Jos Hendriks
Helping teams build quality software and simplifying complexity | Lead developer | Technical coach | Software architect
's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
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Jos Hendriks is a pragmatic software architect and technical lead. Throughout his career, he has supported diverse teams across high-tech, e-commerce, and construction technology, helping them make sound architectural decisions and implement maintainable, high-quality software.
Jos focuses on guiding and enabling teams to collaboratively create solutions that are practical, scalable, and aligned with business goals. He encourages developers to take ownership of the problems they solve, helping them approach challenges thoughtfully and design software solutions. Jos remains hands-on with code to ensure decisions are grounded in reality, and he actively fosters an environment of learning and growth. He enjoys sharing knowledge, mentoring colleagues, and continuously improving processes and engineering practices.
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Semantic Kernel for Developers: A Hands-On Guide to AI Integration
Getting started with AI can be overwhelming. In this session you'll learn how to connect an LLM to your own code. Step by step we'll cover the basic and more advanced concepts. Each of them supported by code and a demo. Just enough to get a better understanding and to get your started. Going from basic chat to RAG and agentic AI while and maybe you'll learn a bit about metal music too.
Key take aways:
- Integration of AI can be easy
- After the session you'll know about some basic concepts
- What is Semantic Kernel and how do you use it?
- How you can run local (and free) models
Secondary takeaways:
- you might learn something about Aspire
- see the value of open telemetry
45-60 minutes, targeted at developers, leads and architects. Knowning .NET C# is nice but not a must have.
Add AI to your .NET application with Miscrosoft Agent Framework
AI is evolving at a rapid pace, and keeping up with concepts like agentic AI, RAG, MCP, and LLM integration can be challenging, especially when you want to bring these capabilities into an existing .NET application. In this session, we’ll explore how the Microsoft Agent Framework SDK can help simplify that journey and make practical AI integration more accessible.
Through clear explanations, live demos, and step-by-step code, you’ll learn how to connect an LLM to your own application and how the core concepts fit together in real-world scenarios. We’ll dive into topics like RAG and MCP and explore examples ranging from playing music to automatic story point estimation.
By the end of the talk, you’ll have a better understanding of how to move from AI concepts to working solutions you can apply in your own projects.
45-60 minutes, targeted at developers, leads and architects. Examples are in C# .NET but to understand the concepts no C# knowlegde is required.
Shift left on testing with .NET Aspire
Aspire is a great way to get your application up and running together with all the dependencies it needs. But what if you could use that very same setup to run your automated tests as well?
In this session, I’ll show how to set up, run, and debug integrated tests both locally and in a CI/CD pipeline. We’ll cover setting up the depencencies like database creation and API mocking along with ways to isolate your testdata and how Open Telemetry can be used.
A hands-on, practical session that will give you a solid starting point that enables you to leverage Aspire to truly shift left on testing.
Tags: .NET C# Aspire, Testing, mocking,
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