I am a keynote speaker, author of Raising Young Coders by Apress, podcast host, children's workshop instructor, and a computer science student.
Belmont, CA
Based in United States
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The AI Engineer Kids Day event was featured in the @aiDotEngineer World's Fair newspaper! 📰 The kids were possibly more proficient with AI than us. ✨🧑💻
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Dad brought home the @aiDotEngineer Speaker Dinner gift. ChatGPT was great at making Godot games for AI Engineer Kids Day, so I used it on the puzzle.
GPT-5.5 thought 6m18s: “2x3 rectangle.”
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Mom stared 1 min: “make a cube.”
Use AI for coding, not thinking 🤣
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Amazing AI Engineer Kids Day! 🚀
Kids learned Machine Learning, Claude Code & Codex, then built games like corn mazes 🌽 and banana simulators 🍌 in just a few hours.
So inspiring to see their creativity unlocked with AI. 🧑💻🌈
Thanks @aiDotEngineer, @Neo4j & @catsandtech! 🙌
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Great to be back at #JJUGCCC ☕🇯🇵
@steveonjava and I spoke about AI First Programming and rethinking CS education through our AI First book series with @Apress.
📊 I also shared US data on CS grads struggling after ChatGPT, while Japan’s hiring picture seems very different.
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I peeked in on Daniel Oh's talk and the room was packed full beyond belief! This might be a result of mentioning him as a great speaker in the keynote yesterday. 😂
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Keynoted at #GIDS India with @steveonjava amazing, engaged dev community 🇮🇳. Great feedback on our AI-first “prompt, learn, grow” approach. Thanks @MichaelCarducci for the fantastic photos!
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Honored to give the closing keynote at #Jfokus 🎪✨ Talked about AI-First Learning, using AI as a tool to learn. Shared the stage with @brjavaman 🦜, thanked my inspirations (@Logico_jp, @JMHReif, @cayhorstmann, @mariofusco ☕️📕), and co-spoke with my dad @steveonjava
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My @Devoxx interviews with @Stephan007 who talked about his conference AI transcription and the @Devoxx4Kids organizers including @danieldeluca who has been running it from the beginning and @EddyVos_EVCS and @KoTurk77 from the Netherlands chapter. 👧💻🚀
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From a quiet kid teaching workshops to standing on a huge tech stage 🎤✨, this is my journey, driven by curiosity, courage, and a love for helping kids discover the joy of technology. 👧💻🦒
Check out the full cinematic short on YouTube 👉
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It was great speaking at Open Source Summit Japan! At first I wasn't sure how my first lightning talk would go, but actually it had more impact than a regular session. Many people reached out to me with compliments. I hope I inspired parents to try fun technology with their kids.
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My Raising Young Coders #Devoxx Belgium keynote video got posted. I hope you like it! 🎤👾✨
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Giving the opening keynote at #Devoxx Belgium was a huge honor and the largest audience I have spoken. 🎤It was amazing to come to the conference that started @Devoxx4Kids and to stand on stage with @Stephan007 and talk about how parents can raise young coders.👾👩💻
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Just received my Java Champion jacket, now I am official! Mochi approves of it as well 🐱
Thank you @Oracle for sending me this.
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We had a blast at JCrete4Kids yesterday. I taught the Phippy's AI Friend🦒🤖workshop- kids loved coloring and training AI. Also a Scratch😺 workshop by Robin.
🙌Thank you John Kostaras for translating, the volunteers, and @heinzkabutz for running JCrete & supporting JCrete4Kids
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I was thrilled to have the opportunity to speak at @WeAreDevs Berlin 🇩🇪 last week. I was suprised how many eager developers came to learn about how they can introduce technology to their kids! I also had a book signing for my Raising Young Coders book.
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All ready for my book signing for Raising Young Coders at @WeAreDevs Berlin! 🖊️🤖 I will also be giving a session to inspire parents to introduce their kids to tech in a fun way.
@Apress @StickerApp
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It was my first time speaking at #JJUGCCC. The Japanese translated version of my Phippy's AI Friend book was popular (thanks @Logico_jp 🥰). I loved the Duke Ninjas for branding and attendee T-Shirt. 🥷 Phippy's AI Friend Japanese version: amazon.co.jp/dp/1963994035/
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Just sat down with Ivan Zupancic 🎙️ to chat about his unique tech journey, family influences, and how events like #KubeCon & DevOps Days Ljubljana (which he organizes) can be life-changing—personally and professionally. 🚀
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💡 Can early tech exposure help close the gender gap in STEM?
I spoke with Tom Manville of @Veeam about how starting young, especially for girls, can spark lasting change in tech.
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I spoke with CNCF Ambassador William Rizzo about teaching kids to code through play, curiosity, and open source. 🐍💡 From Python with his daughter to workshops aspirations in NL, it’s a thoughtful look at how we make tech education more fun. 🎙️
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Think open source is just for coders? 💻 Think again.
I spoke with @TweetFromHilary of the @linuxfoundation about how non-coders drive innovation in open source, from film to phone, and why your GitHub might matter more than your résumé. 🎥👇
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Had the honor of speaking with ✨Nyah Macklin, Sr. Dev Advocate at @neo4j , about their path from Afro-Am Studies to tech via @resilientcoders . 🌱💻
We talk AI ethics, non-binary inclusion, bootcamps & more. 🏳️🌈🎥👇
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I interviewed Kat Cosgrove at KubeCon!💬 From building PCs to cosplay to Kubernetes, her story shows how geeky hobbies can lead to a thriving tech career.👩💻🎮🚀 If you love open source, gaming, or DIY tech, this one’s for you.👾💻
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🎙️ I interviewed Melissa McKay at KubeCon. She shares what it’s been like supporting her two kids on completely different paths, one diving into tech through CNCF Kids Day and Roblox workshops, the other exploring passions outside of coding.
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🎙️ I am announcing a new video series I am doing to support my Raising Young Coders book. @sandeepkanabar is the co-chair of the CNCF Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group.
"Always face the Deaf person, not the interpreter, when speaking."
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#KubeCon
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So excited my @Apress Raising Young Coders book has reached #6 in Computer Graphics on Amazon! ✨
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I am thrilled to receive a copy of my @Apress book, Raising Young Coders, in the mail today. I was also pleasantly surprised to see that the pages were all in color. This will make it a lot easier for parents and kids to follow the steps and block coding sections! 💻💃📕🐍😺
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I finished my interviews at #KubeCon and had some tasty gluten free dumplings at @UglyDumplingUK. As you can see, @golang Gopher also loves the dumplings!
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I had an amazing signing for my book, Phippy's AI Friend, at @JavaOne today. There were a lot of people who came from across the globe (Japan 🇯🇵, Taiwan 🇹🇼, Netherlands 🇳🇱) and were excited to share the book with their kids at home! 🦒☕☸️
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I interviewed @evanyou who is the creator behind Vue.js. He shares his experiences building his application up as an individual, and the challenges today with balancing coding and community management on a large open source project.
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I had an exciting interview with @GantLaborde at Vueconf. He shares his experiences from being a developer, to leading developers and the importance of creativity and rest.
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Was happy to see Mihir Gupta at @CloudNativeFdn Kids Day🦒before Kubecon. We did a friendly book exchange where I was holding his new book Phippy's Sonic Band 🎶 , and he had Phippy's AI Friend ✨ . It is really great to have other young aspiring authors in the CNCF community!
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I had a great interview today with @melissajmckay at the @TechstrongTV booth at Kubecon. We talked about how she gained some of her early passions for technology, and how she got to where she is today.
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I am writing a new book for Apress called Raising Young Coders. 📖 @shelajev has helped me test the paper circuits project I designed by teaching a classroom of kids, and it is now kid approved! 🚨😺
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I had great interviews at @DevoxxMA highlighting young developers. I even got to interview @badrelhouari who runs this great event!
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I gave a keynote at @DevoxxMA. Many of the attendees had kids and enjoyed the presentation. I could tell they cared about the topic, because they took a lot of photos of my project idea slides.
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I visited Zadar, Croatia this week for the Infobip Shift conference. I interviewed many speakers in the expo hall which all had fun stories. It was my first time at the Shift conference and the organizers put amazing show and shared their passion for ducks and their quacks🦆🦆🦆
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I interviewed Jordan Powell at Vueconf and he shares his experience being a developer engineer. He has a passion for mentorship and enjoys solving complex problems.
Watch the interview here 🔌 🎙
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I interviewed @danielcroe at Vueconf. He is the lead core contributor of the Nuxt open source framework and shares his experiences and passions writing code for it.
Watch the interview here! 🔌 🎙
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I interviewed @willmarple at Vueconf in New Orleans. He is a seasoned engineer and shares his invaluable advice on how to make personal connections with people in the industry, and how important that is.
Watch the interview here 🔌 🎙
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I interviewed @sreedhargade at @developersummit. He highlight the impact of transformative AI on various industries, and also talks about the importance of implementing guard rails to ensure AI is ethical to use.
Watch the video here! 🔌🎙
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I interviewed @eMalaGupta who spoke at @developersummit. She talks about her early fascination with coding and emphasizes the importance of carving ones own path.
Watch the interview here! 🔌🎙
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I interviewed @venkat_s at @developersummit. He is a speaker, teacher, book author, and more. Venkat has a very unique approach to how he teaches programming: He tells his students they can code their assignments in any programming language they want!
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I interviewed Charles Adaikkalam at @developersummit. He talks about the need for privacy-focused applications to help protect user data.
Watch the video here 🔌 🎙
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I am happy to announce the release of the Phippy's AI Friend Japanese translation.🦒🇯🇵 I want to thank @Logico_jp for translating and adding furigana and @jishiha for coding the Scratch workshop plugin which works in native Japanese.
The book on Amazon:
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I interviewed @scottdavis99 who gave an amazing keynote @developersummit about accessibility. He makes fun points about how how an application with audio not only helps the vision impaired, but lets you cook dinner hands free.
Here is the interview!🔌🎙
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I interviewed @BhatiaRhythm at @developersummit. I thought it was very inspiring how she grew up in a small town in India and is now a leader in educational technology and artificial intelligence.
Here is the video! 🔌 🎙
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I interviewed @kito99 at @developersummit who has a very diverse skill set being a developer, consultant, and author. I found his stories about his early days with Java and Delphi very fun as well.
Watch the video here! 🔌 🎙
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