I'm Augustine. I founded Hackerspace Mumbai and have kept #mumtechup - the city's longest-running tech meetup - going for fifteen years.
GitHub named me a Star. I was a Microsoft MVP from 2018 to 2026 - Developer Technologies and AI. Docker named me Community Leader of the Year for Asia. The work underneath all of that is the same: put a room together, put the specs in writing, and leave the door open for the next person.
Right now that means agentic systems you can actually trust - Spec-Driven Development, MCP authorization boundaries, and Bethuya, a human-in-the-loop platform that cut community event triage from eighty hours to under ten.
Specs define intent. Identity and authorization enforce boundaries. You need both.
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A Saturday, almost every month, since 2011. First-timers get a named host. Demos beat decks. Recordings, slides, code, and the handbook stay public - the community should be forkable.
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Agent-first event intelligence for communities that get 7× oversubscribed. Fairness-aware cohort selection, a Decision Cockpit, local AI so PII never leaves the room. .NET, Aspire, Foundry Local. Humans approve. Community owns. |
The event app we actually run community on - built to make OSS meetups more inclusive. Blazor, Azure, well-architected from day one, now a proving ground for Aspire and spec-driven upgrades. |
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Hands-on workshops that take Indian developers from a first agent to something they can ship. Built for the room, not the keynote. |
Mumbai's largest independent OSS community. GitHub Copilot Dev Days, Build //localhost, #TechMang college tours, and the meetup that refused to die. |
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.NET · Aspire · Blazor · Azure AI Foundry · GitHub Copilot · Spec Kit / OpenSpec · MCP
I care about the unglamorous layer: specs that survive a refactor, agents that cannot wander, and workshops where someone ships before lunch.
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Talks, workshops, Dev Days - if your campus or community is gathering builders, I will come.
★ GitHub Star · Mumbai & Mangaluru · on GitHub since 2012