Coffee and Open Source

A Developer Advocate for Deepgram with over ten years of experience in advocacy, Ed Charbeneau focuses on fostering engagement with the developer community while supporting the development of innovative AI-Native applications. With a diverse technical skill set, Ed contributes to building impactful solutions using a wide range of technologies including: C#, Asp.Net, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Microsoft Extensions AI, RAG, and ML.NET technologies.
Ed leverages his role as a developer advocate to find new and innovative ways to expand the boundaries of product through customer feedback, research and hands-on development. Ed has built proof of concept frameworks, components, and SDKs that have gone on to production. These initiatives have future-proofed the Progress portfolio, empowered customers, and enabled product integration.
Ed is passionate about empowering developers to explore opportunities in full-stack development, AI, machine learning, and prompt engineering. Ed facilitates discussions on emerging technology trends, fostering collaboration and knowledge-sharing within the tech community.
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Based near Seattle, Brady Gaster aspires to make it easy for .NET developers to party in the cloud as the product manager behind Visual Studio’s Azure right-click publish and Connected Services features. He also helps with Aspire tooling support in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. When not designing new tooling features or building demos with teammates, he’s trail running 5Ks, parenting two teens, mixing new 174 BPM drum’n’bass sets, or producing his own electronic music.You can find Brady on the following sites:
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Kevin W. Griffin is an independent software consultant and 16-time Microsoft MVP specializing in ASP.NET Core, Microsoft Azure cloud architecture, SignalR real-time applications, and .NET modernization.
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Michael Washington is an ASP.NET and C# programmer with experience in process improvement, billing systems, and student information systems. He is the founder of AiHelpWebsite.com and BlazorHelpWebsite.com.You can find Michael on the following sites:
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Jimmy Bogard is a software architect and consultant who created the OSS libraries AutoMapper, MediatR, and Respawn. He helps teams build systems faster, better, and more maintainable.
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