a Google Developer Expert w/ Wayne Gakuo
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 -
#11 | Generative AI: The how, the opportunities and the gloom w/ Tim Sankara
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 -
#10 | Open Source: The why and the How w/ Daniel Katungi
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 -
#09 | The thing about WebAssembly w/ Njuguna Mureithi
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 -
#08 | Positioning yourself for Software Engineering Jobs w/ Michael Gacha
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 -
#07 | The Javascript Runtime w/ Ian "McBooll" Mugenya
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