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Heather Downing is a developer advocate and 7x Microsoft MVP focused on AI, data, security and C#/.NET. She has experience building enterprise voice, mobile and .NET applications and is active in developer-community speaking and mentorship.
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Heather Downing is a Developer Advocate at Yugabyte (and founder of VennApps) who pairs hands-on distributed-systems and AI-agent practice with clear, narrative-driven talks — recent sessions range from AI agent authorization frameworks (using the real Replit production-database wipe as a cautionary tale) to the failure modes of distributed databases, making her relevant to engineers building or scaling AI-driven data systems.
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GitHub
@Quorralyne- Quorralyne/LCARS-Alexa-Skill-WebAPI★ 12Alexa skill built with C# Web API using an LCARS (Star Trek) theme
- Quorralyne/Alexa-WebAPI-Workshop★ 5Workshop code for building Alexa skills with Web API
- Quorralyne/DeLoreanMonitoring★ 4IoT monitoring project in C#
- Quorralyne/AzureFunctionPOSTTrigger★ 2Azure Function POST trigger sample
Recent writing (2)
- Get Started with Meko: Agent Memory with Built-in Discernment · blog · Jun 2026
- YugabyteDB Joins Google's MCP Toolbox for AI Agent Development · blog · Nov 2025