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This event is hosted at the Mantel Group Office, with the recording of the talks to be shared afterwards on YouTube if you can't make it.

There will be food, networking and some surprise swag!

Agenda:

6:20 - Intro

6:30 - Talks

8:00 till late - networking & chat (& drinks optional)

Speakers and Talks:

Talk 1: Katie Barnett, Engineering Manager @ Bilue| Google Developer Expert for Android | GDG Melbourne Co-Organiser | Women TechMakers Melbourne Ambassador

What's New on Android

Talk 2: Tulsi Sapkota, Senior Software Engineer @ Linktree

Replace Yourself with Agents

How we built an agent that monitors our Buildkite pipelines, reasons about inefficiencies, and raises PRs to fix it. A practical story about trust, confidence thresholds, and what happens when the agent is better at your job than you are.

Talk 3: Saugato Paroi, IT Support Engineer @ PageUp

Building AutoCloud: How I turned "why is deploying so hard?" into an AI-powered platform.

It started with a frustration every developer knows — you build something that works beautifully on your machine, then hit a wall of IAM roles, Terraform files, networking configs, and CI/CD pipelines just to get it live. I watched that gap kill momentum for too many projects, including my own. So I decided to build the tool I wished existed. AutoCloud is an AI-powered platform that takes a local project or Git repo and turns it into a production-ready cloud deployment — no deep infrastructure expertise required. In this talk, I'll walk you through the journey: the problem that sparked it, the architectural decisions, the hard lessons, and how AI made it all possible.

How to find us:

Doors open at 5:45 PM at our host the Mantel Group, Level 2/452 Flinders St, Melbourne. Message via Meetup or Slack if you are arriving after 6:00, as the lifts won't let you up. 

This is an in-person only event. If you have any accessibility requirements, please reach out via the Meetup or Slack to the organiser group to discuss, and we will do our best to help you out.