Speaking

KCDC 2026 (Kansas City Developer Conference) · Kansas City, MO

How a simple feature ended up scattered across a dozen files in a layered Clean Architecture, and what changed when an open-source .NET system moved to vertical slices. One bakery API built both ways and verified by one shared test suite, with A-Frame Architecture and Railway Oriented Programming along the way.

Omaha .NET User Group · Omaha, NE

Wolverine and Marten as an alternative to boilerplate-heavy .NET frameworks, and to the in-house mediator library that quietly grows into a framework of its own. You write plain C# methods; the libraries handle durable messaging, persistence, retries, and observability.

KCDC 2024 (Kansas City Developer Conference) · Kansas City, MO

How a fast-growing ecommerce start-up adopted event sourcing, CQRS, and event-driven architecture, including the trade-offs, failures, and fixes that Hello World examples leave out.

Explore DDD 2024 · Denver, CO

The Domain-Driven Design view of an ecommerce business selling thousands of SKUs across dozens of marketplaces: why DDD, event sourcing, and CQRS were worth adopting there, and what they cost.

Nebraska.Code() workshop · Lincoln, NE

A day of EventStorming, Domain-Driven Design, CQRS, and event sourcing, building a working event-driven application in C#.

Omaha .NET User Group · Omaha, NE

Using Wolverine for asynchronous messaging, with .NET logging and OpenTelemetry, and pairing it with Marten for CQRS and event sourcing.

Nebraska.Code() · Lincoln, NE

What separates the event-driven and event-sourced systems that work from the ones that get blamed on the pattern.

Spreetail (internal) · Lincoln, NE

An introduction to event sourcing, delivered multiple times between 2020 and 2022 as the pattern gained traction on the team.

Heartland Developer Conference (HDC) · Omaha, NE

What event sourcing is, when to use it, and how it changes the way you think about data.

Spreetail (internal) · Lincoln, NE

A deeper look at event sourcing, focused on how modeling decisions affect an event-sourced system over the long term.

Spreetail (internal) · Lincoln, NE

Introducing CQRS and Domain-Driven Design as tools for managing complexity in large software systems.

Nebraska.Code() · Lincoln, NE

The case for Kotlin as the next step for JVM developers: concise syntax, null safety, and full Java interop.

Omaha Java User Group (OJUG) · Omaha, NE

A retrospective on running an intern program built around Java: what worked and what we learned.