Heather Downing
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- NDC Oslo7 editions2017–2025
- NDC London5 editions2018–2026
- Build Stuff5 editions2017–2024
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- Fabien Ruffin4 talks
- Mahesh Chand13 talks
- Layla Porter35 talks
- Glenn F. Henriksen18 talks
- Adam Stephensen12 talks
- Chris Ward18 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| AI Agents That Remember, Share, and Cost Less with Meko | Introducing Meko | Distributed SQL Summit Mumbai 2026 | 2026-06-17 |
Meko is an agent-native persistence layer built on Yugabyte and Weaviate that stores data packs containing distilled one-sentence memories, static knowledge… | ||
| Distributed Databases: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | NDC Sydney 2026 | 2026-04-22 |
Distributed databases fail because of concrete tradeoffs and physics not platitudes: a DNS glitch inside DynamoDB on Oct 20, 2025 makes Dynamo unreachable for… | ||
| AI Agents Need Permission Slips | NDC London 2026 | 2026-01-26 |
A concrete blueprint for safe agents: an agent at Replet in July 2025 executes a drop database and wipes ~1,190 customer accounts, prompting mandates for… | ||
| Back to the Future of Time Series Data | NDC Oslo 2025 | 2025-05-19 |
Live demo uses InfluxDB + .NET + Grafana with line protocol, nanosecond timestamps and batch writes (20 points per cycle, 5s loop) to show writing… | ||
| Back to the Future of Time Series Data | NDC Melbourne 2025 | 2025-04-29 |
Hands-on demo using .NET, InfluxDB and Grafana shows how line protocol and batch writing deliver millisecond-scale ingestion; the generator emits 20 points… | ||
| Mobile App Architecture: How to Conquer the Giant! | NDC London 2025 | 2025-01-27 |
Compares concrete stacks and results: Swift/Xcode and Kotlin/Android Studio for native, Flutter, React Native, MAUI and Kotlin Multiplatform for… | ||
| Mobile App Architecture How to Conquer the Giant! | Build Stuff 2024 | 2024-11-13 |
Clear decision tree that maps four questions—budget, always-online need, offline capability, device feature access—into a stack recommendation: Swift/Xcode for… | ||
| Mobile App Architecture: How to Conquer the Giant! | NDC Porto 2024 | 2024-10-14 |
Decision tree called the Mad Tree helps pick native, crossplatform compiled, hybrid or mobile‑web by answering concrete constraints: target ages 27–47, global… | ||
| Mobile App Architecture: How to Conquer the Giant! | CPH DevFest 2024 | 2024-08-26 |
Updated decision tree maps when to pick native (Swift/Kotlin + Xcode/Android Studio), cross‑platform compiled (.NET MAUI/Xamarin, Flutter, React Native)… | ||
| Drones, RemoteID and the Thrilling Future of UAS Flight | NDC Oslo 2024 | 2024-06-10 |
RemoteID becomes a required, real‑time JSON‑style broadcast of DroneID, lat/long, altitude, speed and control‑station ID, active in the US/EU/UK (Australia… | ||
| The Visible Developer: Why You Shouldn't Blend In | Voxxed Days Ioannina 2024 | 2024-02-23 |
Claim: career visibility equals two halves — ship work and actively tell people — with concrete tactics: publish a small IoT blog post (example: went viral on… | ||
| Drones, RemoteID and the Thrilling Future of UAS Flight | NDC Sydney 2024 | 2024-02-12 |
RemoteID becomes a requirement to broadcast a drone’s identity and position so law enforcement and ATC can spot and authorize aircraft: the payload is… | ||
| Drones, RemoteID and the Thrilling Future of UAS Flight | NDC London 2024 | 2024-01-29 |
Drones move from hobby footage to infrastructure tools: agricultural UAS get approved in 2011, registries hit 1 million in 2017, and RemoteID broadcasts… | ||
| The Visible Developer Why You Shouldn't Blend In | DevConf 2023 | 2023-11-08 |
Claim: visibility habits beyond code accelerate raises and promotions. Concrete tactics: keep a searchable LinkedIn profile, publish a focused blog and… | ||
| Imposter Syndrome: Overcoming Self-Doubt in Success | NDC Porto 2023 | 2023-10-16 |
Claims that 70% of people in tech feel impostor moments at some point, cites a 1978 Georgia State study of high-achieving women, and links impostor thoughts to… | ||
| Drones, RemoteID and the Future of UAS Flight | Copenhagen Developers Festival 2023 | 2023-08-28 |
Remote ID becomes a mandatory “digital license plate” for drones in the US on September 16, 2023 and in the EU by early 2024, forcing new drones to transmit an… | ||
| Imposter Syndrome: Overcoming Self-Doubt in Success | NDC Oslo 2023 | 2023-05-22 |
Evidence review and interviews show imposter syndrome is a chronic, measurable pattern not mere humility: about 70% experience it at some point, early studies… | ||
| Defensive Coding Bootcamp | Build Stuff 2022 | 2022-11-09 |
Shows the Codecov supply-chain breach where a tampered Docker image exfiltrated CI env vars, warns that kubernetes secrets are base64 and not encrypted… | ||
| The Care and Feeding of Software Engineers | Heapcon 2022 | 2022-11-03 |
After promotion from IC to lead the core claim is: leadership is a muscle that you build by listening, delegating, and protecting your team. A poll of ~5,000… | ||
| Defensive Coding Bootcamp | NDC Oslo 2022 | 2022-09-26 |
Do you build things that can be hacked? Want to lower those odds? Join us to learn the basics of security vulnerabilities and evasive coding maneuvers that can… | ||
| Defensive Coding Bootcamp | NDC Melbourne 2022 | 2022-06-20 |
Advocates using vetted auth providers (Okta/Authera) instead of homegrown login code, rotating CI and API keys immediately, and adding end‑to‑end tests that… | ||
| The Care and Feeding of Software Engineers | NDC Porto 2022 | 2022-04-25 |
A clear playbook for new managers who used to code: create psychological safety so engineers feel safe to fail, run regular one‑on‑ones, and enforce knowledge… | ||
| The Care and Feeding of Software Engineers | Build Stuff 2021 | 2021-11-17 |
Companies promote excellent coders into managers with no training and lose people as a result; concrete fixes include asking teams what they want, making the… | ||
| Real World Guide to Web API authentication on Azure | NDC London 2020 | 2020-01-27 |
Creates a .NET Web API, pushes it to a new GitHub repo, and deploys to Azure App Service using Kudu continuous deployment so pushes auto-redeploy; secures… | ||
| The Care and Feeding of Software Engineers | AntarctiConf 2020 | 2020-01-05 |
Managers promoted from coder to leader confront concrete practices: run weekly one-on-ones, delegate real ownership, and schedule stand-ups that ask juniors… | ||
| Demystifying User Management for Voice Apps | Build Stuff 2019 | 2019-11-13 |
Explains how to link Amazon and Google Assistant users to an existing database using OAuth/OpenID Connect and a hosted identity provider (Octa), showing a… | ||
| The Visible Developer- Why You Shouldn't Blend In | NDC Oslo 2019 | 2019-06-17 |
Explains a concrete formula: write blogs and put code on GitHub, record YouTube tutorials, and externalize your work so hiring teams can skip a whiteboard and… | ||
| Real World Guide to Web API authentication on Azure | NDC Copenhagen 2019 | 2019-03-27 |
Builds a full .NET Framework Web API, publishes from Visual Studio to Azure App Service, and wires GitHub CI using Kudu CI fails with .NET Standard libs so… | ||
| Google vs Alexa: Battle of the Bots | Jfokus 2019 | 2019-02-04 |
Argues for one centralized backend that services both ecosystems and shows runnable code using a REST JSON endpoint, AWS Lambda or regular webhooks, plus… | ||
| Google vs Alexa: Battle of the Bots | DevConf 2018 | 2018-09-26 |
Claim: centralize app logic once and deploy to Alexa and Google Assistant, reducing duplication. Shows code using Alexa Skills Kit, Dialogflow (API.AI), AWS… | ||
| The Hello World Show LIVE | DevConf 2018 | 2018-09-26 |
Live studio panel runs four lightning demos with audience Q&A via questions HW show, combining practical models and concrete examples. One segment explains the… | ||
| Android TDD with Kotlin | NDC Sydney 2018 | 2018-09-17 |
Case study of an Android app delivered to Google Play that uses Kotlin for test driven development, claiming a reliable workflow that adds features via a… | ||
| The Visible Developer: Why You Shouldn't Blend In | NDC Sydney 2018 | 2018-09-17 |
Presents a practical formula of habits that make engineers visible: study managers’ goals, pick companies that match strengths, stretch into uncomfortable… | ||
| Google Assistant VS Alexa: Battle of the Bots | NDC Oslo 2018 | 2018-06-11 |
Code-first walk through of building one backend that serves both Alexa and Google Assistant, with concrete examples using Actions on Google and Dialogflow… | ||
| The Hello World Show | NDC Oslo 2018 | 2018-06-11 |
Live on stage a panel collapses hype into nuts and bolts: AI is an engineering problem that spends 80–90% of time cleaning data, produces deployable artifacts… | ||
| The Hello World Show LIVE | NDC Minnesota 2018 | 2018-05-07 |
A live panel delivers five concrete demos: a failed attempt to precompile .NET Core to native binaries, a plea to measure user happiness because slow UX can… | ||
| Speak To Me: Voice App Conversation Practices | NDC London 2018 | 2018-01-15 |
Covers concrete voice-app practice: use platform NLP (Alexa/Lex, Google) with service-driven architecture, handle slots and session state, and add SSML for… | ||
| Smaller not taller: defeating the mobile app architecture giant | Build Stuff 2017 | 2017-11-15 |
Argues that most projects don’t need a native app and claims the 60% rule: a responsive site suffices. Compares stacks with specifics: iOS via Swift/Xcode… | ||
| Imposter Syndrome: Overcoming Self-Doubt in Success | NDC Sydney 2017 | 2017-08-14 |
Claim: imposter feelings affect a large portion of tech workers — 70% of developers report impostor feelings — and they can become self‑fulfilling. Example… | ||
| Building for Alexa with Web API | NDC Sydney 2017 | 2017-08-14 |
Demonstrates building an Alexa custom skill end-to-end using .NET and Web API hosted on Azure, including deployment, remote debugging and the portal… | ||
| Building for Alexa with Web API | NDC Oslo 2017 | 2017-06-14 |
Shows how to integrate an existing backend into Alexa by building a real skill with a .NET Web API, using a Web API hosted on Azure and a GitHub starter kit… | ||
| Imposter Syndrome: Overcoming Self-Doubt in Success | NDC Oslo 2017 | 2017-06-14 |
Impostor syndrome appears in studies dating to 1978 and affects roughly 70% of people in tech, producing an overprepare or procrastinate cycle that often… | ||
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