Barry Stahl

Solution Architect and Developer

October 28-30, 2026Oakland University, Rochester, MI

About Barry

Barry (he/him/his) is a .NET Software Engineer who has been creating business solutions for enterprise customers for more than 30 years. Barry is also a Microsoft MVP, an Election Integrity Activist, baseball and hockey fan, husband of one genius and father of another, and a 40+ year resident of Phoenix Arizona USA. When Barry is not traveling around the world to speak at Conferences, Code Camps and User Groups or to participate in GiveCamps, he spends his days as a Solution Architect for enterprise customers and his nights thinking about the next Arizona GiveCamp, an annual event where software developers come together to build websites and apps for some great non-profit organizations.

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Workshops

WorkshopIntermediate8 hr 5 min

LLMs Under the Hood - Applied Engineering Workshop

Prompting is only one layer of useful AI. Once an LLM feature reaches real users, the engineering questions move from prompts to behavior, context, risk, and reliability. "LLMs Under the Hood - Applied Engineering Workshop" lets Barry Stahl connect tokens, embeddings, transformers, RAG, and responsible design to the engineering choices behind reliable LLM applications.

Topic: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Time: Oct 28, 2026, 9:00 AM
Room: Room B

Conference Sessions

Conference SessionIntermediate60 min

Amazing Algorithms for Solving Problems in Software

Not every software problem needs another neural network. Nature-inspired algorithms can solve certain engineering problems elegantly when teams know where they fit. Barry Stahl brings that perspective into "Amazing Algorithms for Solving Problems in Software", focusing on algorithms that help developers reason through real software problems instead of reaching for the trendiest tool.

Topic: Software Engineering and Architecture
Time: Oct 30, 2026, 1:15 PM
Room: Room C