Coffee and Open Source

Ty is a Senior Staff Engineer at Uber where he leads the Android platform and is the chairman of Uber's Open-Source Technical Steering Committee. He has a passion for tools, frameworks, and open-source to help developers make great mobile apps. He is a Google Developer Expert for Android and Kotlin, engaging regularly with the community through conferences, open-source, and writing, as well as an organizer for conferences and meetups. He is an angel investor and tech advisor, as well as a member in multiple venture capital advisory syndicates. Ty has been at Uber for 6 years and prior to that he worked at Twitter on the Fabric developer tools, Evernote, and a variety of smaller startups and consulting firms.   You can follow Ty on Social Media  https://twitter.com/tsmith  PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST   - Spotify: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-spotify - Apple Podcasts: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-apple - Google Podcasts: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-google - RSS: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-rss  You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com/​​  Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin (https://twitter.com/isaacrlevin)

Demetris Cheatham is the Senior Director of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at GitHub. She is responsible for leading the company’s long-term strategy across four pillars: People, Platform, Policy, and Philanthropy. Her work includes aligning diversity, inclusion and belonging to the company’s global expansion, growth and business strategy, and plan for the future footprint of its workforce.  Prior to joining GitHub, Demetris was the Global Diversity and Inclusion Lead for Red Hat where she was responsible for implementing the diversity and inclusion strategy for the company and its 15,000+ employees located around the world. Demetris also previously served as the Chief of Staff to the Chair Pro Tempore (Vice Chair) of the Council of the District of Columbia and the Committee on Business and Economic Development which had oversight of government agencies with a collective budget of over $2.6B.  Demetris started her career as a Technology Analyst at Goldman Sachs in New York and was later selected as the first woman and youngest Executive Director to lead the National Bar Association, the nation’s oldest and largest international network of over 65,000 predominantly African-American attorneys and judges.  Demetris is a lecturer at North Carolina State University’s Poole College of Management where she teaches Introduction to Entrepreneurship. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee at Ravenscroft School and Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee.  Demetris was recognized as a National Business Journal Influencers: Rising Star, received the 2019 Triangle Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 Leadership Award and was awarded the Mayor’s Award for Commitment to Community. She was previously named to the Power 100 List for Black Lawyers in America.  Demetris earned a B.S. in Computer Science with honors from North Carolina A&T State University and a JD/MBA from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and the University of Maryland Robert F. Smith School of Business, respectively. She is a licensed attorney in the State of Maryland and a certified Executive Coach. Demetris lives in North Carolina with her husband, Cornelius, and daughter Zahra Joy.  You can follow Demetris on Social Media  https://twitter.com/dwcheatham  https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwcheatham/ https://allinopensource.org/ PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST  - Spotify: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-spotify  - Apple Podcasts: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-apple  - Google Podcasts: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-google  - RSS: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-rss  You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com/ Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin (https://twitter.com/isaacrlevin)

Cecil Phillip is a father, swimmer, podcaster, music lover, and a recently certified scuba diver. He also has over a decade of experience in the software development where he’s worked in various industries such as finance, education, HR, and healthcare. Today he's a Developer Advocate at Stripe focusing on guiding .NET developers on how to securely add payment processing to their applications.   You can follow Cecil on Social Media  https://twitter.com/cecilphillip  PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST   Spotify: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-spotify Apple Podcasts: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-apple Google Podcasts: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-google RSS: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-rss  You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com/​​ Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin (https://twitter.com/isaacrlevin)

James is a JavaScript Developer, Speaker, and Teacher with a passion for teaching developers through content. He is a Staff Developer Advocate at PlanetScale with years of experience in Content Creation, Advocacy, and Software Development. In his spare time, he runs a YouTube channel, plays co-ed soccer with his wife, spends time with his dogs, and can solve a Rubik's cube in under a minute. You can follow James on Social Media https://twitter.com/jamesqquick https://www.jamesqquick.com/ PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ddVKXbZGtMz3y66D9QD0e - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coffee-and-open-source/id1589875016 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy82Mzk4MmY3MC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw - RSS: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-rss You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com/​​ Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin (https://twitter.com/isaacrlevin)

Clark is a community builder, living somewhere along the IL/WI border. He is married to his best friend, amazing wife, business partner, and they share the joys of raising two kids.   He is a historically trained software developer, architect, product manager, and has managed to fool companies such as Allstate, Microsoft, Telerik to let this crazy passionate, entrepreneurial, see no boundaries of a person work for them. He and his wife have founded two companies THAT Conference and Unspecified.   He fell backward into software development because computers help people scale. It's his love for people, his love for helping one another, that's led him to a life of building products that build communities. It's his mission to create software that connects people in a more profound and meaningful way.   Today, THAT Conference is one of the largest Family Friendly Technology Conferences. During the pandemic, they created a SAAS platform to connect geeks across the globe. Unspecified is their boutique software development company. They take their extensive enterprise application skills and help small businesses build software to better their business.   Regardless of titles, he will always call himself a practitioner.   You can follow Clark on Social Media  https://twitter.com/csell5  https://unspecified.io/  https://that.us/  PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST   - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ddVKXbZGtMz3y66D9QD0e - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coffee-and-open-source/id1589875016 - Google Podcasts: hhttps://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy82Mzk4MmY3MC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw - RSS: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-rss  You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com/​​.   Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin (https://twitter.com/isaacrlevin).

Morgan is a Developer Relations Program Manager at Microsoft focusing on Student Advocacy.    Here is more about Morgan in her own words   I feel in love with STEM in 5th grade during my 3 hour tenure commanding the starship Voyager. From there my passion for science, exploration, experimentation, gamification, STEM education, space, and computers grew and grew. It started with me saving my babysitting money to buy Star Trek Voyager and then Battlestar Galactica and later turned into me saving my food/retail job money to buy a Raspberry Pi and my first Dell Inspiron laptop. Truth is, I never intended to work in tech, much less at Microsoft. I never thought I was smart enough or technical enough. Truth is, a lot of days I still feel that way. But the other truth is, I love what I do. I’m a proud geek. And that is that.   You can follow Morgan on Social Media  https://twitter.com/livelovegeek  https://hellomorgan.dev/     PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST   - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ddVKXbZGtMz3y66D9QD0e  - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coffee-and-open-source/id1589875016  - Google Podcasts: hhttps://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy82Mzk4MmY3MC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw  - RSS: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-rss   You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com/​​.   Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin (https://twitter.com/isaacrlevin).

Kelsey Hightower is a Principal Engineer at Google working on Google’s Cloud Platform. He has helped develop and refine many Google Cloud Products including Google’s Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Functions, and Apigees’s API Gateway. Kelsey spends most of his time with executives and developers spanning the global fortune 1000 helping them understand and leverage Google technologies and platforms to grow their businesses.   Kelsey is also a huge open source contributor and currently maintains multiple projects that aid software developers and operations professionals in building and shipping cloud native applications. He is also an accomplished author and keynote speaker with a knack for demystifying complex topics and enabling others to succeed.   Kelsey is also known for his work in the community and was the inaugural winner of the CNCF Top Ambassador award for his work in helping bootstrap the Kubernetes community. He is also a mentor and technical advisor helping founders turn their visions into reality. You can follow Kelsey on Social Media  https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower    PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST   - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ddVKXbZGtMz3y66D9QD0e - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coffee-and-open-source/id1589875016 - Google Podcasts: hhttps://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy82Mzk4MmY3MC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw - RSS: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-rss  You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com/​​.   Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin (https://twitter.com/isaacrlevin).

Brian is a developer who has been building and architecting software for all different types of purposes and applications. His initial focus was on ASP.NET, C#/.NET, SQL and WPF, but he has since shifted to technologies such as Swift, Ionic, Angular and Node.js (basically JavaScript). Brian is an author of several courses on Pluralsight and co-authored the Angular Security Guide documentation. He has presented many talks at public and private conferences as well as at local code camps covering topics such as secure application development practices and getting started in Open Source Software. You can best get in touch with him on Twitter, GitHub or at clarkio.com.   Brian also hosts regular live code stream sessions on Twitch. There you’ll find him working on the various GitHub projects you see below. He also shares how he prepares for upcoming talks, tips and tricks on the latest features found in VS Code and views behind the scenes of conferences as an attendee.   You can follow Brian on Social Media  https://linktr.ee/_clarkio    PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST   - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ddVKXbZGtMz3y66D9QD0e - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coffee-and-open-source/id1589875016 - Google Podcasts: hhttps://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy82Mzk4MmY3MC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw - RSS: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-rss  You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com/​​.   Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin (https://twitter.com/isaacrlevin).

Elahn's bio in her words   My journey as a self-taught developer started August 9, 2020. Since then, I am grateful to say that I've gained an awesome community of developer friends around the globe! I have also started my own book club called .NET Book Study, as well as my own YouTube channel 'Elahn Danee Codes'.   My mission is to 1. Continue learning how to code as a self self-taught C# developer; 2. Create content that teaches and encourages .NET newcomers; and 3. Cultivate an online community, in which .NET newcomers feel supported and empowered.    You can follow Elahn on Social Media  https://twitter.com/CodeThLightning  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZpg20byiIpKa1cJc1hEpTg   PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST   - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ddVKXbZGtMz3y66D9QD0e - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coffee-and-open-source/id1589875016 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy82Mzk4MmY3MC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw - RSS: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-rss  You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com/​​.   Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin (https://twitter.com/isaacrlevin).

Christos Matskas is a Program Manager at Microsoft focusing on Security and Identity, focusing specifically on the developer experience for Azure Active Directory. He has been a developer for over 15 years focusing on Microsoft technology. He is passionate about engaging with development communities and can be found on Twitter, GitHub, and Twitch talking about all sorts of tech topics.    You can follow Christos on Social Media  https://twitter.com/ChristosMatskas  https://github.com/ChristosMatskas    PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST   - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ddVKXbZGtMz3y66D9QD0e  - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coffee-and-open-source/id1589875016  - Google Podcasts: hhttps://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy82Mzk4MmY3MC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw  - RSS: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-rss   You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com/ .   Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin (https://twitter.com/isaacrlevin).