Talks

Public Talks

• ATX PowerShell
• All Things Open: 2018, 2021, 2024
• All Things Open.AI: 2025
• Austin Bare-Metal Club
• Austin DevOps: video 2016
• Austin JAX (Jenkins Meetup)
• Austin Operators Meetup
• AutomaCon: video 2015 , video 2016
• BSides OK: 2022
• Chef Summit London: 2015
• ChefConf: video 2016 , video 2018
• Cloud Austin
• ConfigManagement Camp Ghent: 2015 , video 2019 , video 2024, 2025
• ConfigManagement Camp Portland: 2017
• ContainerStack Zurich: 2019
• DevConf.US: 2022
• DevOps MidWest: Keynote 2023
• DevOpsDays Amsterdam: oNLine 2021
• DevOpsDays Atlanta: 2019
• DevOpsDays Austin: video 2015 , video 2016 , video 2017 , 2019
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL: 2022 Keynote
• DevOpsDays Boise: 2022
• DevOpsDays Buffalo: video 2020 , 2023
• DevOpsDays Dallas: 2016, video 2019
• DevOpsDays Denver: 2024
• DevOpsDays Ghent: 2019
• DevOpsDays Hardford: 2019
• DevOpsDays Houston: 2019, 2021
• DevOpsDays Indianapolis: 2019
• DevOpsDays Kansas City: 2019, 2024
• DevOpsDays Medellín: 2021
• DevOpsDays Portland: video 2016 , 2017 , 2019
• DevOpsDays Poznan: 2021
• DevOpsDays Seattle: video 2016
• DevOpsDays Stocklhom: 2019
• DevOpsDays Toronto: 2016
• DevOpsDays Vancouver: 2016, 2019
• DevRelCon Tokyo: video 2021
• DevWorld Amsterdam - 2025
• EmacsATX: video 2014
• FOSSY: 2023
• FOSDEM: 2020 , Emcee AI and ML Room 2024, Emcee Low Level AI Room 2025
• GM and Chef engineering day: 2018
• Gitex EMEA: 2023
• HPE and Chef engineering day: video
• IBM TechXchange: 2024
• IBM THINK Gov: 2019
• Indianapolis DevOps Meetup
• Interop ITX: 2017
• KCDC: 2022 , 2023
• KubeCon APAC: 2019
• KubeCon EU: 2019: IBM booth Speaker 3x , 2021: IBM booth Speaker 2x , 2023: IBM booth Speaker 2x
• KubeCon NA: 2018: IBM booth Speaker 2x , 2021: IBM booth Speaker 4x , 2022: IBM booth Speaker 1x
• KubeHuddle: 2022
• LEAP 2024
• LibrePlanet: video 2020
• London Chef Meetup
• LonghornPHP: 2021
• Michigan Tech Con: 2025x2
• Nutanix .NEXT: video 2018
• OpenStack Summit Austin: interview
• OpenStack Summit Paris
• OpenStack Summit Toyko: video
• OpenStack Summit Vancouver: video
• OSS EU 2022
• Portland Chef Meetup
• SCaLE: 17x, 19x, 20x, 21x
• SeaGL: 2018
• Sketch Conference 2023, 2024
• SRE Day: 2022
• StackConf: 2022 Full and Ignite
• TalkDevOps Toronto: video
• Texas Linux Fest: 2015, 2016, 2018
• that.us Texas: 2022, 2023
• The Cloud First EU: video 2021
• VMUG Austin: 2018
• VMUG Carolina: 2019
• VMworld: video 2017 , video 2018 , 2019 , video 2020
• Dallas Docker
• future{stack}: 2022

Streaming Conferences and/or Webinars

• All Day DevOps: video 2020 , 2021 , 2022 , 2023
• Angelbeat: video 2020 , video 2021
• Ansiblefest: video 2021
• Apps ON Cloud Summit 2021
• AzureFunBytes: episode 46 blogpost
• CODECAMP_ECONFS: 2022
• Chef and Hashicorp Vault: webinar
• Cloud Engineering Summit (Pulumi)- [Speaker and Emcee] video 2021
• Cloud Builders Python Conference Ukraine: 2023
• Conf42 Cloud-Native: 2022
• Conf42 Python: 2022
• Conf42 SRE: 2021
• conferconf: 2023
• Contrast Security: Defining and Stopping the “Plague” of Application Security False Positives
• DevRelCon Tokyo: interview 2021 video 2021
• Developer Week 2021 (Austin, Texas)
• Developer Week 2021 (DE)
• Developer Week Enterprise 2023
• Flyless Dev: 2021
• GSDC DTO Summit Keynote: video 2021
• Google Cloud Platform and Chef: webinar
• Hashitalks: video 2019
• IBM Cloud Day: video 2021
• IBM Digital Developer Conference: AIOps & Integration: 2021
• IBM Pakistan Dev Summit: 2020
• IBM THINK: 2021 , Roundtable Champions 2022 video Day 1 video Day 2
• IBM Tech TV: 2020
• IBM Turkey Dev Day 2020
• Indy Python Web Conferance: video 2019
• Jakarta Tech Talk: video 2022
• Learning OpenShift and Minishift: video 2019
• OSAD (Open Source Automation Days): 2021
• OSCONF (Open Source Community Conference): 2021
• OpenShift Commons: 2020
• OpenShift Exploration and Learnings: Part 1
• OpenShift.tv: video 2020
• Pyjamas.live: 2021
• Python Web Conf: video 2021 , 2022 Keynote video , 2023 Keynote
• StackConf 2020 , 2021
• Tanzu TV: Running a Cobol ETL application on Kubernetes.
• The DEVOPS Conference (eficode): 2021
• Turbonomic Live: 2020
• Using Folding@Home with Ansible VMware and IBM Cloud video
• Warsaw IT Community: 2022
• allthetalks.online: video 2020
• iTech Conference Canada: video 2020
• vBrownBag: video 2018

Podcasts

• Arrested DevOps: episode 58 (bad audio :( )
• Cloud with Chris: video 2021
• Cloud Native Compass: video 2023 Trust and Validation in AI
• DevChat.tv: Two DevOps Old Dogs Sharing Tricks with JJ Asghar: DevOps 048
• Developer Advocast: episode 4
• DevCentral Connects: episode 128 Stumbling Blocks in App Modernization w JJ Asghar: May 30, 2023
• DevOps Dispatch: A KubeCon Review from Swag to Tech: KubeCon EU 2023
• Discoposse: episode 130
• Foodfight Show: interview
• Inside Appsec: episode 16
• OSpod: interview
• OnCall Nightmares: 2019
• Software Defined Talk: episode 21 , episode 63 , episode 263 , Guest Host for that.us Texas recording 2022 , episode 398
• Stackoverflow Podcast: episode 230
• Drunk and Retired The Hallway Track: host page
• Packet Pushers: TL010: Leading With Influence Rather Than Mandating

Articles/Interviews

• Top 20 Developer Advocates for 2020: here
• The Top 20 Developer Advocates 2020: here
• SRE, what is it, and how it can help: here
• OSOps Gives Operators a Powerful Tool to Poke OpenStack Developers: here
• Why IT Leaders Are Fast-Tracking Application Modernization Solutions: here
• Cultivating Careers, Communities and Companies with Open Source: here
• How to enter an Open Source Community: here
• The Overflow (Stack Overflow): here
• How IT leaders can fast-track application modernization solutions (Business Insider): here
• See you at SCaLE!: here
• Global DevSlam returns to unite the leading minds of innovators: here
• IBM, Wastsonx, and the latest AI Trends with JJ: here

IBM Videos

• Building Bridges: Open Source Security and the Power of Community
• Code@Think Office Hours May 11th, 2021
• Code@Think Office Hours May 12th, 2021
• Developer Diaries: Observability-Driven Development w/ Instana
• Developer Diaries: The Case of the Miscoded Credentials
• Developer Diaries: The Multicloud Advantage
• Developer Diaries: The Versatility of OpenShift
• Developer Diaries: When Serverless Makes Sense
• GitOps and Cloud Adoption: You Need Both
• Open Minds: Hybrid Cloud
• What excites developers about watsonx?
• Wild and Dangerous, w/ Marty and JJ: Helm: The Story, Part 1
• AI in Action: Rewriting the future: how devs are driving gen AI