In this episode of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BragTalks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, host Heather VanCura interviews Patrick Chanezon about participating in standards and open source projects &/or communities. Patrick shares his experiences and the impact this participation in the projects and communities has had on his career. Listen to hear about how he approached getting involved and even some of the mistakes made along the way. Season 7 is about sharing the experiences of technical professionals and building on the interviews from the recently published book '⁠⁠Developer Career Masterplan'⁠⁠. This episode is a story that links to Chapters 11 and 14 of the book..hope you enjoy our new look and Season 7 of BragTalks!

Biography: Patrick Chanezon manages the Cloud Developer Advocacy team in Developer Relations at Microsoft, helping developers achieve more with AI on Microsoft Cloud. Previously, at Docker Inc., he helped to build Docker, the world’s leading software container platform, for developers and sysadmins. He helped establish open source and standards organizations such as Open Container Initiative, Cloud Native Computing Foundation or Green Software Foundation. Software developer and storyteller, he spent 8 years building platforms at Netscape & Sun, then 19 years evangelizing platforms at Google, VMware & Microsoft. His main professional interest is in building and kickstarting the network effect for these wondrous two-sided markets called Platforms. He has worked on platforms for AI, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Web, Social, Commerce, Ads, and Portals.