Mar 24, 2025
Per is an experienced software architect and developer with more than 19 years of experience in designing, developing, and testing software. He is currently serving as a Distinguished software developer at Delegate, a Microsoft Partner in Denmark.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:02] More about Per’s background in nearly two decades in .NET and Azure consulting.
[6:11] The concept of a boutique consultant.
[7:00] Founding ATC-Net to share common .NET libraries and avoid duplicative coding.
[10:02] Building trust with customers by open-sourcing “generic” components.
[11:50] Creating a connector to run Olama (local LLMs) with Semantic Kernel.
[20:08] Why Per “fell in love” with Semantic Kernel’s abstraction layers and extension possibilities.
[21:44] The role of vector stores (like Azure Cognitive Search) in retrieval-augmented generation.
[24:33] What do we mean by “vector” in the AI space?
[26:39] What is a “text chunker”?
[31:43] Azure AI search.
[34:07] Finding the right tool for the right task.
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