Manfred’s experience with coding and writing led to mentoring team members. It did not take long for this work to evolve into teaching and presenting in numerous public channels.
Topics and channels
Over the years many thousands of developers joined Manfred in remote and in-person training courses, presentations, and booth discussions at conferences, and broadcasts on numerous platforms:
- Main organizer and presenter for Manfred mentors
- Main organizer and host for Trino Community Broadcast
- Regular presenter for Learning Labs and other webinars for Chainguard
- Host and speaker at Trino Summit, Data Mesh conference and other events for Starburst
- Leader and trainer of the cloud and developer support training team at WalmartLabs
- Git and GitHub training for numerous audiences and clients
- Kubernetes, OneOps, and cloud-native training classes
- Various CI/CD and DevOps classes
- Nexus training for Sonatype, Telus, and others
- Maven training for Salesforce, Sonatype, Nexus, Takari and others
Recordings of the training videos, tutorials, and broadcasts are collected in the video log, and the episodes of the live show have their own home on the Manfred mentors page.
Conferences
Presentations, lightning talks, panel discussions, workshops, user meetups, and other events — Manfred has led all of these on various topics at conferences like:
- Chainguard Assemble
- RSA
- Black Hat
- Google Cloud Next
- Trino Summit and Trino Fest
- Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne
- OSCON
- DevOpsDays
- Jenkins User Conference
- AnDevCon
- Vancouver Island Java User Group VIJUG
- Google Developer Group Victoria, GDG
The event log lists the individual talks and appearances, with slides and recordings where they exist.