Developer Insights and AI
Podcast|by Leanne Bevan|20 March 2025

Hear expert developer advice in our latest podcast episode
Our second podcast episode is now live. Each episode of our first season focuses on topic from one of our core areas. This week it's software development.
We’ve invited developer evangelist Jamie Maguire to discuss his career in development, trends he is seeing, advice for budding devs, and AI in development.
Introducing our guest... Jamie Maguire
Jamie Maguire is a software architect, developer, Microsoft MVP, and technical author with over 20 years of experience. He has a strong academic background in computer science and IT, and has worked across various industries including criminal justice, social media, finance, health, HR, law, transportation, and natural resources. Jamie specialises in Azure Cognitive Services, conversational AI, chatbots, the Microsoft Bot Framework, computer vision, ASP.NET, application architecture, and machine learning.
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