Meetup: Backend Engineers Meet AI

Hola a todos!

Estamos felices de anunciar nuestro próximo meetup 🎉, donde nos encontraremos a compartir conocimiento, aprender y conocer nuevas personas. ¡No te lo pierdas! En esta ocasión tendremos dos charlas imperdibles para backend engineers que quieren pasar de CRUD APIs a IA 🚀. Con expertos de Thoughtful AI y Mercado Libre, exploraremos inteligencia artificial aplicada en proyectos reales 🤗

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• JetBridge https://jetbridge.com/ 💛
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➡️ Level Up: From CRUD APIs to AI Agents
Description:
Your backend experience already prepares you for the next step. In this talk, you’ll discover how to transform your knowledge of Python and FastAPI into a fully functional AI agent. You’ll learn how to integrate RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), PostgreSQL with PgVector, Docker, and Docker Compose to build a solid and scalable architecture. We’ll create a model-agnostic AI Agent, capable of working with both OpenAI and Anthropic models, leveraging the best of each ecosystem.
Por: Andres Duque H – Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer at Thoughtful AI.

🧠 With nearly a decade of experience building microservices, event-driven architectures, and highly scalable applications, Andrés now focuses on next-generation AI agents powered by Python, FastAPI, and vector databases — working in the healthcare industry in the United States.

➡️ Root Cause Detection in UX Error Incidents: Classification Modeling at Mercado Pago
Description:
In this session, we’ll explore how Mercado Pago’s Digital Accounts team built a classification model to identify root causes behind UX-related incidents in transfer operations. This project integrates data engineering, backend, and machine learning principles to improve reliability within the MELI payments ecosystem.
Por: Sergio Andres Manrique Murillo – Sr. Software Engineer
🧠 With extensive experience in data engineering, backend development, and applied machine learning, Sergio currently works at Mercado Libre within the Mercado Pago business unit. His work focuses on incident troubleshooting and pattern analysis in transfer processes to enhance MELI’s ecosystem reliability.