NY AI Engineers: Jan Tech Talk w/ Reddit, FlutterFlow, & Alaffia Presenting

The NYC AI community is moving fast. In January, we gathered for another high-octane AI Engineers Meetup. This session moved past the hype to look at the "hard engineering" behind AI: from Tier-0 ranking systems at Reddit to the agentic workflows powering the future of healthcare and app development.

Whether you're an ML architect, a full-stack engineer, or an AI founder, these talks offer a blueprint for building production-ready systems in 2026.

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Technical Deep Dives

1. AI Agents for Medical Claims Auditing

Speaker: Levon, Applied AI Engineer @ Alafia

Levan explores how Alafia is tackling the $300B problem of healthcare waste. This talk is a must-watch for anyone interested in high-precision agents, medical record normalization, and the practical application of Pydantic for self-healing data loops.

2. Engineering "Dreamflow": The AI-Native IDE

Speaker: Abhinav, AI Engineer @ FlutterFlow

What does it take to build an agent that understands a visual IDE? Aim dives into the architecture of Dreamflow, covering custom multi-model orchestration, context management strategies, and how they built their own evaluation benchmark, "Appbench."

3. Scaling Tier-0 ML Infrastructure at Reddit

Speaker: Sid, Manager, ML Ranking Platform @ Reddit

Sid provides a rare look under the hood of the "front page of the internet." He breaks down Reddit's 3-stage ranking pipeline and explains how they integrate LLMs into offline Kafka streaming workflows while maintaining 99.99% resiliency for millions of users.

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Special thanks to our hosts and the NY AI engineering community for making this happen. See you at the next one!