Illinois Prairie PUG Meetup

Dear Illinois Prairie PUG members,

The shortest month of the year is almost over, and we are looking forward to the March meetup! It will take place on March 17, and following the great success of the February talk about Postgres AI ecosystem, we will continue exploring this topic.

Speaker: Paul Whalen, PEAK6 Capital Management

Talk title: Early Learnings Building Apps on Postgres in the Claude Code Era: The Importance of the Iteration Loop

Talk Description:

In this session, Paul will share experiences he's had building applications on Postgres using Claude Code and offer thoughts about what Claude is good at, where it needs direction, and general strategies for successful agentic engineering with Postgres at the center of your app. This session is geared towards application developers or anyone who works with (or is interested in working with) coding agents for development on Postgres. There will be time for discussion and debate about best practices, so everyone can share thoughts and learn together.

About the Speaker
Paul is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at PEAK6 Capital Management, an options trading firm headquartered in Chicago, where he has spent all 10+ years of his career. He has worked across many parts of the application stack but is a lover of the data layer above all, and has made minor contributions to open source projects, including Apache Kafka and Apache Arrow.

Event location: DRW Training Center, 540 W. Madison, 25th floor.

A reminder about our venue:

- This is a high-security building, which means the names of all participants should be communicated no later than 7:30 AM on the day of the event, and all participants must present a government-issued ID to be admitted. If your meetup profile does not list your full name, please send a DM with the required information to me (Hettie). Please make sure to do so not later than the day before the meetup. Registration for all in-person events will be closed by 7-30 AM the day of the event.
- The food order will be placed a day before the event, so I strongly encourage everybody planning to attend to RSVP at least a day before.

Please RSVP to this event only if you are attending in person.
If you are planning to attend virtually, please wait for a separate invite

Hope to see you there!

Hettie Dombrovskaya
Illinois Prairie PostgreSQL User Group Organizer