MTL_code is hosted at the Botpress office every third Thursday of the month. Expect pizza, drinks, networking, and a talk or two from guest speakers on all things software development, programming and the latest in tech.
When
Thursday, Jan 15
6:00 PM
Where
Botpress Office

Montreal, QC

Upcoming Event

Designing Developer Experiences That Scale

Thursday, Jan 15  •  6:00 PM
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TypeScript
Startup
Tech
AI
Montreal
6:00 PM
Doors open
6:00-7:00 PM
Meet the Botpress team and fellow attendees; enjoy pizza and drinks
7:00-8:00 PM
Talks from our guest speaker(s)
8:00 PM and onward
Networking and conversation
In this event
​Chris Grass, Senior Software Developer at Botpress will deliver the talk Beautiful Types: Designing TypeScript Libraries That Feel Handcrafted.

TypeScript types help you write more correct code. But when you ship shared code (SDKs, internal packages, libraries), types are also the user interface. In this talk, he'll show what "handcrafted" types look like in practice: readable hover tooltips, autocomplete that surfaces the right options, and absurdly helpful error messages. We'll look at libraries that nail this (including Zod, Prisma, and Effect) to see how their public types shape the developer experience. You'll leave with a practical checklist and a few ways to sanity-check your library's type surface before you publish.​

David Desmarais-Michaud, Senior Platform Engineer at Nesto will give the talk Yoke: Code-based Kubernetes resource management and the journey from client to server-side package management.​

This talk explores the current state of Kubernetes IaC and package management, and builds from old client-side approaches towards new emerging server-side and orchestration patterns with a twist. What if we used actual code to define our IaC? This talk is the result of being a software engineer who accidentally found themselves in the world of devops and platform engineering, and of his attempts to bridge those two worlds. The talk consists of some musings about the industry and how the two careers were split apart, and the slow but steady tendency to add software development back into platform engineering. Followed by demos of code-first kubernetes package management and of server-side package management.
Speakers
Chris Grass
Senior Software Developer at Botpress
David Desmarais-Michaud
Senior Platform Engineer at Nesto

A new event is on the way next month. Discover highlights from our past events, and if you’d like to join us on stage, you can apply to be a speaker.

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Nov 20
Building Smoother, Smarter Developer Workflows
Michael Masson, CTO at Botpress, delivered the talk Kubernetes the Right Way: A Platform Engineering Approach to K8s. He acknowledged Kubernetes’ power and complexity, and showed how platform engineering provided a smoother, more manageable path for teams to benefit from K8s without forcing everyone to master it. Mark Savic, Cursor Ambassador for Montreal and CTO at Bucky AI, walked us through Mastering Vibes: Best Practices for Pair Programming. He addressed the gap between AI coding tool promises and the real frustrations developers faced, sharing proven patterns from the community to reduce friction, improve flow, and make AI-assisted development feel effortless. The session offered practical tools for all skill levels. Fred Lavoie, Founder and President at Deck, discussed Making Impossible Integrations… Possible. He demonstrated how authentication agents and a unified API made it feasible to integrate with any data source—even those without APIs—while ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable access to credentialed data.
Michael Masson
CTO at Botpress
Mark Savic
Cursor Ambassador for Montreal & CTO at Bucky AI
Fred Lavoie
Founder & President at Deck
Oct 16
Founders face to face
Sylvain Perron, CEO and Co-Founder of Botpress delivered a talk titled llmz: The TypeScript AI Engine, where we learned how to use AI reliably—making LLMs perform complex actions safely and predictably. He explored llmz, an AI execution engine that wrote, ran, and reasoned in TypeScript to power LLM-native apps and features. Alexandre Bouchard, CEO and Co-Founder of Hookdeck, presented Webhooks at Scale: Best Practices, Lessons Learned. Drawing on Hookdeck’s experience processing over 100 billion webhooks, he highlighted key architecture patterns, considerations for event-driven applications, and the future of webhooks with event destinations and gateways.
Sylvain Perron
CEO & Co-Founder of Botpress
Alexandre Bouchard
CEO & Co-Founder of Hookdeck
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