GDG Melbourne May'26 Meetup!

RSVP on our GDG community platform -> https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-melbourne-presents-gdg-melbourne-may26-meetup/
This event is hosted at the Mantel Group Office, with the recording of the talks to be shared afterwards on YouTube if you can't make it.

There will be food, networking and some surprise swag!Agenda:

6:20 - Intro

6:30 - Talks

8:00 till late - networking & chat (& drinks optional)Speakers and Talks:

Talk 1: Katie Barnett, Engineering Manager @ Bilue| Google Developer Expert for Android | GDG Melbourne Co-Organiser | Women TechMakers Melbourne Ambassador

What's New on Android

Talk 2: Tulsi Sapkota, Senior Software Engineer @ Linktree

Replace Yourself with Agents

How we built an agent that monitors our Buildkite pipelines, reasons about inefficiencies, and raises PRs to fix it. A practical story about trust, confidence thresholds, and what happens when the agent is better at your job than you are.

Talk 3: Saugato Paroi, IT Support Engineer @ PageUp

Building AutoCloud: How I turned "why is deploying so hard?" into an AI-powered platform.

It started with a frustration every developer knows — you build something that works beautifully on your machine, then hit a wall of IAM roles, Terraform files, networking configs, and CI/CD pipelines just to get it live. I watched that gap kill momentum for too many projects, including my own. So I decided to build the tool I wished existed. AutoCloud is an AI-powered platform that takes a local project or Git repo and turns it into a production-ready cloud deployment — no deep infrastructure expertise required. In this talk, I'll walk you through the journey: the problem that sparked it, the architectural decisions, the hard lessons, and how AI made it all possible.

How to find us:

Doors open at 5:45 PM at our host the Mantel Group, Level 2/452 Flinders St, Melbourne. Message via Meetup or Slack if you are arriving after 6:00, as the lifts won't let you up.

This is an in-person only event. If you have any accessibility requirements, please reach out via the Meetup or Slack to the organiser group to discuss, and we will do our best to help you out.

Agenda

***

Speakers

Katie Barnett - Google Developer Expert for Android (Engineering Manager, Bilue)

Katie is passionate about all things Android. She has taken on a wide variety of challenging projects including in the live event, media and travel space. Her favourite thing is to see someone having a delightful experience using something she has worked on. Katie is very active in the development community, she is one of the organisers of GDG Melbourne and is a Women Techmakers Ambassador. Sh…

Tulsi Sapkota - Linktree (Senior Software Engineer)

Shaugato Paroi - PageUp (IT Support Engineer)

Hosted By

Katie Barnett, GDE Android / GDG Organiser

Suesi Tran, Senior Flutter Developer

Poornima Sivakumar, GDG Organiser

Lovee Jain, GDG Organiser

Zach Jensz, GDG Organiser

Ujjawal Raj, GDG Organiser

Bramley Turner-Jones, GDG Organiser

Yuba Raj (UV) Panta, GDG Organiser

Kartik Arora, Android Engineer

Google Developer Expert in Android
Android Engineer @ Bilue

Carolyn Ai Chi Wong,

Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-melbourne-presents-gdg-melbourne-may26-meetup/.