Code, Cloud & AI

In this episode, I sat down with Albert Tanure, a Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, to talk about what AI is really changing in day-to-day engineering work—and what still matters just as much as ever. We got into the tension between speed and fundamentals: how AI can massively accelerate coding, dashboards, documentation, and learning,…

In this episode, I sat down with Heena Refai, a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, to talk about how enterprise AI has evolved from the big-data and traditional machine learning era into today’s generative AI and agentic systems landscape. Heena reflected on her background in data engineering and machine learning, why strong data foundations…

In this episode, I sat down with Rob Bos to talk about what’s happening across GitHub, Azure DevOps, GitHub Advanced Security, and the fast-moving world of GitHub Copilot. Rob shared how his work evolved from DevOps consulting and CI/CD into GitHub-focused training, governance, supply-chain security, and Copilot enablement. We talked about why so…

In this episode, I sat down with Anton Sizikov from GitHub to talk about how AI coding tools have evolved from “smart autocomplete” into full-blown agentic workflows. We unpacked the early days of GitHub Copilot, when the biggest customer concerns were privacy, legal implications, and whether the tool could be trusted at all, and compared that with…

In this episode, I sat down with Jon Galloway to talk about what agentic development actually looks like in practice inside Microsoft and out in the real world. We explored how AI-assisted software development is changing fast, why prompt-only workflows are maturing into more disciplined engineering practices, and why the best results come from…

In this episode, I sat down with Pascal van der Heiden to talk about how fast AI-assisted development is changing the day-to-day reality of building software. We got into his current workflow across Azure, GitHub Copilot, Visual Studio Code, the terminal, MCP servers, and Microsoft Foundry, and explored why he has shifted so much of his work into a…

In this episode, I sat down with Tim Warner to talk about how generative AI is reshaping the day-to-day reality of technical work. We compared this moment to earlier platform shifts like the web, mobile, cloud, and virtualization, and dug into what feels different this time: the speed, the accessibility, and the way AI has moved from being a…

In this episode, I sat down with Mads Kristensen, a principal product manager from the Visual Studio team to unpack what a PM actually does inside a large engineering organization and how that role blends user research, roadmap planning, technical decision-making, and product experimentation. We talked about his 15+ years working on Visual Studio,…

In this episode, I sat down with Gerald Versluis from Microsoft’s .NET MAUI team for a wide-ranging conversation that started with mental health, sunlight, and fitness, and quickly moved into the future of cross-platform app development. Gerald shared what it’s like building .NET MAUI today, why creating apps for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows…

In this episode, I sat down with Brittany Ellich, Staff Engineer at GitHub, to talk about what software engineering looks like when AI is part of nearly every step of the workflow. We got into her path from a smaller medical education company to GitHub, what it means to work on enterprise billing and metered usage, and why billing systems are such…