Speaking
Talks & Speaking
I speak at conferences and meetups on AI systems, cloud architecture, and backend engineering. All formats welcome — keynotes, workshops, panel discussions, or lightning talks.
Past & upcoming talks
Cloud Architecture Patterns Every Backend Engineer Should Know
Backend engineers who understand cloud architecture ship better systems. This talk covers event-driven architecture, serverless patterns, da…
RAG for Software Engineers: Beyond the Basics
Most RAG tutorials stop at "chunk text, embed, retrieve". This talk goes further — covering chunking strategies, metadata filtering, hybrid …
MCP vs Tool Use vs LangChain: Choosing the Right Abstraction
The AI tooling landscape is noisy. This talk cuts through the hype by comparing three popular approaches to giving LLMs access to external c…
Building Production-Ready AI Chat Systems
A deep-dive into what it takes to ship an AI chat application that scales. Covers LLM provider abstraction, streaming architecture, context …
Topics I speak on
Building AI applications beyond prompts
Architecture, tool use, streaming, evaluation — what it takes to ship AI in production.
MCP vs Tools vs LangChain
Cutting through the hype: when to use Model Context Protocol, native tool use, or an agent framework.
RAG for software engineers
Beyond the basics: chunking strategies, hybrid search, re-ranking, and evaluation.
Building production-ready AI chat systems
End-to-end architecture for AI chat: providers, streaming, history, tools, and observability.
Cloud architecture for backend engineers
Event-driven design, serverless patterns, and cost-aware architecture on AWS and Cloudflare.
From backend engineer to AI systems engineer
Practical guidance for engineers transitioning into AI application development.
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