MK .NET
I run and organise the Milton Keynes .NET User Group
Layla Porter
United Kingdom
Layla is a full-stack .NET developer. She is a Microsoft MVP and sits on the board of directors of the .NET Foundation. Layla can often be found on Twitch streaming live coding; she loves nothing more than sharing knowledge and believe there is no such thing as a stupid question.
Community Contributions
.NET conf
I had a session called Introduction to Microservices
.NET Conf
I am MC'ing the UK portion of .NET conf
Live coding on twitch
A session on how to live code on twitch
DevRelCon
Career journey fireside chat
F# exchange
I gave a talk at F# exchange on Microservices architecture
.NET Developer Days
I gave a talk on Azure Functions
CodeItLive Twitch
I joined Alyssa Nicoll on the JS girl in a .NET world show
CodeItLive twitch
I joined the advocates on the CodeItLive channel to learn about expression trees in C#
Devops Loop
I gave a lightning talk on live coding on twitch
Hacktoberfest
Set up an app called prtracker.net to encourage more people to make their first PR to a .net project.
Hacktoberfest
Opened women of dot net for hacktoberfest
SpringOne
I gave a talk on TDD
SpringOne
I co presented with a teammate and a member of the Java on Azure team to show how to build a service.
Women of .NET
I created an open source project where women can create a profile. It's open source and I encourage people to contribute (not just women)
Cork .NET and Azure meetup
I can a talk on Azure Functions
Dev journey
I spoke about my career path
ONETUG
Gave a talk on azure functions
Blazing into Summer
I was a guest on CodeItLive week long conference to show off some Blazor tech
.NET Zuid
I ave a talk on Azure Functions
.NET South East
Gave a talk on getting started with Azure Functions
JetBrains .NET dev day
I gave a talk called TDD and the developer
Stream with Luis Quintanilla
Luis came on to show us how to get started with ML.NET
Live stream with Diego Colombo
Special guest Diego Colombo on stream to show us all how to use .NET interactive.
Discord
I have a community discord server related to my stream where people can share knowledge and help each other with coding solutions
.NET Stoke
Gave a talk on Azure Functions
Coding after work
I was a guest on the twitch podcast
CodeThesaurus
I live streamed with Sarah the maintainer of CodeThesaurus. We made some PRs
Hackathon league
Judged the Easter hackathon
Live coders presents IWD
I spearheaded a one day conference for International Women's day.
I did a lot of the organisation and also MC'd.
Betatalks
i was a guest on the Beta talks podcast
Code Gen
I gave the opening keynote
Love week on CodeItLive
I was a guest on the CodeItLive love week challenge
twitch stream
Streaming fairly regularly, livecoding on twitch, sharing knowledge.
.NET Foundation
I was on the board of directors for the .NET Foundation until September.
A year of women
I instigated and executed a year of only women speakers at the .NET user group to prove it could be done.
C# for beginners
A beginner friendly stream with Alyssa Nicoll