NY AI Engineers: December w/ Google, Tabs, & Structify Presenting

Event Date: December 2025
Location: Fonzi HQ, 25 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11249
Attendance: 100+ AI engineers, ML practitioners, and technical founders

Overview: NYC's Premier AI Engineering Meetup

The December 2025 NYC AI Engineers Tech Talk brought together over 100 software engineers, machine learning practitioners, and technical founders at Fonzi's Brooklyn headquarters for an evening of technical deep-dives into production AI challenges.

This monthly meetup series has become the go-to gathering for New York's AI engineering community—offering substance over hype, with real engineers sharing real solutions to real problems.

Featured Speakers & Technical Presentations

Andrew Dong - Member of Technical Staff @ Tabs

Alex Reichenbach - CEO @ Structify

Abhijeet Rajwade - Sr. Customer Engineer, AI Infrastructure @ Google

What Attendees Said

"High-signal conversations with engineers actually shipping AI features. Best technical meetup in NYC." - ML Engineer, fintech startup

"Finally, a meetup that goes beyond surface-level AI hype. Real technical depth." - Senior Software Engineer

"Great mix of practitioners, from people building RAG systems to those scaling LLM infrastructure." - AI Engineering Lead

Topics Covered

This month's presentations explored:

• LLM Application Development: Building production-ready applications with large language models

• AI Infrastructure at Scale: Architecting systems to support ML workloads

• Production ML Challenges: Real problems encountered when shipping AI features

• RAG Systems & Vector Databases: Implementing retrieval-augmented generation

• Model Deployment & Monitoring: Best practices for ML operations

• Cost Optimization: Managing compute costs for AI applications

The NYC AI Engineering Community

NYC AI Engineers attracts a diverse mix of technical professionals:

• Machine Learning Engineers shipping production models

• Software Engineers integrating LLMs into applications

• Data Scientists moving from notebooks to production

• Technical Founders building AI-first products

• AI Infrastructure Engineers scaling ML systems

• Applied AI Researchers bridging research and engineering

Industries Represented:

Fintech, healthcare tech, enterprise SaaS, consumer AI applications, developer tools, and more.

Why Attend NYC AI Engineers?

Technical Depth: Unlike generic AI meetups, every presentation is a 10-minute deep-dive into real engineering challenges—no sales pitches, no surface-level overviews.

High-Signal Networking: Connect with engineers tackling similar problems. Past attendees have found co-founders, hired team members, and formed technical partnerships.

Learn from Production Experience: Every speaker has shipped AI features in production. You'll learn what actually works, what breaks, and what they'd do differently.

Accessible Location: Fonzi HQ in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is easily accessible via L train (Bedford Ave stop) with plenty of nearby dining options pre or post-event.

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