Portfolio

I was renewed as a Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies

Took part in the Community Keynote at Uk Together Conf

Interviewed on Community Building by Suzanne Daniels

Edited, recorded and co-hosted an ep of Candid Contributions

Speaking at Developer Week - Virtual

Speaking at Developer Week

Took part in the live stream for the Umbraco v9 release candidate launch - invited people along to the learnathons to come and work collaboratively getting to grips with the latest release. Umbraco...

Umbraco v9 - The Learnathon Running the .NET Core Learnathon Series with Carole Logan. They were 4 sessions across May for us to get together and have a play with the latest beta .NET core release ...

I ran a session to coach the Microsoft Student Ambassadors in advance of their talks at the Global AI Conference. Designed to help them to present technical content to a technical audience and with...

Azure Snacks: Containers on Azure Hosting the last in the series of sessions with Sandra Ahlgrimm. In this session, we’ll introduce the concept of containers and how to use them. Who is it aimed at...

Azure Snacks: Azure Networking Hosting the third in the series of sessions with Cloud Advocate Sarah Lean. In this session we dive into networking in Azure. How to make your application run in your...

Azure Snacks: SQL in Azure Hosting the second in the series of the Azure Snacks sessions with Microsoft Cloud Advocate Jay Gordon. In this session we dive into Azure SQL. The family of SQL cloud da...

Azure Snacks: Azure web apps Hosting the Duug Azure Snacks session with Microsoft Cloud Advocate Christopher Maneu. In this session we dive into Azure App Service and especially into how you can bu...

https://24days.in/umbraco-cms/2020/from-wannabe-to-honorary/

Joined the Core Collaborators team - an initiative to work with other community members reviewing code, supporting contributors to imrpove the quality of their code contributions and helping to sup...

Wrote and delivered a talk to secondary school students on paths into the world of development, highlighting ways that people can enter the industry that aren't the traditional path by sharing my o...

Started the Goodreads.com Around the Year in 52 Books challenge 🤔

Taking part in a panel on mentoring junior engineers for leaddev.com

Spoke in the Keynote for Umbraco's Codegarden 2021

I hosted the Umbraco Awards at Codegarden

My first contribution to Open Source Added visual studio and link to local development section by emmaburstow · Pull Request #715 · umbraco/UmbracoDocs (github.com)

Wrote an article for LeadDev on creating environments that help new developers flourish Developing engineering talent | LeadDev

My first hackathon was for the Umbraco UK Fest in 2019

Still hosting Candid Contributions! 32 eps and counting

Launched Candid Contributions - a podcast where we talk all things open source

Was given the Umbraco MVP award Umbraco MVPs 2018 | 16 new Umbraco MVPs at CG18

Umbraco MVP award renewed 😊

I became a Microsoft MVP ☺

Hosted the Candid Contributions hackathon