About us
Welcome to Triangle Developers Community! This Meetup is a community of software developers and engineers living and working in the Triangle, NC area. Our goal is to host events that will be educational and fun!
Our meetups will consist of two talks from the community and have plenty of time for questions and getting to know each other.
We are so excited to meet all y'all!
Upcoming events
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Raleigh Hack Night & Happy Hour
R&D Brewing - Seven Saturdays Taproom, 1399 Capital Blvd, Raleigh, NC, USCome out to Triangle Devs Raleigh hack night! Hack on a project, grab a beer and meet some fellow coders! We will be partnering with Modern Web and Triangle Javascript to introduce our event to more software developers in the area.
R&D Brewing's Seven Saturdays Tap Room has graciously given us access to their space for our event. Shoutout to them and their continued support of our community! 🍻 ❤️
30 attendees
Triangle Devs Talks @ Bandwidth HQ
Bandwidth, 2230 Bandmate Wy, Raleigh, NC, USAt this Triangle Devs meetup, we’ll kick things off with a talk on React Native by Mazen Chami from Infinite Red. Following the presentation, join us for a fireside chat on AI featuring Alex Malic, Head of the Model Manager Team at SAS, and Carlos Santana, Solutions Architect at AWS.
Doors at 6:30pm - talks start at 7pm
Join us on March 12th for pizza, networking and talking tech!
React Native: 2015 & Beyond
Presented By: Mazen Chami
From a scrappy Facebook experiment to powering AI apps, 4 million weekly downloads, and a 1.0 on the horizon. Buckle up for a high-speed tour through a decade of React Native: the Bridge era, the New Architecture revolution, the explosive 2025 that changed everything, and where this rocket ship is headed next.Fireside Chat: AI in Software Engineering 2026
Join us in an open-format discussion with Alex Malic, Head of the Model Manager Team at SAS, and Carlos Santana, Solutions Architect at AWS. In this panel-style fireside chat, we will share how AI is being utilized by tech industry experts. Our panelist will share first hand accounts of working with AI and how businesses are tackling this game-changing new tech.Submit your questions for the fireside chat here:
https://forms.gle/oLaAu7RQt7RAGpnP8About Mazen
Mazen Chami is a Staff Software Engineer with over 6 years of experience in React Native. Mazen is the host of React Native Live and co-host of the React Native Radio podcast and an expert in Ignite and open source development. In his free time, Mazen loves to play soccer and enjoys time outdoors with his wife and 2 kids.About Alex
Alex Malich is an engineering leader with more than 15 years of experience building and scaling platform, DevOps, and cloud-native systems across startups and enterprise environments. By day, he works in SAS R&D on Model Manager, where he focuses on modernization, resilient architecture, and making AI adoption practical and measurable, including Agentic AI and MCP-based tooling.By night, Alex wears a different kind of helmet as a volunteer firefighter, bringing the same calm, systems-thinking mindset from production incidents to real-world emergencies. He is the founder of Triangle Tech Talks, a community built around sharing ideas, lessons learned, and honest conversations about technology. He is also the co-founder and co-host of the AI on Fire podcast, where AI, engineering, and reality checks meet.
Alex is especially passionate about modern AI architecture, exploring how LLMs, agents, and platforms can work together in ways that are reliable, scalable, and grounded in real engineering constraints.About Carlos:
Carlos Santana is a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS leading Container solutions in the Worldwide Application Modernization GTM team. With a strong background in distributed systems, open source, devops, containers, gitops, kubernetes, agentic. He is a CNCF Ambassador and organizer of the CNCF Kubernetes BookClub. Follow him on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/csantanapr52 attendees
Past events
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