[HYBRID] [May] Golang Meetup

Hello Gophers,

Welcome back for another year of Go talks and networking!

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

Speakers:
Simon Schulte is a Tech Lead with nearly a decade of experience building scalable backend systems across fast-paced product companies. With a background in business informatics and a passion for Golang, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps, he has spent his career solving complex engineering challenges. He is particularly excited about leveraging AI and LLM workflows to eliminate the tedious, repetitive work that slows developers down — think tech debt, boilerplate, and documentation — so engineers can spend their energy on what actually moves the needle. For Simon, AI isn't about replacing developers; it's about giving them back their time.
Daniel Peralta Madriz is a backend engineer from Costa Rica with around 6 years of experience working with Golang, although, sadly, he's been spending most of his time lately working with Node.js :(. He is interested in distributed systems, scalability, and developer experience, and is currently experimenting with how to leverage LLMs to safely and autonomously execute repetitive tasks.
Michael Morgen is a Platform/infra engineer by day, runtime and network optimizations by night.

Join in person at:
Talon.One
Talon.One is the incentives engine behind 300 of the world’s most-loved brands, unifying loyalty and promotions on a single flexible platform. Their customers run millions of real-time incentive decisions across markets, channels, and use cases.As incentives become more strategic than ever, they are continuing to raise the bar for what businesses can build and how fast they can build it

Wiener Str. 10, 10999 Berlin

https://maps.app.goo.gl/8eMjgWes1E4TBA3c7

or virtually at: https://www.youtube.com/live/qh__TQ1bMF0?is=hw21pk0ZE3HGyaaT

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Agenda

10:49 PM: Networking

Networking over drinks and food

7:30 PM: Welcome

Welcome words from the organizers

7:35 PM: Talk 1: Go-ing Against the Chaos: Deterministic LLM Workflows / Daniel Peralta Madriz (Backend developer) & Simon Schulte (Techlead of Webhooks and Notifications) @ Talon.One

LLMs are powerful, but “it works most of the time” isn’t good enough for production. In this talk, we’ll walk through how to design deterministic workflows around non-deterministic models using Go. From structured iteration loops to validation steps and guardrails, you’ll learn how to move beyond prompting and start engineering reliable LLM-powered systems

8:10 PM: Announcements and break

Announcements, HR lost & found, open mic

8:30 PM: Talk 2: About Go Memory Allocator / Michael Morgen, Platform/infra engineer @ Mirantis

A short talk about how Go gives memory to your program. We will look at the main allocator parts, why small allocations are usually fast, when Go asks the OS for more memory, and a couple of simple examples where this knowledge helps performance.

9:05 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-may-golang-meetup-1/.