#Austin Systems Programming
We're a collection of programmers, engineers and technologists living in Austin, TX. We meet once a month (every third Wednesday) to learn about systems programming. To join us,
click here.
#Schedule
Our next meetup will be
Wednesday April 15, 6pm-8pm, at the
Riversouth building
(401 South 1st St, Suite 1155, 78704). We'll be doing lightning talks (10 minutes or less). Sign up on the night! The building has $5/hour parking, and there's plenty of other parking nearby, as well as bus stops and bike lanes. We'll meet
on the 11th floor.
If you'd like to attend, please
RSVP.
Schedule:
- 6:00pm: Doors open, pizza is served (courtesy of our sponsor
East River Source Control).
- 6:30pm: Talks begin
- 8:00: We leave for Aussie's Bar and Grill where there'll be food, drinks and chatting
If you're interested in:
- Giving a 20 minute presentation (with 5 minutes for questions)
- Sponsoring (i.e. buying pizza, which gets you a 5 minute intro before or after the talks)
then please
let us know.
#About
We're focused on high-quality talks from engineers about what they've built or learned recently. Not product pitches. We welcome anyone interested in digging below their abstractions, learning how their systems work and how to make their own. We learn by teaching, so if anything is unclear or confusing, we make time to figure it out as a group.
Speakers will share their experience building, debugging, testing, and maintaining:
- Compilers, parsers, virtual machines, IDEs, profiling, etc.
- Databases, storage, networking, distributed systems
- Large scale infrastructure, low latency, high availability services
- Formal methods, verification
- Browsers, kernel development, security, etc.
- Anything else in the spirit of curiosity and excitement about how computers really work
Talks are not recorded or available remotely. We meet up in-person. If you're travelling to Austin and would like to give a talk while you're here, please let us know!
To join us, just register for our invitations
using this form.
We also have a
discord server. If the invitation has expired, just
let me know.
#Past meetups
- August 19th 2025:
Austin Seipp
on building a secure system from a minimal set of cryptographic primitives,
Sam Scott
on Rudy, a Rust debugger extension for LLDB.
- October 15th 2025:
Steve Klabnik
on compiler architecture,
Adam Chalmers
on 2D constraint solvers in Rust + WebAssembly
- November 19, 2025:
Joey Buiteweg
on programming ASICs for Cloudflare network interconnect,
Sean Chambers
on audio programming
- December 17, 2025: Lightning talks from a range of people
- January 21, 2026:
Noah Kennedy on work-stealing and thread-per-core models of asynchronous programming.
James Coman on USB protocol and creating a monster hub.
- February 18, 2026: Lightning talks from a range of people
- March 19, 2025:
Areg Harutyunyan
on radio, wireless communication protocols and motorcycles
Mathias Brossard
on embedded Linux and Rust
#Kindred spirits