The Concurrency Podcast

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

In this episode, Mambo Bryan joins us to discuss Declarative UIs with Kotlin's Jetpack Compose and how Kotlin is making developers happier.

Find Mambo on Twitter @mambo_bryan
https://justmambo.web.app

Read More on Kotlin - https://kotlinlang.org/

Feel free to email us at concurrencypod@gmail.com

Hosts:

Jack McLeans - @jack_the_nerd

Harman Kibue - @harmannkibue

Steve Kibuika - @the_kibuika

In this episode, Michelle Mueni, a Software Developer at Safaricom talks to us about Mpesa Mini-App, what they are and how they are built.

Learn more about Safaricom's Mini Program here => https://mpesaminiapps.safaricom.co.ke/index

Find Mueni on twitter - @4mueni

Hosts:

Jack McLeans - @jack_the_nerd

Harman Kibue - @harmannkibue

Steve Kibuika - @the_kibuika

In this episode, we have a great discussion with Goluck - a doctoral research candidate working on Deep Learning models for Video compression and delivery. We talk about the academia side of tech and he narrates his personal experiences with tech research and what he is working on.

Goluck's publications - https://goluck-konuko.github.io/

Find Goluck on Twitter - @goluckk

Hosts: 

Jack McLeans - @jack_the_nerd

Harman Kibue - @harmannkibue

Steve Kibuika - @the_kibuika

We host part of the team behind the DroidConKE event ( Evans Chepsiror, Jacqui Gitau and Annie Kobia ), we discuss Tech communities - the impact they have had on their personal development and the role they play in the Android254 and KotlinKenya Communities. We also chat about the upcoming DroidConKE 2022 event (16th - 18th November 2022).  Key takeaway - "You should not miss DroidConKE 2022"

Get your ticket here - https://droidcon.co.ke/

Evans' KMM project - https://github.com/KMM-Stuff/Rick-and-Morty

Find the Guests on Twitter:
Evans Chepsiror - @_Chepsi

Jacqui Gitau - @Jacqui_Gitau

Annie Kobia - @AnnieKobia


Hosts:
Jack McLeans - @jack_the_nerd

Harman Kibue - @harmannkibue

Steve Kibuika - @the_kibuika

In this episode, we are joined by Dru (@martian_dru) a seasoned Software Engineer doing things at Microsoft ADC. We talk about the Differences in Software Engineering at Startups and Large Organizations. Key take away "Your code may never make it to production, don't catch feelings".

Dru's Twitter - @martian_dru

Dru's Blog - https://henry-onyango.medium.com/

Hosts:
Jack McLeans - @jack_the_nerd

Harman Kibue - @harmannkibue

Steve Kibuika - @the_kibuika

In this episode Harman Kibue joins us to discuss fintech and how Go is applied within the industry. We discuss concepts on Concurrency and how it differs from Multithreading, Security and Deployments.

https://github.com/harmannkibue

In this Episode Steve and Jack introduce the Concurrency podcast, talk about how they got to start a podcast, got into an in-depth discussion about JavaScript and Embedded devices and Steve concludes with his dad jokes.

As promised, reach us at : concurrencypodcast@gmail.com