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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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/csantanapr106 attendees
Durham Social Hack Night
Hi-Wire Brewing Durham, 800 Taylor St #9-150, Durham, NC, USHey tech folks, come out and hang at Hi-Wire starting at 6pm! Hack Night is meant to be a social evening for folks in tech. It's less about networking and more about community.
Look for the Hack Night tabletop sign and nerds wearing name tags to find us. If the weather is nice, we'll probably be outside.
Help folks feel welcome by using the "Pac Man Rule" - when standing with a group of people (usually in a circle), leave some space open so that another person can easily join.
See our Code of Conduct. To summarize: be nice or leave. No tolerance for harassment or oppression. In addition, since alcohol is present at these events, please be mindful of your consumption and respect other people's choices on whether or not to consume.
FAQs
Do folks hack at Hack Night? Should I bring my computer?
This is more of a night for hackers than an actual hack night. You're welcome to bring a laptop, but most people will only be socializing.What are the beverage options? Are there any non-alcoholic drinks?
Hi-Wire Brewing offers many types of beers including a few non-alcoholic options plus wine and some liquor. They usually have a happy hour special on the first few beers on the menu. In the same complex are Cugino Forno which has additional drink options, and Two Roosters which has excellent ice cream.Are there any drink specials?
If Hack Night is on a Tuesday, Hi-Wire usually has $5 pints for their flagship beers. Look for the list at the counter.Do people eat snacks/dinner during the meetup?
Sometimes folks will order a pizza or salad from Cugino Forno. I sometimes grab an ice cream from Two Roosters across the way. Most people eat before or after but it's no big deal - whatever you prefer and are most comfortable with.How can I connect with the developer community?
Go to triangledevelopers.com to find the Discord and Slack info.2 attendeesDurham Social Hack Night
Hi-Wire Brewing Durham, 800 Taylor St #9-150, Durham, NC, USHey tech folks, come out and hang at Hi-Wire starting at 6pm! Hack Night is meant to be a social evening for folks in tech. It's less about networking and more about community.
Look for the Hack Night tabletop sign and nerds wearing name tags to find us. If the weather is nice, we'll probably be outside.
Help folks feel welcome by using the "Pac Man Rule" - when standing with a group of people (usually in a circle), leave some space open so that another person can easily join.
See our Code of Conduct. To summarize: be nice or leave. No tolerance for harassment or oppression. In addition, since alcohol is present at these events, please be mindful of your consumption and respect other people's choices on whether or not to consume.
FAQs
Do folks hack at Hack Night? Should I bring my computer?
This is more of a night for hackers than an actual hack night. You're welcome to bring a laptop, but most people will only be socializing.What are the beverage options? Are there any non-alcoholic drinks?
Hi-Wire Brewing offers many types of beers including a few non-alcoholic options plus wine and some liquor. They usually have a happy hour special on the first few beers on the menu. In the same complex are Cugino Forno which has additional drink options, and Two Roosters which has excellent ice cream.Are there any drink specials?
If Hack Night is on a Tuesday, Hi-Wire usually has $5 pints for their flagship beers. Look for the list at the counter.Do people eat snacks/dinner during the meetup?
Sometimes folks will order a pizza or salad from Cugino Forno. I sometimes grab an ice cream from Two Roosters across the way. Most people eat before or after but it's no big deal - whatever you prefer and are most comfortable with.How can I connect with the developer community?
Go to triangledevelopers.com to find the Discord and Slack info.2 attendeesDurham Social Hack Night
Hi-Wire Brewing Durham, 800 Taylor St #9-150, Durham, NC, USHey tech folks, come out and hang at Hi-Wire starting at 6pm! Hack Night is meant to be a social evening for folks in tech. It's less about networking and more about community.
Look for the Hack Night tabletop sign and nerds wearing name tags to find us. If the weather is nice, we'll probably be outside.
Help folks feel welcome by using the "Pac Man Rule" - when standing with a group of people (usually in a circle), leave some space open so that another person can easily join.
See our Code of Conduct. To summarize: be nice or leave. No tolerance for harassment or oppression. In addition, since alcohol is present at these events, please be mindful of your consumption and respect other people's choices on whether or not to consume.
FAQs
Do folks hack at Hack Night? Should I bring my computer?
This is more of a night for hackers than an actual hack night. You're welcome to bring a laptop, but most people will only be socializing.What are the beverage options? Are there any non-alcoholic drinks?
Hi-Wire Brewing offers many types of beers including a few non-alcoholic options plus wine and some liquor. They usually have a happy hour special on the first few beers on the menu. In the same complex are Cugino Forno which has additional drink options, and Two Roosters which has excellent ice cream.Are there any drink specials?
If Hack Night is on a Tuesday, Hi-Wire usually has $5 pints for their flagship beers. Look for the list at the counter.Do people eat snacks/dinner during the meetup?
Sometimes folks will order a pizza or salad from Cugino Forno. I sometimes grab an ice cream from Two Roosters across the way. Most people eat before or after but it's no big deal - whatever you prefer and are most comfortable with.How can I connect with the developer community?
Go to triangledevelopers.com to find the Discord and Slack info.1 attendee
Past events
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