November Meetup: "Developer Workflows in AI Age - Local or Cloud" with Zack Way

We're excited to welcome Zack Way from Microsoft as our guest speaker for our November 19th meetup! Zack will be presenting "Developer Workflows in AI Age - Local or Cloud"

What to expect
"Generating code is easy, but building software takes knowledge and processes. While AI is dramatically changing how we build software, context and fundamentals matter – developers need all the guardrails to make Agentic workflows work the right way. There are lots of decision points:
- Run AI Models in the cloud or locally
- Balancing privacy & cost concerns
- Choices in Agentic harness
- IDE, Terminal or Browser workflows?
- Spec out project details or build ad hoc?
- Bridging the gap between Design & code
- Prescriptive guidance through Skills
- Delegate work with Sub-Agents
- Squad of Agents with varying responsibilities - Pitching Agents against each other
- Bring grounded context with MCPs
- How to validate AI’s work?
- Human code reviews or architectural guidance?

Let’s have an honest conversation and see real-world AI-powered workflows. Modern development stacks should provide tooling to embrace Agentic workflows, irrespective of where developers are on the AI adoption spectrum. With contextual expertise to light up AI-human loops, the right guardrails can make developers ultra productive with AI – upwards and onwards."

About the speaker
Zack Way is a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect at Microsoft with 15 years building and modernizing C#/.NET applications on Azure. He focuses on developer enablement and agentic software patterns in .NET—designing multi-agent architectures, A2A workflows, and pragmatic routing strategies that balance latency, cost, and accuracy. Zack has led teams through platform modernization, CI/CD on GitHub, and observability-first practices with Aspire. He shares open-source samples and talks about productionizing AI features without the hype. When he’s not shipping code, he’s tinkering in a homelab and teaching Lucia to run the house.

Find him on GitHub and LinkedIn

Doors open at 5:30 PM, and we’ll officially kick things off at 6:00 PM.