[HYBRID] January Golang Meetup
Details
Hello Gophers,
Welcome back for another year of Go talks and networking!
Link to the live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtGgh85opQg
Would your company like to host our meetup? Let us know!
If you'd like to give a talk - submit your proposals here: http://goo.gl/forms/54YvJT223F
All talk formats work: short talks (5-10 min) as well as regular length (25 min).
If you have more ideas - talk to us at the Gophers slack: https://invite.slack.gobridge.org/ in the #berlin channel, and follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/gdgberlingo
Join in person at:
Synthflow AI
Backfabrik, Saarbrücker Str. 36-38, 10405 Berlin, Germany
https://maps.app.goo.gl/cM7mrmRTZQfSBpudA
or virtually at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtGgh85opQg
Agenda
7:00 PM: Networking
Networking over drinks and food
7:30 PM: Welcome
Welcome words from the organizers
7:35 PM: Building Low-Latency Voice AI with Go: Lessons from Production / Tom Arrell & Omar Davutoğlu @ Synthflow AI
Discover how Synthflow AI leverages Go's concurrency primitives and performance characteristics to build real-time voice systems that handle thousands of simultaneous conversations. We'll explore goroutine patterns for audio streaming, memory management strategies for low latency, and the trade-offs we've made scaling our voice agent infrastructure.
Tom Arrell - Principal Software Engineer at Synthflow AI in Berlin, where he specialises in building scalable distributed systems and voice AI infrastructure. A specialist in Go and Rust, Tom is driven by a philosophy of writing useful, modular, and well-architected code. Before joining Synthflow, he held senior engineering roles at SumUp and Klarna, working on high-volume backend services. When not debugging Go routines, Tom can often be found hacking on custom mechanical keyboards.
Omar Davutoğlu - Senior Software Engineer at Synthflow AI, where he architects infrastructure for autonomous voice agents. With a deep background in the programmable communications space, Omar previously served as a Software Engineer L3 at Vonage, working on core VoIP and communication platforms. His engineering experience spans multiple high-growth Berlin tech companies, including senior roles at Nuri (Fintech) and On, where he specialised in building resilient, distributed backend systems.
8:10 PM: Announcements and break
Announcements, HR lost & found, open mic
8:00 PM: Building GoVisual: Zero-Config HTTP Debugging in Go / Arif Dogan, Independent Tech Consultant
GoVisual is an HTTP debugging middleware used by 1,000+ Go developers.
In this talk, I'll share why Go debugging is painful, how we architected GoVisual
for zero-config integration, real production use cases (4hrs → 15min debugging),
and lessons learned building developer tools at scale.
Arif Dogan is a Independent Tech Consultant building high-performance Go systems in Berlin.
Creator of GoVisual (HTTP debugger for Go, 1,000+ developers), fastapi-radar, and LLMDog.
8+ years building backend systems at scale.
8:40 PM: Networking
Networking over drinks and food
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Hosted By
Natalie Pistunovich, Organizer
Ole Bulbuk, Organizer
Tim Scheuermann, Organizer
Anderson Queiroz, Organizer
Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-berlin-golang-presents-hybrid-january-golang-meetup-2/