About us
Welcome to Agile Austin! Keeping Austin Agile, One User Story at a Time.
Agile Austin is the largest group of Agile professionals in the central Texas Area. As a 501c(6) non-profit, we provide and promote gatherings of like-minded individuals in the Austin Area.
Agile Austin’s mission is to connect people and foster professional growth through collaborative events that educate our community on uncovering better ways to deliver value through Agile values, principles, and practices.
Come connect with us, share and collaborate together, and grow through learning from others.
Website -- www.agileaustin.org
YouTube channel -- https://www.youtube.com/@agileaustin1933
Upcoming events
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The Open-Source AI System I Built to Run My Job Search
·OnlineOnlineJoin us for a great program at the Agile Austin Product and AI SIG! Once you sign up, you'll receive an email with a calendar event and Zoom link.
Session Title:
Context Engineering in Practice: The Open-Source AI System I Built to Run My Job SearchAbstract:
Career OS is an LLM-agnostic, open-source career operating system I built after Meta laid me off in March 2026, when three weeks of applications — many carrying internal referrals — produced nothing.It holds my entire career record in plain files and turns it into applications, outreach, and interview prep. Six months in, twenty-one applications carrying a referral produced four screens, thirteen cold applications produced none, and the contract role I'm in now came out of a conversation the system told me to prioritize. I published the repo in August 2026.
This talk is the field report — what it is, what it cost, and my biggest takeaways:
- Compound your gains by turning a writing problem into a selection problem
- The biggest impact wasn't output quality or velocity — it was the emotional weight it took off a search
- The component with the highest return is the one you haven't identified as a gap
- Building with AI, you won't feel a wrong direction the way you would on your own — by hand I'd have known the structure was wrong by step three, and I got to step fourteenhttps://github.com/squashmadoon/career-os
Speaker: Benjamin Nourse Miller
Benjamin has spent 15+ years building and scaling digital products across games, film, and emerging tech — at startups, Hollywood studios, AAA game studios, and big tech. Until March, he ran Store Operations for Meta's Horizon Store, leading a team that supported 300+ external developers across 700+ releases a year. Most of his career has been zero-to-one work: employee #3 at VR studio WEVR, where he helped scale a four-person startup into a $25M-funded VR production studio, and Director of VR Production at 20th Century Fox, where he built their VR studio and publishing pipeline from the ground up. Across it all he has shipped 40+ projects ranging from AAA console games to mobile AR experiences for The Chainsmokers to digital marketing campaigns for film festivals. He's now Head of Publishing at Supernatural on a part-time contract.
linkedin.com/in/benjaminnoursemiller
Slack Community for the Agile Austin Product and AI SIG:
Please contact Matt Roberts ([matt.roberts@agileaustin.org](http://matt.roberts@agileaustin.org/)) or Vishal Sheth ([vishal.sheth@agileaustin.org](http://vishal.sheth@agileaustin.org/)) if you'd like to join our slack community!9 attendees
Agile Austin Book Club: Nexus (3)
·OnlineOnlineWe're reading Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari. This is AI from the perspective of a lauded historian, quite different from all the how-to-AI flooding the market.
We plan to read and discuss through chapter 9 (emphasis on chapters 8 and 9) at our meeting November 5th and conclude our discussion November 19th, but we're agile, we'll take even more time if appropriate. This book is both wide and deep, we're all enjoying it (and being wounded by it) immensely; get a copy and catch up, we promise it'll be worth it.
(The Zoom link is visible right after you register. The link to the Miro discussion board will be posted in the Zoom chat once the meeting is underway.)
Do you have a book to recommend? Please submit this form, so our program committee can consider it.
if you'd like to be on the program (book selection) committee, please contact david.wight@agileaustin.org .
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Remote Process
Our process is in flux -- we're experimenting with new moderation and recording techniques, so please be on time and please be patient. And expect a call for participation -- we want this to be your book club.
Discussion Notes
for this and all our books may be found here. Notes are open to comment by anyone (please do!) and you'll also find how to get REIMBURSEMENT for books and the READING LIST for possible future books. (Discussion notes may or may not be taken in future -- we're experimenting to see what's valuable.)
About Book Club
We meet most months the 1st and 3rd Thursdays, so you can put that in your calendar. When and if we resume physical meetings we'll feed you, and if you participate in most of the sessions, we'll even reimburse you for the book, so save that receipt.
We have not recorded Book Club sessions in the past, but that could change:
Recording Disclosure
"AgileAustin has the right to record any hosted event which includes, but is not limited to, Special Interest Groups (SIGs), Monthly Meetings, Conferences, and special events. By registering for, or attending an Agile Austin hosted event, you are giving AgileAustin consent to record and post recorded content containing your image, voice and name at a minimum, online. For remote events, you have the option to turn off your camera, mute your microphone and hide your name."
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Unleashing Micro-Entrepreneurialism with AI
·OnlineOnlineJoin us for a great program at the Agile Austin Product and AI SIG! Once you sign up, you'll receive an email with a calendar event and Zoom link.
Session Title:
Unleashing Micro-Entrepreneurialism with AIAbstract:
The convergence of serverless cloud infrastructure and advanced artificial intelligence has fundamentally dismantled the traditional barriers of entry for independent business builders. Today, a single technical professional can architect, deploy, and scale a lean operation that once required an entire team.This session explores why the current technological landscape makes it the optimal moment for software practitioners and technologists to transition into micro-entrepreneurialism. Attendees will discover how to harness modern cloud ecosystems for near-zero-overhead scalability and utilize AI agents and generative tools to automate operational workflows, content creation, and product development. Join us for a pragmatic look at how to leverage your existing technical acumen to build resilient, highly leveraged, and autonomous revenue streams in the modern era.
Speaker: Lee Fox
Lee Fox is a seasoned software development manager and cloud architect with over 30 years of experience building, scaling, and leading technical systems. During his time at Amazon as a Partner Solutions Architect, Lee helped AWS partners successfully architect, launch, and grow their businesses on the cloud. A passionate technologist and builder, he currently explores the bleeding edge of AI development and automation through his work with Bar None Labs. Deeply committed to the local tech community, Lee previously served as the Technology Chair for Agile Austin.
Slack Community for the Agile Austin Product and AI SIG:
Please contact Matt Roberts ([matt.roberts@agileaustin.org](http://matt.roberts@agileaustin.org/)) or Vishal Sheth ([vishal.sheth@agileaustin.org](http://vishal.sheth@agileaustin.org/)) if you'd like to join our slack community!15 attendeesAgile Austin Book Club: Nexus (4)
·OnlineOnlineWe're reading Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari. This is AI from the perspective of a lauded historian, quite different from all the how-to-AI flooding the market.
We plan to read and discuss through chapter 9 (emphasis on chapters 8 and 9) at our meeting November 5th and conclude our discussion November 19th, but we're agile, we'll take even more time if appropriate. This book is both wide and deep, we're all enjoying it (and being wounded by it) immensely; get a copy and catch up, we promise it'll be worth it.
(The Zoom link is visible right after you register. The link to the Miro discussion board will be posted in the Zoom chat once the meeting is underway.)
Do you have a book to recommend? Please submit this form, so our program committee can consider it.
if you'd like to be on the program (book selection) committee, please contact david.wight@agileaustin.org .
——
Remote Process
Our process is in flux -- we're experimenting with new moderation and recording techniques, so please be on time and please be patient. And expect a call for participation -- we want this to be your book club.
Discussion Notes
for this and all our books may be found here. Notes are open to comment by anyone (please do!) and you'll also find how to get REIMBURSEMENT for books and the READING LIST for possible future books. (Discussion notes may or may not be taken in future -- we're experimenting to see what's valuable.)
About Book Club
We meet most months the 1st and 3rd Thursdays, so you can put that in your calendar. When and if we resume physical meetings we'll feed you, and if you participate in most of the sessions, we'll even reimburse you for the book, so save that receipt.
We have not recorded Book Club sessions in the past, but that could change:
Recording Disclosure
"AgileAustin has the right to record any hosted event which includes, but is not limited to, Special Interest Groups (SIGs), Monthly Meetings, Conferences, and special events. By registering for, or attending an Agile Austin hosted event, you are giving AgileAustin consent to record and post recorded content containing your image, voice and name at a minimum, online. For remote events, you have the option to turn off your camera, mute your microphone and hide your name."
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