SF AI Engineers: Dec Tech Talk w/ Nexla Presenting

SF's AI Engineering Holiday Celebration

The December 2025 SF AI Engineers Tech Talk transformed into our biggest celebration yet, combining serious technical depth with serious holiday cheer. Over 100 engineers gathered at House of AI for an evening of production-focused presentations, followed by a full-blown holiday party complete with bartenders, specialty cocktails, and the best technical conversations in San Francisco.

Featured Speakers & Technical Deep-Dives

Tori Seidenstein - Co-founder & CEO @ Tadata

Tori tackled one of AI engineering's hardest problems: building reliable integrations for AI agents. Unlike traditional software, agents represent a new identity needing quick, reliable access to systems, while dealing with the non-deterministic nature of LLMs.

Grant Timmerman - Staff Technical Leader Manager

Grant delivered a masterclass on building AI-powered web automation that actually works in production. The core challenge: the web is designed for humans, but we're building AI to interact with these human-centric tools.

Abhijit Bharadwaj - Software Engineer, AI @ Nexla

Abhijit demonstrated how Nexla is bringing "vibe coding" to data engineering with Express, an AI agent that builds complex data pipelines from simple prompts.

The SF AI Engineering Community

SF AI Engineers attracts the best technical talent in the Bay Area:

• Machine Learning Engineers shipping production AI features

• Software Engineers integrating LLMs and agents into applications

• Data Engineers building AI-powered data pipelines

• Technical Founders building AI-first products

• AI Infrastructure Engineers scaling ML systems

• Applied AI Researchers bridging research and production

Holiday Party Highlights

December's event featured our biggest celebration yet:

• Professional bartenders mixing holiday-themed cocktails

• Beer, wine, seltzers plus full bar service

• Premium pizza from local favorites

• Early talks, longer party: Presentations ended at 7:20 PM, party ran until 9:00 PM

• Holiday atmosphere without sacrificing technical substance

"The fact that we went from debugging agent context windows to discussing them over spiked eggnog was perfect." - Engineering Manager, AI startup

Join Future SF AI Engineers Events

We meet monthly at House of AI in San Francisco. Each month features three new speakers tackling cutting-edge AI engineering challenges.

January 2025: Featuring Pavan Trinath Vutukur (Member of Technical Staff @ Robinhood) + speakers TBA

Upcoming Topics:

• LLM application architecture and scaling

• Production RAG system optimization

• Agent evaluation and testing strategies

• Fine-tuning vs. prompt engineering tradeoffs

• Vector database performance optimization

• Cost management for AI applications

• Multi-agent system design

• AI observability and monitoring

📅 Register for January!