Speaking
Talks & appearances
Conference sessions, podcast appearances, and courses. If you are programming an event or booking a guest, this is the page you want.
What I speak about
Community
- Agentic Devs
The Discord I run for developers building with AI: agentic coding, evals, and shipping mobile and web apps with agents.
Conference talks · 4
Sessions delivered at conferences, in person and virtual.
- AWS re:Invent
- DroidCon
Building Apps that Scale
- Swift Heroes
Full Stack Swift Development
- Hacking With Swift Live
Auditing your App with the Accessibility Inspector
Internal talks · 1
Sessions given inside the company rather than at a public event. No recordings — listed for the record, not to be counted as conference appearances.
- Empowering Development Teams with AI
Published elsewhere · 6
Posts written for the official AWS engineering blog during the Amplify years.
- I designed my AI coding workflow around my attention, not my throughput.
- One-time Password Authentication with the Amplify Libraries for Swift
- Swift Package Manager Support for Amplify
- Rapid iOS App Prototyping with Amplify Admin UI and SwiftUI
- Using Swift Combine with AWS Amplify
- Building a Cash Flow App with Amplify DataStore and SwiftUI
Podcast and show appearances · 8
Invited on to other people’s shows to talk shop.
- Going From Dead-End Job to Pro iOS Developer
iOS Dev Podcast interview
- Talking with Apples: AWS Amplify with Kilo Loco
Podcast about AWS Amplify
- Empower Apps: AWS Amplify with Kilo Loco
Podcast interview about AWS Amplify
- Launched: Self-Taught Sr. Developer Advocate at AWS
Podcast about my path to AWS
- Talking iOS, Careers, Swift, SwiftUI & More
Q&A with iOS Academy
- The Mayank Show: Networking Strategy & Developer Advocacy
Interview on The Mayank Show
- Swift by Sundell: "Truly a general-purpose language"
Podcast with John Sundell about Publish and Swift web dev
- A Swiftly Tilting Planet: Interview with Kilo Loco
Podcast interview on A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Courses and features · 2
Published courses, and coverage from elsewhere.
- Featured on Swift.org - Celebrating Black History Month
Featured by Apple on Swift.org
- Udemy Courses by Kilo Loco
iOS development courses
The Kilo Loco show · 14
My own podcast, fourteen episodes on doing the work.
- 014 - Two Birds, One Stone
Episode 14 • 01:18:38
- 013 - Getting Hired Takes Sacrifice
Episode 13 • 00:26:21
- 012 - A New Show
Episode 12 • 00:26:43
- 011 - More To Learn
Episode 11 • 00:22:58
- 010 - Establishing A Good Foundation
Episode 10 • 00:15:37
- 009 - Staying Focused
Episode 9 • 00:20:27
- 008 - Gaining Perspective
Episode 8 • 00:26:50
- 007 - Graveyard Shift
Episode 7 • 00:18:25
- 006 - #100DaysOfHustle
Episode 6 • 00:37:07
- 005 - Spare Time
Episode 5 • 00:18:35
- 004 - Accountability
Episode 4 • 00:17:35
- 003 - Self Realization
Episode 3 • 00:24:35
- 002 - The Tutorial Trap
Episode 2 • 00:12:54
- 001 - Keep Searching
Episode 1 • 00:14:31