# Johnny Boursiquot

Software engineer with over two decades of building and running production systems, on startup founding teams and inside large technology companies. Co-founder and CTO of Skilltype. Works across AI systems, cloud architecture, distributed systems, and reliability engineering. Also a conference keynote speaker and instructor, with courses on O'Reilly, LinkedIn Learning, and Packt.

Last updated: 2026-09-28. Contact: message on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jboursiquot). Website: https://www.jboursiquot.com/

## Facts

- Roles, most recent first, with length: Director of Technology, Human Agency (3 mos); Principal Software Engineer and Program Lead, Chick-fil-A via Stable Kernel (1 yr 1 mo); Contract engineer, Rocket Farm (4 mos); Co-founder and CTO (fractional), Skilltype (6 yrs 11 mos); Platform Observability Engineer, Salesforce (1 yr 11 mos); Site Reliability Engineer, Heroku (2 yrs); Principal Cloud Engineer, ANet (The Achievement Network) (2 yrs 10 mos); Senior Software Engineer, InfluxData (4 mos); Software Architect and Principal Software Engineer, One Door; Software Engineering Instructor, Launch Academy; Engineering leadership roles, MAARK.
- Founder of Idiomat LLC, a software engineering training and consulting company (https://idiomat.co/).
- Software engineer for over two decades; earlier roles before MAARK are not listed.
- GopherCon: program chair; workshop instructor at GopherCon US, EU, and Singapore (most recently August 2026); closing keynotes 2019 and 2021; emcee 2024 and 2026.
- Go Time podcast (Changelog Media): host, 2017 to December 2024. The show ended with its final episode in December 2024; he is no longer hosting a podcast.
- Contributing author, 97 Things Every SRE Should Know (O'Reilly).
- Most recent public engagements: August 2026 at GopherCon US (moderator: A Slice of Go's Future; emcee; host: United Go Meetup; instructor: Agents the Hard Way: Building Agentic Systems in Go).
- Education: M.S., Cloud Computing Architecture, University of Maryland Global Campus; B.S., Computer and Information Science, University of Maryland Global Campus.

## Now

- **Skilltype** (https://www.skilltype.com/), Co-founder and CTO. I co-founded this cloud-based SaaS platform for workforce development in libraries and information professions, and I architect the platform and its LLM-powered features.
- **Idiomat** (https://idiomat.co/), Founder. Training and consulting on Go, AWS, serverless and event-driven architecture, SRE practice, and building with LLMs.
- **GopherCon** (https://www.gophercon.com/), Program chair and workshop instructor. Workshops at GopherCon US, EU, and Singapore since 2018; closing keynotes in 2019 and 2021; emcee and closing-panel moderator at GopherCon US 2026.

## Work history

Most recent first, with length of each role. Some roles overlapped.

### Human Agency: Director of Technology (3 mos)

- Restarted a stalled SOC 2 readiness program, delivering automated security controls across all active company systems, vendor tracking, and audit evidence collection.
- Built a commercial controls program ahead of the product's beta launch, including per-customer cost and margin tracking, usage attribution, vendor cost monitoring, and AI-assisted invoice processing workflows.
- Built much of the product front end in TypeScript and Next.js through AI-assisted development, on PostgreSQL and Redis.
- Fixed inefficiencies and set up guardrails in a codebase written mostly by non-engineers with AI tools.
- Technologies: TypeScript, Next.js, PostgreSQL, ORM, Redis, Anthropic, OpenAI, MCP, CI/CD

### Chick-fil-A (via Stable Kernel): Principal Software Engineer and Program Lead (1 yr 1 mo)

- Lead architecture and delivery for Chick-fil-A's Loyalty Platform initiatives, working with product, engineering, and business teams.
- Cut cache infrastructure costs by 39% and improved latency for high-traffic promotion workloads.
- Traced DynamoDB throttling to thundering-herd cache expiration and designed a phased fix using TTL jitter, request deduplication, and distributed coordination.
- Designed location-scoped cache invalidation and event propagation that reduced promotion-data staleness from minutes to near real time.
- Hire engineers at Stable Kernel, document failure modes, and build Datadog diagnostics for release performance.
- Technologies: DynamoDB, caching, event propagation, Datadog

### Rocket Farm: Contract engineer (4 mos)

- Designed and built a serverless AWS IoT backend in Go for a connected-device product: gateway provisioning with X.509 certificates, a device registry, and MQTT command and control.
- Processed device telemetry and alarms with IoT rules, SQS, EventBridge, DynamoDB, and Lambda, and delivered over-the-air firmware updates through S3.
- Instrumented the system with OpenTelemetry traces and metrics sent to Honeycomb, and built device simulators for end-to-end testing.
- Shipped infrastructure with SAM and CloudFormation through GitHub Actions pipelines for dev, staging, and production.
- Technologies: Go, AWS IoT Core, MQTT, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, EventBridge, S3, OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, GitHub Actions

### Skilltype: Co-founder and CTO (fractional) (6 yrs 11 mos)

- Own product direction and engineering for Skilltype's library talent-management software, from initial concept through launch.
- Build across backend services and React front ends using Go, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and AWS; rebuilt the web front end with React, TypeScript, and Vite.
- Build production AI features with Bedrock, Anthropic, and OpenAI, including RAG and tool-calling for customer workflows, and design APIs and MCP integrations for customers.
- Set testing, CI/CD, observability, and secure delivery standards, supporting GDPR-aware architecture, SOC 2-aligned practices, and TX-RAMP compliance.
- Hire and mentor engineers, review designs and code, and work with executive and product teams on what to build.
- Technologies: Go, Java, TypeScript, React, Vite, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS, Bedrock

### Salesforce: Platform Observability Engineer (1 yr 11 mos)

- Wrote shared Go instrumentation libraries to help service teams adopt OpenTelemetry, and standardized instrumentation patterns across services.
- Led the move from legacy monitoring to Honeycomb and distributed tracing, and helped service owners diagnose production behavior.
- Mentored engineers in Go, observability, and distributed systems.
- Technologies: Go, OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb

### Heroku: Site Reliability Engineer (2 yrs)

- Built tooling and improved incident-response, deployment, and monitoring workflows for Heroku services.
- Served as incident commander during major production incidents, coordinating mitigation and communication.
- Helped Salesforce engineering teams adopt Heroku, and mentored engineers in Go, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems.

### ANet (The Achievement Network): Principal Cloud Engineer (2 yrs 10 mos)

- Led backend engineering and AWS modernization for an education SaaS product.
- Built CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation on AWS, and designed backend services and APIs.
- Guided engineering teams on AWS architecture and implementation.
- Technologies: Go, Java, PostgreSQL, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB

### InfluxData: Senior Software Engineer (4 mos)

- Worked on distributed time-series database infrastructure and enterprise SaaS services in Go.
- Technologies: Go

### One Door: Software Architect and Principal Software Engineer

- Built retail-merchandising SaaS applications, APIs, and messaging.
- Technologies: Ruby on Rails, MySQL, RabbitMQ

### Launch Academy: Software Engineering Instructor

- Taught Ruby on Rails and web application development, and mentored new engineers.
- Technologies: Ruby on Rails

### MAARK: Engineering leadership roles

- Owned products from concept through launch, hired engineers, and built enterprise SaaS, payments, and web applications across backend and HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

### Earlier roles: Software engineer

- Additional software engineering roles preceded MAARK.


## Skills by role

### Languages

- Go: Chick-fil-A, Rocket Farm, Salesforce, Skilltype, Heroku, ANet (The Achievement Network), InfluxData
- Java: Skilltype, ANet (The Achievement Network)
- TypeScript: Human Agency, Skilltype
- JavaScript: Skilltype, MAARK
- Python: Human Agency, Skilltype
- SQL: Skilltype, ANet (The Achievement Network), One Door, MAARK
- Ruby on Rails: Heroku, One Door, Launch Academy
- HTML and CSS: Skilltype, MAARK

### Front End

- React: Human Agency, Skilltype
- Next.js: Human Agency
- Vite: Skilltype
- Vitest: Skilltype
- React Testing Library: Skilltype
- Playwright: Skilltype
- Accessibility testing: Skilltype
- Material UI: Skilltype
- React Router: Skilltype
- Algolia InstantSearch: Skilltype

### Cloud & Delivery

- AWS: Human Agency, Chick-fil-A, Rocket Farm, Skilltype, ANet (The Achievement Network)
- Lambda: Rocket Farm, Skilltype, ANet (The Achievement Network)
- ECS Fargate: Skilltype
- SQS and SNS: Rocket Farm, Skilltype, ANet (The Achievement Network)
- Docker: Human Agency, Chick-fil-A, Salesforce, Skilltype, Heroku, ANet (The Achievement Network), InfluxData
- Kubernetes: Chick-fil-A, Salesforce, Heroku
- CI/CD: Human Agency, Rocket Farm, Skilltype, ANet (The Achievement Network)
- Deployment automation: Rocket Farm, Heroku, ANet (The Achievement Network)
- CloudFormation and SAM: Rocket Farm
- Heroku platform: Salesforce, Heroku

### Architecture & APIs

- Architecture: Chick-fil-A, Rocket Farm, Skilltype, ANet (The Achievement Network), One Door, MAARK
- API design: Rocket Farm, Skilltype, ANet (The Achievement Network), One Door, MAARK
- Backend services: Rocket Farm, Skilltype, Heroku, ANet (The Achievement Network), InfluxData, MAARK, One Door
- Distributed systems: Chick-fil-A, Rocket Farm, Salesforce, Heroku, InfluxData
- Event-driven design: Chick-fil-A, Rocket Farm, Skilltype, ANet (The Achievement Network)
- Caching strategy: Chick-fil-A
- Data integrations: Skilltype, MAARK
- Messaging: Rocket Farm, ANet (The Achievement Network), One Door
- AWS IoT and MQTT: Rocket Farm
- OTA firmware updates: Rocket Farm

### Data

- PostgreSQL: Human Agency, Skilltype, Heroku, ANet (The Achievement Network), One Door
- ORM: Human Agency
- DynamoDB: Chick-fil-A, Rocket Farm, Skilltype, ANet (The Achievement Network)
- Redis: Human Agency, Chick-fil-A, Skilltype, Heroku, One Door
- MySQL: One Door
- Oracle Database: MAARK
- RabbitMQ: One Door
- Time-series data: InfluxData

### Reliability & Observability

- OpenTelemetry: Chick-fil-A, Rocket Farm, Salesforce, Skilltype
- Honeycomb: Rocket Farm, Salesforce, Skilltype, Heroku
- Datadog: Chick-fil-A
- Distributed tracing: Chick-fil-A, Rocket Farm, Salesforce, Skilltype
- Incident command: Heroku
- SRE tooling: Salesforce, Heroku
- Performance tuning: Chick-fil-A
- Failure-mode analysis: Chick-fil-A
- Testing standards: Skilltype
- Observability standards: Salesforce, Skilltype

### AI

- Production AI features: Human Agency, Skilltype
- AI agents: Human Agency, Skilltype
- RAG: Skilltype
- Tool calling: Human Agency, Skilltype
- MCP: Human Agency, Skilltype
- Amazon Bedrock: Skilltype
- Anthropic: Human Agency, Skilltype
- OpenAI: Human Agency, Skilltype
- AI-assisted workflows: Human Agency
- AI-assisted development: Human Agency, Chick-fil-A, Skilltype

### Security & Compliance

- SOC 2: Human Agency, Skilltype
- Security controls: Human Agency
- Device certificates and TOTP: Rocket Farm
- GDPR: Skilltype
- TX-RAMP: Skilltype
- Secure delivery: Skilltype
- Audit evidence: Human Agency

### Leadership & Business

- Engineering leadership: Human Agency, Chick-fil-A, Salesforce, Skilltype, MAARK, One Door
- Hiring: Chick-fil-A, Skilltype, MAARK
- Mentoring: Salesforce, Skilltype, Heroku, Launch Academy
- Design and code review: Human Agency, Chick-fil-A, Salesforce, Skilltype, Heroku, ANet (The Achievement Network), InfluxData, One Door, Launch Academy, MAARK
- Product direction: Human Agency, Skilltype, MAARK
- Program leadership: Chick-fil-A
- Cross-functional delivery: Chick-fil-A, Heroku, MAARK
- Executive partnership: Human Agency, Skilltype, MAARK
- Cost and margin controls: Human Agency, Chick-fil-A
- Vendor management: Human Agency, Skilltype, MAARK
- Codebase guardrails: Human Agency, Skilltype, One Door, MAARK
- Teaching: Launch Academy

### Industries

- Enterprise SaaS: Human Agency, Skilltype, InfluxData, One Door, MAARK
- Enterprise AI: Human Agency
- Loyalty and retail: Chick-fil-A, One Door
- Talent management: Skilltype
- Connected devices: Rocket Farm
- Education: ANet (The Achievement Network), Launch Academy
- Developer platforms: Salesforce, Heroku
- Payments: MAARK

## Stack

- Languages: Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Java
- Front End: React, TypeScript, Vite, Vitest, Playwright, Material UI
- Cloud: AWS: Lambda, ECS and Fargate, S3, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Cognito, CloudFront, Bedrock
- Architecture: Microservices, serverless, event-driven and distributed systems
- Data: Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, time-series databases
- APIs & Messaging: REST, GraphQL, gRPC, MQTT
- Delivery & Operations: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, CloudFormation, Terraform, OpenTelemetry, SRE practice
- AI: LLM applications, AI agents, Amazon Bedrock, OpenAI models, Anthropic models

## Workshops

Team training topics: Cloud architecture on AWS, serverless and event-driven systems, reliability and observability, containers and delivery pipelines, API design, Go, and building LLM applications and agents.

| Workshop | Length | For | Last delivered |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Agents the Hard Way: Building Agentic Systems in Go](https://www.gophercon.com/agenda/session/1801556) | Two half-days | Engineers building agentic systems | GopherCon US, Aug 2026 |
| [Building and Deploying AI Agents with Go](https://www.gophercon.com/agenda/session/1590663) | Full day | Go developers adding LLM features | GopherCon US, Aug 2025 |
| [Advanced Go for Experienced Programmers](https://www.gophercon.com/agenda/session/1545650) | Full day | Working Go developers | GopherCon US, Aug 2025 |
| [Serverless Go](https://learning.oreilly.com/live-training/courses/serverless-go/0636920407034/) | Live training | Developers building on AWS Lambda | O'Reilly, May 2020 |
| [Backend development cohort](https://pivottechschool.com) | 7 weeks | Career-change cohort of 25, in Go | Pivot Technology School, Oct 2022 |

Recorded courses:

- [Hands-On Introduction: Go](https://www.linkedin.com/learning/hands-on-introduction-go/hands-on-with-go), LinkedIn Learning 2022
- [Go Standard Library Solutions](https://bitly.com/gostdsol), Packt

## Keynotes

- December 2021, GopherCon: [Unbounded Concurrency in Go (live, with Aaron Schlesinger)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAUjYyBfELk)
- November 2020, QCon Plus: [The SRE as a Diplomat](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/sre-build-trust/)
- May 2020, Go Get Community: [Closing keynote](https://www.gogetcommunity.com/)
- July 2019, GopherCon: [Closing keynote](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pc0bzz4-gM)

## Writing and podcasts

- [97 Things Every SRE Should Know](https://www.amazon.com/Things-Every-SRE-Should-Know/dp/1492081493): Contributing author, O'Reilly, 2020
- [Go Time](https://changelog.com/person/jboursiquot): Host, 2017 to the show's final episode in December 2024, Changelog Media

## Community

- GopherCon (https://www.gophercon.com/): Program chair
- GoBridge (https://golangbridge.org/): Leadership team
- Baltimore Go User Group (https://baltimoregolang.org/): Founder and organizer
- Haiti School Project (https://haitischoolproject.org/): Board of directors
- Boston Golang (https://bostongolang.org/): Organizer (former)
- Boston Ruby Group (https://bostonrb.org/): Organizer (former)
- RailsBridge Boston (https://www.railsbridgeboston.org/): Instructor (former)

## Education and certifications

- M.S., Cloud Computing Architecture, University of Maryland Global Campus
- B.S., Computer and Information Science, University of Maryland Global Campus

## Bios

Either bio may be quoted as-is.

### General

Johnny Boursiquot is a software engineer with over two decades of experience building and running production systems, on startup founding teams and inside large technology companies. He is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Skilltype, where he builds LLM-powered products, and he trains and advises engineering teams through his company, Idiomat. Earlier he helped establish Site Reliability Engineering practices at Heroku and contributed to O'Reilly's 97 Things Every SRE Should Know. His courses on Go, cloud, and AI engineering are available on O'Reilly, LinkedIn Learning, and Packt.

### Go community

Johnny Boursiquot is a multi-disciplined software engineer with a love for teaching and community-building. He founded the Baltimore Go User Group and has organized both the Boston Ruby and Boston Go user groups. He is a GopherCon program chair, delivered GopherCon closing keynotes in 2019 and 2021, and teaches workshops at GopherCon events in the US, Europe, and Singapore. He hosted the Go Time podcast from 2017 until its final episode in December 2024. He is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Skilltype.

Headshot: https://www.jboursiquot.com/img/johnny-headshot-round.jpg

## Archive

All public engagements since 2013, newest first.

### 2026

| Month | Kind | Role | Where | What |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August | Talk | Moderator | GopherCon US | [A Slice of Go's Future](https://www.gophercon.com/agenda/session/1880696) |
| August | Organizing | Emcee | GopherCon US, Seattle | [Emcee](https://www.gophercon.com/agenda/session/1801580) |
| August | Organizing | Host | GopherCon US | [United Go Meetup](https://www.gophercon.com/agenda/session/1801599) |
| August | Workshop | Instructor | GopherCon US | [Agents the Hard Way: Building Agentic Systems in Go](https://www.gophercon.com/agenda/session/1801556) |
| June | Workshop | Instructor | Nexus Louisiana Startup School, Baton Rouge | [Building with AI](https://www.nexusla.org/) |

### 2025

| Month | Kind | Role | Where | What |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December | Podcast | Guest | Cup o' Go | [GopherCon 2026 dates and location announced](https://cupogo.dev/episodes/all-software-sucks-then-you-die-but-first-gophercon-2026-dates-and-location-announced) |
| August | Workshop | Instructor | GopherCon US | [Building and Deploying AI Agents with Go](https://www.gophercon.com/agenda/session/1590663) |
| August | Workshop | Instructor | GopherCon US | [Advanced Go for Experienced Programmers](https://www.gophercon.com/agenda/session/1545650) |
| January | Workshop | Instructor | GopherCon Singapore | Go for Experienced Programmers |

### 2024

| Month | Kind | Role | Where | What |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December | Podcast | Guest | Ardan Labs Podcast | [Startups, Resilience, and Passion with Johnny Boursiquot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8_ff39tGD8) |
| December | Podcast | Co-host | Go Time | [That's Go Time](https://changelog.com/gotime/340) |
| December | Podcast | Co-host | Go Time | [Pitching Go in 2025](https://changelog.com/gotime/339) |
| November | Podcast | Co-host | Go Time | [Crawl, walk & run your way to usable CLIs in Go](https://changelog.com/gotime/337) |
| October | Podcast | Co-host | Go Time | [Writing a shell in Go](https://changelog.com/gotime/336) |
| October | Podcast | Co-host | Go Time | [AI for Observability](https://changelog.com/gotime/335) |
| October | Podcast | Guest | Changelog & Friends | [The indispensable cog](https://changelog.com/friends/65) |
| September | Podcast | Co-host | Go Time | ["Founder Mode" at work when you're not a founder](https://changelog.com/gotime/332) |
| September | Podcast | Co-host | Go Time | [How I lost my (old) job to AI](https://changelog.com/gotime/331) |
| September | Podcast | Co-host | Go Time | [Home automation with Go](https://changelog.com/gotime/330) |
| July | Podcast | Co-host | Go Time | [OpenAPI & API design](https://changelog.com/gotime/328) |
| July | Podcast | Co-host | Go Time | [What's New in Go 1.23](https://changelog.com/gotime/325) |
| July | Organizing | Emcee | GopherCon US, Chicago | Emcee |
| July | Workshop | Instructor | GopherCon US, Chicago | Go for Experienced Programmers |
| June | Workshop | Instructor | GopherCon EU, Berlin | Go for Experienced Programmers |
| May | Podcast | Co-host | Go Time | [What if Google lays off the Go team?](https://changelog.com/gotime/315) |
| May | Talk | Speaker | Stuttgart Go Users Group, Stuttgart | [Robust HTTP Servers and Clients in Go](https://www.meetup.com/stuttgart-gophers/events/300674376) |
| April | Workshop | Instructor | O'Reilly | [Go in 3 Weeks](https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/go-in-3-weeks/0636920060986/0636920060985/) |
| March | Podcast | Co-host | Go Time | [Questions from a new Go developer](https://changelog.com/gotime/308) |
| March | Podcast | Co-host | Go Time | [Jumping into an existing codebase](https://changelog.com/gotime/307) |

### 2023

| Month | Kind | Role | Where | What |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | Workshop | Instructor | O'Reilly | [Go Generics in 2 Hours](https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/go-generics-in-2-hours/0636920072269) |

### 2022

| Month | Kind | Role | Where | What |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November | Course | Author | LinkedIn Learning | [Hands-On Go](https://www.linkedin.com/learning/hands-on-introduction-go/hands-on-with-go) |
| October | Workshop | Instructor | Pivot Technology School | [Instructor](https://pivottechschool.com) |
| September | Workshop | Instructor | O'Reilly | [Go Generics in 2 Hours](https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/go-generics-in-2-hours/0636920072269) |
| August | Workshop | Instructor | O'Reilly | [Go in 3 Weeks](https://learning.oreilly.com/live-events/go-in-3-weeks/0636920060986/0636920062624/) |
| July | Workshop | Instructor | O'Reilly | [Go Generics in 2 Hours](https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/go-generics-in-2-hours/0636920072269) |
| April | Workshop | Instructor | O'Reilly | [Go in 3 Weeks](https://learning.oreilly.com/live-events/go-in-3-weeks/0636920060986/0636920062624/) |
| January | Workshop | Instructor | O'Reilly | [Go in 3 Weeks](https://learning.oreilly.com/live-events/go-in-3-weeks/0636920060986/0636920062624/) |
| January | Talk | Speaker | Association for Computing Machinery | [The Art of Concurrency in Go](https://learning.acm.org/techtalks/concurrencygo) |
| January | Podcast | Guest | PodRocket | [Getting Started with Golang](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNI7NTKNJPM&ab_channel=LogRocket) |

### 2021

| Month | Kind | Role | Where | What |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December | Keynote | Keynote speaker | GopherCon 2021 | [Unbounded Concurrency in Go (live with Aaron Schlesinger)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAUjYyBfELk&ab_channel=GopherAcademy) |
| June | Talk | Speaker | Craft Conference | [Unbounded Concurrency (extended version)](https://craft-conf.com/speaker/JohnnyBoursiquot) |
| May | Workshop | Instructor | GopherCon EU | [Practical Go Workshop](https://gophercon.eu/) |
| April | Talk | Speaker | O'Reilly | [Open Source Software Superstream Series: Go—Generics, Extensibility, and the Future of Go in Open Source Programming](https://www.oreilly.com/attend/open-source-software-superstream-series-gogenerics-extensibility-and-the-future-of-go-in-open-source-programming/0636920053215/0636920053214/) |
| March | Talk | Speaker | Golang NYC | [Unbounded Concurrency](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDDNYA9MeNQ&t=1862s&ab_channel=GolangNYCMeetup) |
| January | Talk | Speaker | Lagos Gophers | [Let's build a port scanner with Go](https://www.meetup.com/GolangNigeria/events/274776873/) |

### 2020

| Month | Kind | Role | Where | What |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November | Keynote | Keynote speaker | QCon | [The SRE as a Diplomat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB8yybpdEwY) |
| September | Talk | Speaker | National Information Standards Organization (NISO) | [Privacy and Search Technology](https://niso.org/niso-io/2020/09/privacy-and-effective-search-experience-johnny-boursiquot) |
| June | Podcast | Guest | InfoQ Podcast | [Serverless Go and Site Reliability Engineering at Heroku](https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/serverless-go-site-reliability-engineering/) |
| May | Keynote | Keynote speaker | GoGetCommunity 2020 | [Closing Keynote](https://www.gogetcommunity.com/) |
| May | Workshop | Instructor | O'Reilly | [Go Next Steps](https://learning.oreilly.com/live-training/courses/go-next-steps/0636920386711/) |
| May | Workshop | Instructor | O'Reilly | [Serverless Go](https://learning.oreilly.com/live-training/courses/serverless-go/0636920407034/) |
|  | Organizing | Program committee | GopherCon 2020 | Program committee |

### 2019

| Month | Kind | Role | Where | What |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July | Keynote | Keynote speaker | GopherCon 2019 | [Closing Keynote](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pc0bzz4-gM) |
| July | Workshop | Instructor | GopherCon 2019 | Instructor |
|  | Organizing | Program committee | GopherCon 2019 | Program committee |
| January | Talk | Speaker | Columbia AWS | Serverless Lens on AWS Well Architected Framework |

### 2018

| Month | Kind | Role | Where | What |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October | Talk | Speaker | Columbia AWS | Serverless Orchestration on AWS |
| October | Talk | Speaker | Baltimore Innovation Week's Developer Conference | Go, FaaS/Serverless Orchestration |
| August | Talk | Speaker | GopherCon 2018 (Lightning Talks) | Go, FaaS/Serverless on AWS |
| August | Workshop | Instructor | GopherCon 2018 | [Instructor](https://www.gophercon.com/) |

### 2017

| Month | Kind | Role | Where | What |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October | Workshop | Speaker | DevFest MD 2017 Conference | Getting Started with the Go Programming Language |
| September | Workshop | Speaker | Code(Her) Conference 2017 | [Building Serverless Slack Bots with AWS Lambda](http://codeherconference.com/) |
| June | Podcast | Co-host | Go Time | [Adventures in VS Code](https://changelog.com/gotime/49) |
| May | Talk | Speaker | Baltimore Go User Group | Popular Go Libraries |
| April | Talk | Speaker | Capital Go Language Conference 2017 | [Mine the Debt](https://bit.ly/capgominethedebt) |
| March | Podcast | Guest | Hacker Practice Podcast | [Guest](https://justuseapen.com/johnny-boursiquot-on-building-a-software-agency-from-scratch-learning-go-for-rubyists-and-server-less-software-architectures/) |
| March | Podcast | Co-host | Go Time | [Go Developer Survey with Steve Francia](https://changelog.com/gotime/38) |
| February | Press | Featured | New Relic | [Featured](https://blog.newrelic.com/2017/02/16/golang-experts-follow-online/) |
| February | Talk | Speaker | Google Developer Group Baltimore | Go, Quickly |
| February | Workshop | Speaker | Baltimore Go User Group | [Interacting with Databases](https://github.com/jboursiquot/go-database-workshop) |
| January | Podcast | Guest | Go Time | [Discussing Imposter Syndrome (with William Kennedy)](https://changelog.com/gotime/30) |
| January | Workshop | Speaker | Baltimore Go User Group | [Building Web Applications in Go](https://github.com/jboursiquot/go-web-app-workshop) |

### 2016

| Month | Kind | Role | Where | What |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December | Workshop | Speaker | Baltimore Go User Group | Building Chat Bots in Golang |
| November | Workshop | Speaker | Baltimore Go User Group | [Building Command Line Applications with Go](https://github.com/jboursiquot/go-cli-workshop) |
| May | Workshop | Organizer | GoBridge Boston, Boston | Organizer |

### 2015

| Month | Kind | Role | Where | What |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September | Press | Featured | Codeship | [An Inside Look with Codeship](https://youtu.be/j8Lp7W48xDE) |
| September | Workshop | Speaker | Code(Her) Conference 2015 | Programming Fundamentals and Building APIs for Web and Mobile Apps |
| January | Workshop | Speaker | RailsBridge Boston, Boston | [Intro to Ruby for the Non Programmer](https://bit.ly/14Rr7Qv) |

### 2014

| Month | Kind | Role | Where | What |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September | Workshop | Speaker | Code(Her) Conference | [Building APIs for Web and Mobile Apps](http://codeherconference.com/) |
| August | Talk | Panelist | Burlington Ruby Conference | [The Future of Ruby](https://vimeo.com/album/2996485/video/103590400) |
| February | Talk | Speaker | BostonGolang | [Object Oriented Programming in Golang](https://speakerdeck.com/jboursiquot/object-oriented-programming-in-go) |

### 2013

| Month | Kind | Role | Where | What |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June | Talk | Speaker | Launch Academy, Boston | [Building Command Line Tools](https://bit.ly/19htW1C) |
| May | Talk | Speaker | Launch Academy, Boston | [The New Engineer's Survival Guide](https://bit.ly/17TvF9l) |
| May | Talk | Speaker | BostonRB | [Getting Closure: Ruby Blocks, Procs and Lambdas](https://bit.ly/12Ly7LJ) |
| January | Workshop | Speaker | BostonRB | [Defensive Programming in Ruby](https://bit.ly/13WI4Zu) |

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/jboursiquot
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jboursiquot
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- Changelog: https://changelog.com/person/jboursiquot
- Medium: https://medium.com/@jboursiquot