The Go & Cloud Circuit: Second Stop, Bishopsgate

Welcome to another exciting GDG London meetup focused on Kubernetes infrastructure and AI workflow automation!
🚀 For this edition, we’re bringing together community experts for an evening of cloud-native deep dives, Kubernetes database management and modern AI pipelines.
Whether you're running production workloads on Kubernetes or looking to supercharge your workflows with AI models, join us for practical insights, live demonstrations, and networking.
📅 Agenda:

18:00 - Doors Open & Networking

18:30 - Welcome & Intro

18:35 - First session, Goran Minov

19:10 - Second session, Edith Puclla

19:50 - Q&A & Community Updates

20:10 - Networking 👥
Speakers & Talks:

🎙️ Goran Minov - GDE in Cloud AI
📌 Zero Infrastructure, Zero Phishing: Building a Serverless Security Framework on GCP

Commercial spam filters are often "black boxes". Can a developer build a better solution with zero infrastructure?

In this intermediate-level session, I present a custom, event-driven phishing detection framework built entirely on the Google Cloud Platform. We will move beyond high-level concepts and dissect a production-ready architecture where Cloud Run Functions act as the nervous system, Pub/Sub manages the asynchronous data flow, and Gemini provides the intelligence to analyse semantic intent.

This talk is backed by real-world data. I will share the results of this experiment, comparing the "easiness" of the serverless approach against the detection rates achieved. You will see exactly how to chain these services to create a scalable, private security bot that costs pennies to run but delivers impressive results.

Key Takeaways

How to decouple ingestion and analysis using Pub/Sub and Cloud Run Functions.

Practical techniques for using Gemini to identify malicious sentiment and phrasing in emails.

A data-driven look at the cost-effectiveness and accuracy of a custom cloud framework versus traditional methods.

🎙️ Edith Puclla - CNCF Ambassador & Docker Captain
📌 Who Manages Your Database on Kubernetes? Running databases on Kubernetes involves more than deploying containers. How do we handle failures, scaling and ongoing database management?
In this session, we'll explore how Kubernetes Operators extend Kubernetes to automate database operations. We'll introduce Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), controllers, and reconciliation loops, followed by a practical demonstration of an Operator managing a database cluster.
Edith is a Kubernetes 1.32 Shadow Release Team member, UK Global Talent Visa Recipient, CNCF Ambassador, Docker Captain, WTM Ambassador and Ex 42 Silicon Valley alumnus. She actively contributes to open-source ecosystems and frequently speaks globally about Kubernetes, cloud-native tools, and database automation.

See you there!

Agenda

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Speaker

Goran Minov - Okta (Senior Technical Account Manager)

Goran is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Google Cloud (Cloud AI), Cloud AI and Cyber Security Architect.

Currently, he serves as a Senior Technical Account Manager at Okta, helping enterprises automate and secure their identity infrastructure. His passion lies in architecting secure machine learning workflows, deploying autonomous applications via the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platf…

Hosted By

Goran Minov, Regional Technical Strategist | GDE Cloud AI

A Cyber Security Architect, Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Google Cloud: Cloud AI, and Google Cloud Certified Professional holding key credentials, including Professional Cloud Architect, DevOps, and Database Engineer.

Stefan Cornea, GDG Organizer

Chris Bouloumpasis, GDG Organizer

Sara Mita Gabriel, Team Member

Renuka Kelkar, GDG Organizer

Sumith Damodaran, PM / GDG Organizer

Tom Colvin, Organiser

Tom Colvin is CTO of Apptaura, the app development specialists; and founder of Conseal Security, the mobile app security experts. He has been a developer for over 20 years and worked with Android since Cupcake. He is a Google Developer Expert in Android.

Mihaela Peneva,

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Partner

JetBrains (https://www.jetbrains.com/)

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