About David Burela

Senior Technical Evangelist at Microsoft Australia

Previously:
Beijing General Manager & Solutions architect for SSW.
Microsoft MVP for Windows Azure.
Regional Technical Evangelist for Infragistics.

I focus on Microsoft Azure, Windows 10 and Xamarin. But most recently I have been focusing on working with the BlockChain.

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/davidburela
Twitter: http://twitter.com/DavidBurela
Email: David.Burela(AT)gmail.com

I released my 1st book on Windows Azure & Silverlight integration for enterprise applications https://davidburela.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/my-first-book-has-been-published-azure-silverlight-integration/

Have completed a Bachelor of Computer Science, a Masters of Computer Science and a MBA (Masters of Business Administration). I use this unique mixture technology and business degrees to look at software in a different way.

An old post of things i’ve done in the dev community https://davidburela.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/my-community-involvement-in-the-last-2-years/

Presentations

• Hobart .Net usergroup – Web services introduction (2006)
• Hobart .Net usergroup – SQL integration services (2006)
• Australian computer society – Young IT careers forum speaker (2006)
• Hobart .Net usergroup – Vista & office 2007 (Feb 2007)
• Hobart .Net usergroup – .Net Micro framework (September 2007)
• Hobart .Net usergroup – SOAK (May 2008)
• Vic.Net usergroup – SOAK (May 2008)
• Readify Developer Network – Windows Azure (Nov 2008)
• Vic.Net usergroup – Intro to .Net 3.5: WPF & Workflow (Dec 2008)
• Schools of the Future summit – How schools helped prepare me for innovation (Feb 2009)
• Codecamp Australia – Artificial life in the cloud, with Windows Azure (April 2009)
• Bushfire fundraising training day – Volunteered as a WPF trainer for the day, created content (May 2009)
• Remix Australia – Intro to Windows Azure (June 2009)
• Vic.Net usergroup – Databinding with the Bing Maps silverlight control (October 2009)
• MOSSIG – By 2020 will all software be running in the cloud? (December 2009)
• Silverlight code camp – Using Windows Azure to scale your Silverlight Applications (January 2010)
• Melbourne xRM usergroup – Using Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Azure (June 2010)
• Hobart .Net usergroup – Introduction to Windows Azure and cloud computing (July 2010)
• Victoria.Net usergroup – Windows Phone 7 UI Guidelines (August 2010)
• Alt.Net Melbourne – Introduction to Windows Phone 7 (August 2010)
• SDDN Melbourne – Using Azure to dynamically generate Silverlight Pivot collections (September 2010)
• Mobile SIG Melbourne – Introduction to Windows Phone 7 (October 2010)
• Dev Evenings Melbourne – Distributed Version Control Systems & NuGet (April 2011)
• DDD Melbourne – New development workflow (May 2011)
• DDD Sydney – New development workflow (July 2011)
• XDDN Melbourne – Windows 8 Developer preview (Sep 2011)
• XDDN Melbourne – Windows 8 Consumer preview (March 2012)
• XDDN Melbourne – WinRT programming (March 2012)
• Windows 8 developer camp Melbourne – Listboxes & Databinding (March 2012)
• Windows 8 developer camp Melbourne – Contracts: Search & Share (March 2012)
• Windows 8 developer camp Hobart – Listboxes & Databinding (May 2012)
• Windows 8 developer camp Hobart – Contracts: Search & Share (May 2012)
• XDDN Melbourne – Developing with Windows 8 live tiles (May 2012)
• Windows 8 developer camp Canberra – Listboxes & Databinding (May 2012)
• Windows 8 developer camp Canberra – Contracts: Search & Share (May 2012)
• DDD Sydney – Windows 8 101: XAML + ViewModels (June 2012)
• Windows 8 App finishing camp (June 2012)
• Mobile Mondays Melbourne – My experience with Windows Phone platform (July 2012)
• DDD Melbourne – Using GitHub for opensource projects
• DDD Melbourne – Windows 8 101: XAML + ViewModels (July 2012)
• XDDN Melbourne – Windows 8 development 101: XAML, Binding & ViewModels (September 2012)
• TechEd Australia – DEV214: What’s new for Windows 8 Devs Part 2 (September 2012)
• Mobile Mondays Melbourne – Windows Phone 8 (December 2012)
• Windows Azure / Windows 8 / Windows Phone app fest (March 2013)
• Bizspark Azure camp – Sydney (June 2013)
• Bizspark Azure camp – Melbourne (June 2013)
• TechEd Australia – Adding Speech functionality to Windows Phone applications (September 2013)
• TechEd Australia – Windows Phone Services (September 2013)
• TechEd Australia – Cross Platform development for Windows 8 / Windows Phone 8 developers (September 2013)
• Azure web camp – Melbourne full day training (March 2014)
• Azure web camp – Brisbane full day training (March 2014)
• Azure web camp – Melbourne full day training (May 2014)
• Azure web camp – Sydney full day training (May 2014)
• Azure web camp – Sydney #2 full day training (May 2014)
• Azure web camp – Brisbane full day training (June 2014)
• Dev Super Powers – Getting Started With ASP.NET MVC5 & Azure websites (June 2014)
• Dev Super Powers – Adding Web API to your ASP .NET website (July 2014)
• Dev Super Powers – Getting Started with SignalR (August 2014)
• Xamarin hack day Beijing – Getting started with Xamarin.Forms (October 2014)
• Beijing MVP open day – Intro to Azure Websites (October 2014)
• Azure web camp – Melbourne full day training (November 2014)
• Azure web camp – Melbourne #2 full day training (Nov 2014)
• Dev Super Powers – Xamarin.Forms & MVVM (April 2015)
• Azure web camp – Melbourne full day training (September 2015)
• Video recording – Using Windows 10 iOS bridge to convert Canabalt to Windows 10 in under 5 minutes (Feb 2016)
• Melbourne Chatbot – Microsoft Bot Framework & LUIS (June 2016)
• DDD by Night – Microsoft Bot Framework & LUIS (July 2016)
• Melbourne Blockchain – Devcon 2 summary & Azure BaaS (Oct 2016)
• Brisbane Blockchain – Azure BaaS (Oct 2016)
• Melbourne Azure – Introduction to Blockchain & Azure Baas (Nov 2016)
• Microsoft Ignite – Introduction to Blockchain & Azure Baas (Feb 2017)
• Microsoft Ignite – Getting started with Blockchain development (Feb 2017)
• Ethereum Melbourne – Getting started with Blockchain development (May 2017)
• RegHack Down Under – Getting started with Blockchain development (May 2017)
• Sydney Blockchain Technology Conference – Blockchain development on Azure Blockchain as a Service (June 2017)
• NDC Sydney – Blockchain is Cyberpunk (Sep 2017)
• Latrobe University – 2 hour guest lecture on Blockchain (Sep 2017)
• GPAC – Blockchain for gaming (Oct 2017)
• NDC London – Democratising AI for everyone (Jan 2018)
• Digital Innovation Festival – Blockchain is disrupting industries (Aug 2018)
• NDC Sydney – Attributes of a good Blockchain project (Sep 2018)
• NDC Sydney – Democratising AI for everyone (Sep 2018)
• Pub Conf – What the Block?!? (Sep 2018)
• + many more i’ve forgotten