API Athens #B2

Name: API Athens #B2
Start: 2024-05-14T18:00:00+03:00
End: 2024-05-14T21:30:00+03:00
Location: MORO TECHNOLOGY

Hosted By

Christos G. and Alexandros K.

Details

We are pleased to announce the second event of the API Athens meetup,

Join us as members of our community who have worked extensively on APIs share their experiences, their challenges, and how they overcame them.

Special thanks to Moro Tech for sponsoring and hosting this event.

Arrival - 18:00

Talk #1 - 18:15
From CSV Chaos to Stripe Success: A Startup's Journey

In this presentation, we'll explore Wealthyhood's journey in building a revenue engine: starting small but fast with an MVP that involved manual work, to the current robust solution with Stripe. We'll share insights into how we tackled this challenge on the technical side of this journey - transitioning from manual processes into complex architectures - as well as how we refined our processes around feature development that support our daily ships.

Pavlos Kosmetatos is a software engineer with around 7 years of engineering experience, focused mainly on backend & API development. Currently, he is working as a full-stack team lead at Wealthyhood, a DIY wealth-building app for long-term investors. His professional journey includes roles at Shazam and Apple, where he was focused mainly on building the microservices & APIs behind the Shazam app.

Panagiotis Kakalis is a software engineer with a strong focus on backend development and API integration. With valuable experience in both the video streaming industry and his current role at Wealthyhood, a DIY wealth-building app for long-term investors. Additionally, he is a co-host of Greece's #1 podcast for young entrepreneurship, Hustle Hours podcast.

Talk #2 - 19:00
Consuming GenAI APIs with Quarkus

Come to this talk to find out how Quarkus embraces the AI/LLM universe by integrating with the popular LangChain4j library, and get ideas for crafting your own intelligent applications!

Georgios Andrianakis works for Red Hat as a Principal Software Engineer and is currently one of the the most active contributors for Quarkus, where he works in all sorts of areas, including but not limited to REST, AI, Testing. He is also an enthusiastic promoter of Quarkus that never misses a chance to spread the Quarkus love!

Networking - 19:45
Enjoy pizzas and drinks provided by our sponsor.

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