REFACTR.TECH

PLEASE RSVP THROUGH THEIR PAGE: https://www.meetup.com/ai-ship-and-social/events/315025076/

ABOUT THE EVENT
AI Ship & Social is hosting Nitish Pandey, Staff Engineer at Mailchimp, on building an agent for self-serve BI: type a question in Slack or a UI and get back the answer, follow-up questions, the SQL query, and a visualization.
He'll walk through architecture, the LangGraph workflow, guardrails to minimize hallucinations, cost, prompt injection defenses, and maintenance challenges.
📅 Tuesday, June 9 · 6:00 to 8:00 PM EDT
📍 Westside Motor Lounge · 727 Echo St NW, Atlanta
💵 Free to attend (food and drinks for purchase, cover your own tab)

ORGANIZED BY
AI Ship & Social, run by Matthew Hooten and Neel Shivdasani. You might recognize Neel from the fireside chat at our May 19 AI meetup. The group focuses on people actually shipping AI work, paired with the social part most events skip.

WHY WE'RE FEATURING IT
Atlanta is better when more communities show up. If you came to our May AI night and wanted more of that energy, this is your follow-up.
Bonus: the night after (Wednesday, June 10), we're at the same venue for our own Out of Office Hours happy hour. Could be a great two-night stretch.

RSVP HERE 👉 https://www.meetup.com/ai-ship-and-social/events/315025076/

Note: RSVPing on the REFACTR.TECH page does NOT register you for the event. Please RSVP through the AI Ship & Social link above.

Join us for a casual happy hour at Westside Motor Lounge, a chance to connect with others across the Atlanta tech community in a relaxed, social setting.

This one is all about meeting new people, catching up with familiar faces, and having real conversations. It’s an easy way to expand your network and get plugged into the community.

If you’ve been to past events, come hang and reconnect. If you’re new, this is a great entry point — just show up, say hi, and join a conversation.

📍 Westside Motor Lounge
🕒 6 PM - 8 PM

Food and drinks will be available for purchase (everyone covers their own tab).

If you’ve been wanting to meet more people in the community or just get out and connect, we’d love to see you there.

Everyone participating in the REFACTR.TECH conference, events and Discord/Slack community—including, but not limited to attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at REFACTR.TECH, are required to agree to the following code of conduct. Organizers will enforce this code throughout the event.

We'll also have talks from:
Brandon Mathis - Engineering Lead at This Dot Labs
"Exploring Pi Coding Agent"
Description: I have been a Claude Code user for over a year but recently found myself asking questions about how my coding harness worked and if I could customize it like I have my text editor. This led me down a journey of exploring several different open source agents and eventually going with Pi. I have been using Pi with GPT-5.5 for several weeks now and in this talk I will explain why this is my preferred coding agent, how I customize it, what customizations I have made and how you can get started yourself.

Kiah Tolliver - Senior Developer Advocate at LocalStack
TBA

Fireside Chat with Jonathan Fontanez, AI Engineering Lead at This Dot Labs and Rob Ocel, VP of Innovation at This Dot Labs

Everyone participating in the REFACTR.TECH conference, events and Discord/Slack community—including, but not limited to attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at REFACTR.TECH, are required to agree to the following code of conduct. Organizers will enforce this code throughout the event.

**REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE**

Join us as we guide you through reading a surprise code excerpt and learn from each other how to better read unfamiliar code. As more and more code is generated due to AI, our ability to read code is increasingly important but a skill we rarely practice. At this meetup we will guide you through a series of prompts and activities to explore and discuss a small piece of code. This meeting is language agnostic - whether you know the language or it’s new to you, your perspective matters. Fresh eyes often spot what experts overlook.

This meetup is equally for those new to development as well as seasoned professionals - we can all get better at reading code (and understanding how others approach code so we can be better mentors and teammates). If you know what a variable is, this is for you!

Learn more about Code Reading Clubs

This month's discussion will be led by Tim Pamplin!

Agenda
6:00 pm - Check-in & Networking
6:30 pm - Welcome & Introduction Kick-off
6:45 pm - Read some Code! The group will be guided through a series of questions and actions as we read a piece of unfamiliar code together
8:00 pm - Closing & Next Steps

Host & Sponsor
PrizePicks

**REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE**

Attendees should bring:

• themselves
• colored pencils/highlighters
• pen or pencil for writing on code

Parking is available for visitor deck of the Star Metal Building (turn onto Vidalia Lane off of 11th Street)

MARTA is smarta: Both the 12 and 14 bus, departing from Midtown Station, will take you to west midtown. Transfer to bus from rail is free. Pro-tip, follow along on google maps or the transit app if you’re unfamiliar with the bus route and which stop to take.

Everyone participating in the REFACTR.TECH conference, events and Discord/Slack community—including, but not limited to attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at REFACTR.TECH, are required to agree to the following code of conduct. Organizers will enforce this code throughout the event.