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GDG Sydney Meetup August 2025

Mantel Group, 580 George Street, Sydney, 2000

GDG Cloud Sydney

The GDG Sydney Meetup will be back in August! Join us for an evening of interesting technical talks. We have some dedicated time if you're recruiting for a role or seeking one. Don't forget to come along and promote/share.

Aug 6, 7:30 – 10:00 AM (UTC)

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About this event

GDG Cloud Sydney is back for a meetup this August! Join us for an evening of interesting technical talks.

Come Hire!

The meetup allocates 10 minutes to people seeking technical jobs or with open roles at their company.

This meetup is in the in-person format; there are no plans to stream the event.

Partners

This meetup is organised in partnership with Mantel Group. They harness technologies that transform business operations in the real world. With capabilities spanning Cloud, Data, Digital and Security, they merge emerging technologies with innovative design and industry expertise to enhance your business. With deep technical specialisation and as leading Amazon, Google and Microsoft cloud partners, the depth and breadth our solutions offer is unparalleled. Mantel Group is your partner for end-to-end digital transformation.

Ranked in Australia's top 10 Best Workplaces by Great Place To Work Australia for four years in a row, we are people-focused and uphold strong values. Our culture champions trust, empowerment, and diversity with a lean structure emphasizing collaboration, direct communication, and equity.

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"Dented Code teaches coding skills that you need to become a full stack developer and help you advance your career, pursue your dream job, or enjoy the freedom of life as a freelancer." - Learn more on their website.

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We will also give out two 1-year subscriptions from JetBrains  to any of JetBrains' IDEs in a raffle. You can use the 100% discount code on CLion, DataGrip, DataSpell, GoLand, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, PhpStorm, PyCharm, ReSharper, ReSharper C++, Rider, RubyMine, WebStorm, or dotUltimate.

Talks

Talk 1: Why Go? From the lens of a polyglot developer

As a developer who has worked across multiple languages and ecosystems, I’ve seen the strengths and quirks of many tools firsthand. This talk dives into Go not from documentation or hype, but from the practical lens of a polyglot developer who has used it in real-world projects. We'll explore what makes Go compelling—its concurrency model, simplicity, and deployment story—as well as where it might fall short compared to other languages.

We'll take a practical look at why Go was chosen for cloud services, internal tools, and distributed systems. You'll hear honest insights on where Go shines, where it doesn't, and how it fits into a modern polyglot tech stack.

About the speaker - Nanik Tolaram

Nanik is a prolific coder and active open-source contributor with expertise across a broad range of languages, including C, C++, Java, Go, and Python. He is a recognised authority in Android customisation for niche and vertical markets, having presented at the Sydney Android User Group and contributed as an Android Platform Technical Writer for ODROID Magazine. With a strong background in the finance and investment sectors, Nanik has co-authored "Becoming a Full Stack Go Developer". He is also the author of "Software Development with Go: Cloud-Native Programming using Golang with Linux and Docker"


Talk 2: Ending the Silo Saga: Unifying Your Digital Workspace with Agentspace

We've all lived that nightmare: the answer is buried in Confluence, the data is in Salesforce, and the key discussion is lost in a Slack thread. It’s a huge drag on productivity.

In this talk, I’ll introduce you to Google Agentspace. I'll show you how it acts as the ultimate peacemaker in the war between our apps, creating a single, intelligent layer over your existing tools. We’ll look at how it doesn't just find information, but actually connects the dots between different systems to finally give us that truly integrated workspace we've been promised.

Event Schedule

5:30pm - Event doors open

5:45pm - Introduction and hiring connect for those hiring/wanting to be hired (5 mins for each group, and every individual gets 1 min max)

6:00pm -  Why Go? From the lens of a polyglot developer - Nanik Tolaram

6:45pm - Ending the Silo Saga: Unifying Your Digital Workspace with Agentspace - Adhish Panta

7:30pm - Raffle for the 2 JetBrains IDE licenses

8:00pm - Event end

When

When

Wednesday, August 6, 2025
7:30 AM – 10:00 AM (UTC)

Hosts

  • Roshan Ghale

    Practifi

    Software Engineer

  • Reeya Maharajan

    The Butcher's Block Group

    Junior Developer

  • Gary Lou

    GDSC USYD

    AI/ML Technical Lead

  • Sajan Shrestha

  • Shasanka Acharya

  • Shital Shrestha

  • Swapni Chhatre

  • Adhish Panta

    Endava

    Senior SME - Google Cloud

Partners

Mantel Group logo

Mantel Group

JetBrains logo

JetBrains

Dented Code logo

Dented Code

Organizers

  • Reeya Maharjan

  • Shital Shrestha

    Community Organiser

  • Rohit Maharjan

    Community Organiser

  • Sajan Shrestha

    Community organiser

  • Shasanka Acharya

    Community Organiser

  • Adhish Panta

    Community Organiser

  • Ryan Snowden

    Mantel Group

    Community Organiser

  • Katharine Russell

    TikTok

    Software Engineer

  • Gary Lou

    Community organiser

  • Kunal Ostwal

    University of Sydney

  • Luke Moody

    Cleer Consulting

    Founder

  • Roshan Ghale

    Practifi

    Community organiser

  • Geshan Manandhar

    Simply Wall St.

    Community organiser

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