Hey there, I'm Liam 👋

Senior Cloud Advocate / Software Engineer / Entrepreneur

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  • 🛠 Senior Cloud Advocate and Software Engineer @ Microsoft
  • 🕺Entrepreneur
  • 🚀 Microsoft Reactor Meetup Organiser (17k+ members)
  • 👨🏻‍💻 ex-Auth0 Ambassador x3
  • ✍🏻 Tech blogger / Content creator
  • 🌐 World traveller

Community commitments

Recent Projects

Generative AI Command Lind Interface (CLI)
Skills: Go, Azure OpenAI

A command line interface to bring Generative AI to the terminal. This CLI follows the 'spf13/cobra' convention and calls a number of the Azure OpenAI services. This allows the user to ask questions and create AI generated images from within the terminal.

Repository

Conference / Meetup talks

MSFT Reactor Stream - AI apps + AZD CLI
Talk title: Scaling and Maintaining AI Apps on Azure
September 2024

This session explained the fundamentals of AI and how we interact with LLMs coupled with a demo of the Azure Developer CLI and how you can use powerful developer tools to build, deploy, scale and maintain production AI applications. The application deployed in this demo is a Python powered multi-agent blog writing tool.

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GopherCon UK '24
Improving your code craft with Generative AI
August 2024

I delivered a session based on Generative AI - how to use prompt engineering, uncovering how we are using GenAI to improve the SDLC and a live demo using GitHub Copilot to extend an existing project and GPT deployment with local function calling on Azure OpenAI.

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code.talks Germany
Talk title: Code to Cloud with the Azure Developer CLI
September 2023

Conference talk at one of Germany's biggest conferences held within a Cinema. I focused this talk on the Azure Develoepr CLI and how it can assist developers when deploying end-to-end applications on Azure.

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GopherCon UK '23 Opening Keynote
Talk title: Memory management in Go: The good, the bad and the ugly
August 2023

I delivered the opening conference Keynote to an audience of ~600 people.

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London DevOps Meetup
Talk title: The Serverless Revolution (updated)
June 2023

Meetup talk at the Amazon London HQ. I presented my Serverless Revolution talk with a slight modification/update to also include a demo of the Azure Developer CLI.

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DevOpsDays Tel-Aviv
Talk title: The Serverless Revolution
December 2022

I presnted on the main stage at this conference. In this talk I spoke about how developers are decoupling infrastructure more and more and how it is effecting the DevOps lifecycle and its implications. I was running my

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GopherCon US
Talk title: Go to the Edge
Dec 2021

Virtual conference lightening talk. I spoke about TinyGo and how a language dubbed as "the networking language of the furture" is being used on IoT and embedded devices.

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Microsoft Reactor YouTube

For more video on demand content checkout my videos on the Microsoft Reactor YouTube channel.

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Recent Blogs

Step-by-Step: How to setup and use Azure CLI Interactive mode
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The difference between the Azure CLI and Azure Developer CLI?
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How to build, test and deploy your application using Azure and GitHub
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To read more of the blogs I have written, visit my Dev.to blog page
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Checkout my TikTok