Join us for our upcoming meetup on Thursday, 9th of Oct, 2025, at 7pm at the Waterford Treasures Museum (X91 K10E). Enjoy an evening of engaging talks, networking opportunities, food, drinks, and exciting spot prizes as we delve into innovative ideas shaping the technology landscape.
Speaker 1: Zohaib Jabbar – CTO (Fund Recs)
Zohaib Jabbar is the CTO at Fund Recs, where he has led the evolution of the company’s SaaS platform over the past nine years. With a background spanning enterprise software engineering, research, and data integration consulting, Zohaib brings deep expertise in designing scalable, secure, and efficient systems. He holds a degree in Computer Science and a certificate in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Limerick, and his career includes roles at NYU Abu Dhabi, TSSG, and Teradata
Tech Talk: Flexible, Scalable, Lean Reporting Engine Integration
Join us as we share Fund Recs’ journey of integrating Apache Superset into SaaS platform. We’ll share how we enabled near real-time reporting, kept data secure, and delivered the flexibility and scalability our clients needed — all while staying extremely resource-efficient. We’ll cover the key technical decisions, the obstacles we faced, and how we navigated constraints to deliver a solution that has become a key part of our offering and continues to create immense value for our customers.
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Speaker 2: Richard Rodger CEO (Voxgig)
Richard Rodger, the founder and CEO of voxgig, is dedicated to merging exceptional software development with practical business solutions. A coder at heart, Richard channels his deep understanding of technology into solving complex business challenges. Under his leadership, voxgig has introduced innovative products, including a comprehensive event management system, a popular weekly newsletter for tech speakers, and specialized training courses in public speaking. Richard is also an accomplished author, with his latest book, The Tao of Microservices, published by Manning, and he shares his entrepreneurial insights through his weekly 'Startup Diary' column in the Irish Independent.
Tech Talk: A New Open Source SDK Generator
Driven by our own pain writing integration code for Voxgig clients, trying to get an inconsistent mix of vendor SDKs and direct API calls to be reliable, quick to implement, and easy to debug and observe, we decided to build an SDK generator that is “developers first”.
“Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowchart; it’ll be obvious.” -- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month (1975)
Taking inspiration from this famous insight, our SDK generator reduces any API to a list of semantic entities with well-defined properties. And that’s it. Now, any integration that you do works the same way, is configured the same way, and can be debugged the same way.
You can have plugins for things like OpenTelemetry that just work, for every API. You can have plugins that let you do offline unit testing no more mocks!), for every API. Need to introspect the actual HTTP traffic? No more messing about with WireShark. Want a universal retry policy to meet your SLA? There you go. Need to wangle some AI? A consistent code pattern makes that much easier.
We’ve been battle testing this idea for the last five years and now we’re open sourcing it!
