Michael Szul has spent two decades in software engineering in industries as diverse as insurance, energy, travel, and higher education, including consulting with companies such as AIG and Conde Naste. He has worked in both application and product development, as well as framework creation, code generation, API building, and machine learning. Szul is a blogger, podcaster, and Microsoft MVP, and he publishes the monthly Bots and Beer email newsletter. Currently, he is the principal software engineer for the University of Virginia's School of Medicine. You can reach him on Twitter @szul, or at https://codepunk.io.