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• Tamir Dresher: Squad Agent Workflows - Episode 407 22.06.2026 40min

  https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Tamir Dresher is a Principal Engineer at Microsoft Threat Protection, where he focuses on scaling AI agent systems and distributed architectures, bringing over 15 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems. He is the co-creator of Squad, an open-source multi-agent runtime for GitHub Copilot that orchestrates AI teams directly inside your repository. Tamir is the author of "Rx.NET in Action" (Manning) and "Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with ASP.NET Core" (Packt), and has been a lecturer in Software Engineering at the Ruppin Academic Center since 2013. A prominent figure in the Israeli and international developer communities, he is a Microsoft MVP alumnus who speaks frequently at global conferences and writes actively on his blog at tamirdresher.com. Website / Blog - https://www.tamirdresher.com/  LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamirdresher/ GitHub: https - //github.com/tamirdresher Twitter/X - @tamir_dresher Blog Post - https://www.tamirdresher.com/blog/2026/05/24/squad-watch-extensions-customer-success Github - https://github.com/bradygaster/squad Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
• Erik Darling: T-SQL Architecture - Episode 406 15.06.2026 37min

  https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Erik Darling makes your database faster in exchange for money. He is a DBA, developer, and architect with a track record of tackling even the most challenging of technical issues. He runs a SQL Server Consulting and Coaching practice. In addition to his consulting services, he is also passionate about blogging, training, and contributing to open-source projects that help with SQL Server troubleshooting. He's given many public speaking engagements on the topic at conferences and events around the world, like PASS Summit and SQLBits. Website - https://erikdarling.com/ Twitter - https://x.com/erikdarlingdata Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/ErikDarlingData LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/darling-data/ LinkedIn 2 - https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-darling-data/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@darling.data BlueSky - https://bsky.app/profile/erikdarling.com Trainings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYBdghaIjc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df-l2PxUidI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uikbtpVZS2s https://db.cs.cmu.edu/seminar2022/ Previous Guest on the Azure DevOps Podcast:  Episode 315 – Erik Darling: Database Technical Debt  Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
• Chris "Woody" Woodruff: AI-Assisted Software Architecture - Episode 405 08.06.2026 48min

  https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Chris Woodruff, or as his friends call him, Woody, is a software architect of over 25 years. Woody loves software engineering, especially allowing applications and services to communicate across networks and through Web APIs. He has received Microsoft MVP awards in SQL, Data and C# in the past, along with multiple years of being awarded the AWS Community Builder Award. He's a current board member of the .NET Foundation Woody lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he explores the many breweries in West Michigan and travels with his family. Woody is also a long-time bourbon fan and loves hunting for whiskey bottles. Website - https://woodruff.dev/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chriswoodruff/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/cwoodruff Simplicity-First Website - https://simplicity-first.dev/ Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Episode 262 - Chris "Woody" Woodruff: Network Programming https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/chris-woody-woodruff-network-programming-episode-262 ---------------------------------------- Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
• J. Tower: A.I. Workflows - Episode 404 01.06.2026 36min

  https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Jonathan Tower — known to friends and colleagues simply as "J." — is the founding partner of Trailhead Technology Partners, a custom software consulting firm with employees across the U.S., Europe, and South America. A 12-time Microsoft MVP for .NET and a Telerik Developer Expert, J. brings nearly 25 years of industry experience spanning roles from senior architect to director of development. He was recently elected to the .NET Foundation Board of Directors for the 2026–2027 term and is the driving force behind Beer City Code, Western Michigan's largest professional software conference. J. is also a LinkedIn Learning course author and an active speaker at software conferences around the world; including being a speaker at the most recent .NET Conf. LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jtower/ Website - https://www.jtower.com/ Trailhead Technology Website - https://trailheadtechnology.com/ Trailhead Technology Events - https://trailheadtechnology.com/events Trailhead Technology Blogs - https://trailheadtechnology.com/blog Beer City Code- https://beercitycode.com/ Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Episode 371 - Software Leadership with Jonathan "J." Tower https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/software-leadership-with-jonathan-j-tower-episode-371 Episode 263 - J. Tower: Modernization Strangler Fig Pattern https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/j-tower-modernization-strangler-fig-pattern-episode-263 ---------------------------------------- Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
• Ryan Riley: Development Process using AI - Episode 403 25.05.2026 48min

  https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Ryan Riley is a Senior Lead Software Engineer at Quorum Software in Houston, TX, with deep expertise in functional programming, software architecture, and web API design across the .NET ecosystem. He is a Microsoft Visual F# MVP and longtime open-source contributor, best known for his work on projects such as Frank, WebApiContrib, and the Open Web Interface for .NET (OWIN) specification. Ryan leads the Community for F# virtual user group and is an active blogger, having recently published a thought-provoking piece in March 2026 examining AI-assisted spec-driven development and its relationship to Agile and historical software practices. He brings a thoughtful, systems-level perspective to software engineering leadership, mentoring, and team-building that spans front-end UX through back-end distributed applications. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanriley/ GitHub: https://github.com/panesofglass Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/panesofglass Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Ryan Riley: Leading a Software Engineering Team - Episode 316 (September 23, 2024)  The Power of 10 Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_10:_Rules_for_Developing_Safety-Critical_CodeDevelopment Process using AI Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
• Gaurav Seth: Leading in the AI World - Episode 402 18.05.2026 44min

  https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Today I've have Gaurav Seth with us — he's a product executive at Microsoft working on fundamentally redefining how software gets built and scaled. He's been bringing agentic AI into every stage of the develop‑deploy‑operate cycle, both for Microsoft's internal engineering teams and for developers building on the platform. He's hands-on building AI agents into GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio, working on evaluation systems that improve model quality, and shaping core platforms that power Azure, Microsoft 365, Windows, Xbox, and LinkedIn. Right now, he's focused on some of the hardest problems in the industry — what it looks like to move from manual to AI-driven development, how to measure and improve agent performance at scale, how to make massive codebases understandable to LLMs, and what the future of developer workflows looks like in an agent-first world. Before this, he helped lead some major shifts — from Edge's move to Chromium, to scaling TypeScript into one of the most widely used languages in the world, to evolving Visual Studio's business model and growing .NET in a crowded market. He operates end-to-end — from product strategy and engineering to go-to-market, partnerships, and enterprise adoption — and has a unique ability to connect deep technical innovation with real-world impact.  Mentioned in this Episode LinkedIn X / Twitter  .NET Blog (author page)  Foundry Local: Onyx w/ Ollama  VSCode Agent Pane  Want to Learn More?  Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
• Stephen Cleary: Asynchronous Software - Episode 401 11.05.2026 34min

  https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Stephen Cleary is a software developer, author, and independent consultant with deep expertise in asynchronous and concurrent programming in .NET. He is the author of "Concurrency in C# Cookbook" (O'Reilly, 2nd edition), the definitive practical reference on async, parallel, reactive, and multithreaded programming in C#. Stephen is one of the top-ranked users on Stack Overflow, widely recognized for his authoritative answers on async/await, and he has published extensively on the subject through MSDN Magazine, conference talks, and his long-running blog. His most recent blog post, "Debug Dumps in Visual Studio," was published in December 2025 and continues his tradition of sharing hard-won, practical knowledge with the .NET community. Website: https://stephencleary.com  Blog: https://blog.stephencleary.com Book: https://stephencleary.com/book/ GitHub: https://github.com/StephenCleary Twitter/X: https://x.com/astevecleary Github - Comparers Nuget - Nito Comparers  Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
• Tim Corey: Learning AI Architecture - Episode 400 04.05.2026 41min

  https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Tim Corey is an nine-time Microsoft MVP, a software developer with more than 30 years of experience, and one of the most recognized online educators in the .NET ecosystem. DevForge at IAmTimCorey.com -- has helped millions of developers learn to think and code like professionals. He is the author of Getting Started with C#: A Practical Guide, the creator of the popular C# Mastercourse, and the host of the DevQuestions podcast, now in its seventh season. Tim learned software development the hard way so his students don't have to -- and he is a returning guest, having joined us previously on Episode 241. Previous appearance(s) on the Azure DevOps Podcast: Episode 241: Tim Corey: Learning Programming (Apr 17, 2023)  Website: https://www.iamtimcorey.com/ Blog: https://blog.iamtimcorey.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamtimcorey/ Twitter / X: https://x.com/IAmTimCorey GitHub: https://github.com/TimCorey YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@IAmTimCorey Podcast: https://iamtimcorey.buzzsprout.com/ Recent projects / posts: - Course: Upgrading to .NET 10 From Start to Finish https://www.iamtimcorey.com/courses/upgrading-to-dotnet-10/ - Course: C# Mastercourse https://www.iamtimcorey.com/courses/csharp-mastercourse/ - Game Development Mastercourse (preorder) https://gamedevelopmentmastercourse.com/ - Blog: "Does Vibe Coding Have A Place In Software Development?" (May 2025) - Blog: "What Microsoft Choosing Go over C# Can Teach Us" (Apr 2025) - Blog: "Can AI Do a Developer's Job?" (Mar 2025) - DevQuestions Podcast Ep. 299: "Why is the job market slowing down?" (Mar 5, 2026) Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
• Chet Husk: .NET Tooling - Episode 399 27.04.2026 43min

  https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Chet Husk is a Product Manager on the .NET Tools team at Microsoft, where he leads the .NET SDK, MSBuild, Template Engine, and Install Scripts teams -- shaping how millions of .NET developers build, publish, and containerize their applications. Before joining Microsoft in 2021, Chet was deeply embedded in the F# open-source community, serving on the F# Software Foundation Board and co-maintaining Ionide, the popular F# extension for VS Code. At Microsoft, he drove the built-in container publishing support that lets developers create container images with just "dotnet publish" -- no Dockerfile required -- and recently shipped SLNX, the new XML-based solution file format for the .NET CLI. He is also exploring the intersection of AI and build tooling with an open-source MCP server that lets AI assistants analyze MSBuild binary logs. Mentioned in this Episode GitHub LinkedIn .NET Blog Recent projects / posts Blog: "Introducing support for SLNX, a new, simpler solution file format in the .NET CLI" (Mar 2025, .NET Blog)  mcp-binlog-tool: MCP server for AI-assisted MSBuild binary log analysis  Blog: "Announcing built-in container support for the .NET SDK" (.NET Blog) .NET Conf 2023 talk: ".NET Containers advancements in .NET 8"  .NET Conf 2022 Keynote presenter  SLNGEN .NET Tool /dotnet/skills GitHub repo structed nuget package - devlooped EBNF Grammar (Extended Backus–Naur Form) https://msbuildlog.com/ https://github.com/devlooped/StructId \Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
• Pierce Boggan: AI Workflows - Episode 398 20.04.2026 38min

  https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Pierce Boggan is the PM Lead for Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot at Microsoft, where he guides the product direction of the world's most popular code editor as it evolves into an AI-native development platform. He joined Microsoft through the Xamarin acquisition more than a decade ago and has worked across mobile tools, Visual Studio, and the Teams Toolkit before taking the helm of the VS Code team in late 2024. Pierce co-hosts the VS Code Insiders Podcast, presented in the GitHub Universe 2025 keynote, and recently helped his team make the historic shift from monthly to weekly releases -- powered by AI. He is also the creator of Primer, an open-source CLI that prepares codebases for AI-assisted development. -------------------------------------------- Mentioned in This Episode Website  Twitter / X  GitHub Podcast  Primer Recent projects / posts: Agent HQ in VS Code announced (Dec 2025) -- unified view for managing local, background, and cloud AI agents GitHub Universe 2025 keynote presenter (Nov 2025) VS Code Insiders Podcast: "VS Code -- 2025 Wrapped" (Dec 2025) Primer CLI -- prepares repos for AI-assisted development (423 stars) nano-banana-mcp -- MCP server enabling image creation in GitHub Copilot VS Code team moved from monthly to weekly releases (Mar 2026 interview)  ---------------------------------------- Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
• Michael Perry: AI-assisted Development - Episode 397 13.04.2026 37min

  https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Michael Perry is a Director at Improving Enterprises and a self-described "Software Mathematician" who has spent his career applying mathematical principles to software development, drawing on the foundational work of thinkers like Bertrand Meyer, James Rumbaugh, and Donald Knuth. He is the author of "The Art of Immutable Architecture" and the creator and maintainer of Jinaga, an open-source immutable runtime framework for building collaborative and distributed applications in .NET and JavaScript. A former seven-year Microsoft MVP, Michael has produced multiple Pluralsight courses covering CQRS, XAML Patterns, Cryptography, and Provable Code,and is a frequent speaker at developer conferences across the country. At Improving, he helps enterprise clients harness the power of immutable architecture and software mathematics to build scalable, robust systems. Mentioned in this Episode LinkedIn Twitter / X (@michaellperry)  GitHub  Personal Site FactoryEngineering.dev roocode - plugin for VSCode - has subagents  Windsurf (AI Tool) Want to Learn More?  Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
• Aaron Stannard: Software 2.0 using AI - Episode 396 06.04.2026 50min

  https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Aaron Stannard is the Founder and CEO of Petabridge and the co-founder and lead maintainer of Akka.NET — the most widely used actor model framework for .NET, with over 21 million NuGet downloads and adoption by Fortune 500 companies like Boeing, Bank of America, and S&P Global. A two-time startup founder, Aaron previously founded MarkedUp Analytics and worked at Microsoft as a Startup Developer Evangelist before dedicating himself full-time to building the Akka.NET ecosystem. He's a Vanderbilt University graduate, a former Microsoft MVP, and has spoken at major conferences worldwide including NDC, Techorama, QCon, and .NET Conf. Beyond Akka.NET, Aaron is known for creating NBench (a .NET performance benchmarking framework), the Sdkbin marketplace for .NET developers, and for his prolific blog and YouTube content on distributed systems, .NET internals, and software engineering philosophy. Mentioned in this Episode Episode 172 Software 2.0 Case Study LinkedIn Twitter / X - (@Aaronontheweb) GitHub Personal Blog YouTube (Personal) openclaw simon Crop - verify library SlopWatch - detect reward hacking behavior Opus 4.6 & Sonnet 4.6 Copilot OpenCode Claude Code Codex 5.3 model for debugging Qwen2.5 27B llama.cpp local. tmux - Terminal multiplexer suo apt install -y tmux Ralph LLM loop Akka.NET StirTrek, May 1 in Ohio NDC Copenhagen in June Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
• Mads Torgersen: Talking AI - Episode 395 30.03.2026 37min

  https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Mads is a Principal Architect at Microsoft, where he has been for over 20 years. He's been the Lead Designer of the C# language for a long time. Prior to this, Mads was a professor and contributed to a language starting with J. He was previously on episode 325 of the podcast where he spoke about the latest on C# at the time. Mentioned in this Episode Github Link - C# Episode 325  Learn C#  Want to Learn More?  Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
• James World - AI - Episode 394 23.03.2026 41min

  https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ James World is a technology leader with decades of hands‑on engineering experience, enabling enterprises to thrive through modern cloud and AI‑driven solutions. He has spent well over ten years architecting cloud‑native platforms on Microsoft Azure, guiding multiple development teams through complex digital transformations while remaining deeply involved in the code and critical technical decision‑making. His background spans financial services and other enterprise environments where reliability, performance, and scalability are non‑negotiable. He is a Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert and a polyglot developer, with extensive commercial experience primarily in .NET and C#, applied across distributed systems, event‑driven architectures, and modern AI integration patterns. He is currently focused on driving responsible and effective adoption of Generative AI within the enterprise—from engineering productivity and product enhancement to business‑assistive tooling. He has been involved with AI initiatives and won several AI hackathons, helping organizations move from experimentation to meaningful strategic value. He enjoys solving complex problems, mentoring engineers, and sharing practical insights on architecture, modern software development, and AI‑augmented delivery practices. He believes technologists never stop learning—and that commitment is what keeps the industry exciting. Mentioned in This Episode Context7 GitHub SpecKit OpenSpec Striker for mutation testing Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
• Daniel Ward: AI Agents - Episode 393 16.03.2026 45min

  https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Daniel Ward is a Microsoft .NET MVP and software consultant at Lean TECHniques in San Antonio, TX. He works with teams to deliver high‑quality software through modern engineering practices, including effective CI/CD, automated testing, AI adoption, and product management. His background spans multiple industries such as finance, retail, and agriculture, and he has served as a software developer, technical coach, agile coach, and tech lead. Daniel is also a conference speaker, a contributor to the .NET community, and the creator behind Dan In a Can, where he writes about .NET, testing, DevOps, and developer tooling. Outside of his professional work, he enjoys piano, guitar, swing dancing, and game development.  Mentioned in This Episode Website LinkedIn  X Account Github Lean Techniques "Kiro" AI Coding Tool  Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
• Richard Lander: DotNet Inspect - Episode 392 09.03.2026 1h 3min

  https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Richard Lander is a Principal Program Manager on the .NET team at Microsoft. He's been with Microsoft since 2000, and working on .NET since 2003! Currently, he's working on runtime features, docker container experience, blogging and customer engagement. He's also part of the design team that defines new .NET runtime capabilities and features. Mentioned in This Episode Episode 289  Episode 148  Episode 50   DotNet Skills  Suzanne Cook's Assembler Blog  SourceLink dnx dotnet-inspect Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
• Savino Carlone: ERP Systems - Episode 391 02.03.2026 34min

  https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Savino Carlone, or Savi for short, is a 25‑year backend developer from Turin, Italy with experience across enterprise and high‑performance systems in sports broadcasting, banking, and ERP platforms. Savi has been nominated in the past to be on the board of directors for the .NET Foundation. He co‑leads the Torino .NET Users Group, which has over 1,200 members. He collaborates with Codemotion, and co‑hosts the Devs Book Club, in Italian. He currently leads development on the web‑based ERP system Fattutto in Northwest Italy. Mentioned in this Episode LinkedIn X Account Board Elections Page Book - Real-World Web Development with .NET 10 - Mark J. Price Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
• Paul Duvall: AI-Driven Development - Episode 390 23.02.2026 41min

  https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Paul Duvall is an award‑winning author, longtime DevOps leader, and former AWS executive with more than two decades of experience in software engineering. He co‑founded Stelligent, establishing a business dedicated to enabling enterprise customers adopt DevOps and Security practices on AWS. He is the author of the book at defined CI for the world: Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk. The book received the 2008 Jolt Award and continues to be the official textbook for continuous integration. Today, he focuses on helping engineering teams adopt AI‑native and DevSecOps practices, drawing on multiple decades of delivering and managing software solutions. Mentioned in this Episode LinkedIn Website X Account Continuous Integration  Github  AI Development Patterns Redacted Adventures  Making CI CD Invisible a Vision for Zero Touch Delivery -  Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
• Damian Brady: GitHub AI - Episode 389 16.02.2026 40min

  https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/   Damian Brady is a Staff Developer Advocate at GitHub. He's a developer, speaker, and author specializing in AI, DevOps, MLOps, developer process, and software architecture. Formerly a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft for four years, and before that, a dev at Octopus Deploy and a Microsoft MVP, he has a 25-year background in software development and consulting in a broad range of industries. In Australia, he co-organized the Brisbane .Net User Group and launched the annual DDD Brisbane conference. Mentioned In This Episode  Episode 306 Episode 258 Episode 206 Episode 008 Github CoPilot Workspace X Account Website  Githubnext  Copilot for Docs Copilot for Pull Requests CoPilot Voice "What is GitHub Models? Here's how to use AI models easily"  "15 Minutes to Merge: The top feature announcements from GitHub Universe!" SpecKit  Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
• David Starr: DevOps Success Story - Episode 388 09.02.2026 46min

  David Starr is the President and Founder of Cumulus26, which helps companies succeed in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace and other facets of Azure. He's had a multi-decade career at Microsoft, Godaddy and others in senior technical leadership roles. He's spoken at industry conferences and delivered technical training courses and many other things. Mentioned In This Episode Episode 311  Episode 149 LinkedIn Making HIPAA and HITRUST compliance easier Azure for Executives Elegant Code Elegant Coder X Account  Plural Sight Plural Sight Course Mastering the Marketplace Episode 99 Cumulus26 AmpUp - for Microsoft Markeplace  Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.