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June 2026 Meetup

In the past 10 years, I've mentored several really amazing young humans. I'm also a product of a lot of informal mentoring. Let me opine on what I've learned being on both sides of the desk and my general advice to anyone, regardless of your goals. We'll talk about:

  • How I got here
  • My general advice and how I set the stage in the first session
  • Reputation Management
  • Social Currency
  • Being the Example

May 2026 Meetup

This talk is the story of how a small idea grew into a real, working social platform built around tiny 300-character posts. We built it mostly out of curiosity- using Python, a bit of GenAI, and a lot of trial and error. Along the way, we learned what actually matters when you're building something for real people, not just for yourself.

April 2026 Meetup

In October 2025, Python 3.14 was released and with it a cool new way to create t-strings, which promise to help python developers write better, and safer python code. While on the surface, they share a similar name to f-strings, the way we use them is quite different. This talk explores what they are, how they work, who they are for and how they will help python developers write safer code.

March 2026 Meetup

In an era where enterprises generate massive, complex streams of unstructured data from documents and logs to images, audio, and video, traditional search and analytics fall short. This session explores a transformative, production-ready framework for Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), designed to redefine how organizations unlock insights from every data modality. Discover how an intelligent agent, built using cutting-edge encoders and composable AI models, empowers organizations to understand, retrieve, and reason over diverse information in real time.

February 2026 Meetup

Merge Conflicts in software programming occur in 20% of all merges in open-source projects, incurring a median resolution time of ~6 minutes for a single conflict at best, or multiple days at worst. This talk will touch upon LLM Evaluations, Azure OpenAI Fine-Tuning, AI-generated resolution explanations, and usage of multiple Python SDKs to craft a scalable LLM-powered Merge Conflict Resolver. Our results indicate up to 125% performance improvement over vanilla LLM resolution accuracy.

January 2026 Meetup

Learn how to maintain code quality without sacrificing performance. This presentation explores SAST, SCAT, and SCA concepts, then introduces modern tools like Ruff and Pyright that make formatting, linting, and type checking simple and almost instantaneous.

December 2025 Meetup

Python Decorators are a cool, pythonic way to inject context into your Python code. In this talk we'll walk through some interesting ways to leverage them and a couple places where you're better off not using them.