Golang Developer Meetup

A Golang Meetup designed for developers and tech professionals, featuring three focused talks from experienced software engineers on Go best practices, industry use cases, and lessons learned from production environments. The evening concludes with open networking, offering an opportunity to connect with fellow Go enthusiasts and expand your professional network.

Agenda

5:30 PM: Check-in & Coffee

AST is powerful out of the box. Learn how to use it effectively, apply it to real projects, and simplify testing along the way.

6:00 PM: How does the Golang AST parser work?

6:45 PM: The Lies We Tell Ourselves About Performance

Speed is the ultimate expression of respect. This talk shares five lessons learned the hard way building high-performance systems in Go—from GC tuning to lock contention to the hidden cost of channels.

7:30 PM: How Go Manages Memory

Stack and heap explained simply, then how Go uses both behind the scenes to decide where your variables live.

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Speakers

Ilya Gorkun - Tabby (Senior Golang engineer)

Yasser Sinjab - HudHud Maps (Principal Software Engineer)

Software engineer with extensive experience as a hands-on programmer (primarily in Go, Python, C#) and a passion for working on large-scale systems, data products, or machine learning projects.

Mohamed Mirghani - Thmanyah (Senior Software Engineer)

Hosted By

Mais Alheraki, Lead

Afnan Hamid, Lead

Project Management Specialist | PMP | PBA | GCDCSaudi Leader | Ambassador in WTM

Nawal Alhamwi, Jeddah Lead

Hadi Alsinan, Lead

Ahmad Alrajeh, Lead

Bashayer alrumahi, Lead

Ashwaq Alawoor, Western Lead

Hadi Al-Marzooq, Organizer

driven by purpose

Farah Al Safwan, Organizer

Ahmad Al Nasser, Organizer

Yasser Al Zahrani, Public Relations

Ahmed Alkhaldi, Event Marketing Co-lead

I'm Ahmed Al-Khaldi, a computer science student at Jazan University with focused expertise in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.

• Technical training from KAUST and T2 in AI/security integration
• Hands-on experience developing secure clustering models and IoT authentication systems
• Leadership as founder of CyberGuard community and head of technical committees
• Experience presenting tech workshops at major Saudi universities

Khaled Alaodi, Marketing and Designing Lead

Lama Khalid **, Designing Co-Lead

Ibrahim M. Alnabhan, Speaker Coordination

Abdullah M. Alrefai, Speaker Coordination Lead

Sultan Alotaibi **, Lead Volunteers Organization

Turki Faisal, Application Developer

Safia Nizam,

GDG Organizer
Western Leader

Bader Bin Faleh, Organizer lead

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Partner

Tabby (https://tabby.ai/)

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Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-saudi-presents-golang-developer-meetup/.