Vibing Open Payments with Functional Programming

Keen to make payments as simple as sending an email? Want to level-up your coding and learn proper Functional Programming? Eager to use AI and, dare I say, vibe coding, to supercharge your engineering productivity while maintaining best practices? Then come along to the University of Cape Town's Lower Campus on Thursday 26 June at 18:00 for our first live event of 2025, and our first-ever collaboration with the Cape Town Software Development meetup 🎉 There will be food aplenty and, as always, quality swag up for grabs 🎁 Brought to you by the lovely folks at Interledger Foundation and our other partners.

Agenda

18:00-18:30 Registration and networking
18:30-18:45 Intro to event and hosts
18:45-19:30 Functional Programming: The secret ingredient to payments
19:30-20:00 Food and networking
20:00-20:30 The business of doing business with Interledger
20:30-21:00 How I vibe AI coding
21:00+ Raffles & networking

About the talks

Functional Programming: The secret ingredient to payments
Robert Wood, Senior Clojure Engineer, stub

Discover how a functional programming mindset can help you to innovate, adapt, and thrive in a competitive payments landscape. I'll offer valuable insights to help developers and teams rethink their approach to modern software challenges.

The Business Of Doing Business With Interledger
Timea Nagy, Engineering Manager, ILF
Nathan Lie, Typescript Developer, ILF

Learn about how Interledger can advance digital payments and the people and organizations bringing it to life, all by making payments as easy as sending an email.

How I vibe AI coding
George S van Heerden, Lead Full Stack Engineer, xgmi.com

AI coding tools have transformed software development, and in this talk we'll explore ways to use them well, pitfalls to avoid, and where vibe coding fits in. In the end, you'll be a better software engineer.

About the speakers

Rob has a background in computer science and computer engineering, paired with a passion for exploration and adventure. When he’s not at work, he’s likely scaling mountains, tackling ultra runs, or trying to make his perfect cup of coffee. A lifelong tinkerer, Rob channels his curiosity into software and hardware projects, always seeking to expand his skills and push the limits of his comfort zone.

Timea has been a software developer for many years, mainly passionate about developing frontend and user experience. She has been part of the interesting world of Interledger since the end of 2022. Together with her team, she has built the Interledger Test Network to help people better understand the possibilities of Open Payments. Her passion is travelling, discovering as much as possible about this wonderful world we live in. Her flex is that she has travelled to all 7 continents.

Nathan is a software developer who has been working on technologies built on Interledger since 2018. He now focuses on directly contributing to Interledger and Open Payments, hoping to lower the barriers for financial participation in global communities.

George is a self-taught software developer who loves clean code and can’t stand inconsistency. He believes any problem is solvable, if you can afford the AWS bill. Outside of coding, he spends his time birdwatching, hunting, and fishing.