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SUMMARY:2026 April Meetup : Antfly
DESCRIPTION:Portland AI Engineers\n**=== [RSVP](https://luma.com/hj6y931u)
  on Luma ====**\n\n​[AJ Roetker](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aj-roetker-
 a9485447/?utm_source=luma) spent over a decade in Portland building distri
 buted systems at **Puppet**\, **Lytics**\, and **Contentstack**\, working 
 on everything from storage engines and enterprise deployment tooling to cl
 oud-native data pipelines.\n​\nNow AJ is building **Antfly**\, a distrib
 uted multimodal database that combines full-text and vector search with bu
 ilt-in ML inference via Termite\, our local model server for embedding\, r
 eranking\, chunking\, OCR\, NER\, transcription\, and more.\n​\nThis tal
 k covers what AJ's learned building a context layer for AI agents: why ret
 rieval needs to go beyond simple vector lookup\, how a database that under
 stands its own data changes what agents can do\, and the practical challen
 ges of making enterprise knowledge truly available to AI. Not just stored\
 , but searchable\, enriched\, and ready to act and iterate on.\n\n**Schedu
 le:**\n\n* 5:00 - 5:30: Snacks and networking\n* 5:30 - 6:30: Demos start\
 n* 6:30 - 7:00: Wrap up and networking\n\n***\n\n###\n\n**Get involved:**\
 n\n* **Present your work at a future event**: Email us at [info@portlandai
 .engineer](http://mailto:info@portlandai.engineer/) to discuss sharing you
 r project or insights\n* **Provide feedback**: Help shape our community by
  sharing your ideas and suggestions\n* **Sponsor an event**: [Contact us](
 https://www.portlandai.engineer/sponsorship) to discuss partnership opport
 unities\n\nFor more information and to join our community\, visit [portlan
 dai.engineer](https://portlandai.engineer/)\n**Thank you to our amazing sp
 onsors**\n[Portland Incubator Experiment](https://www.piepdx.com/) (PIE)\n
 [Silicon Florist](https://siliconflorist.com/)\n[AlteredCraft](https://alt
 eredcraft.com)\n[O'Reilly](https://www.oreilly.com/)\n​[the VIC](https:/
 /thevicwa.com/?utm_source=luma)\n\n**=== [RSVP HERE](https://luma.com/hj6y
 931u) ====**
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