What we’re about
CloudAustin is a community for Austin area technology practitioners interested in learning and sharing about their experiences with cloud computing, DevOps, containerization, and other cutting edge technology architecture and practice.
We've been around for over 10 years. Our meetings are open to all, and has a mix of developers, systems/ops/DevOps, other technical (security, QA), sales and marketing, and product development folks attending regularly.
We have monthly meetings (free admission and we try to get sponsors to buy food for us) on the third Tuesday evening of the month. We are always looking for volunteers to speak or demo at the meetings and for sponsors to buy the food.
Interested in speaking? Pitch a talk here!
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Upcoming events
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Find Products with AI: From Images to Answers Using RAG
10124 Lake Creek Pkwy, Austin, TX, USThis month we are welcoming Vasanth Rao Jadav to present on how to use RAG. We also have room for one more talk.
Speaker: Vasanth Rao Jadav, Senior Systems Architect, EPAM Systems
Title: Find Products with AI: From Images to Answers Using RAG
Synopsis: He will present a live demo that walks through his recent proof-of-concept on building a multi-modal RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) system for product search. The session will cover how retail product images can be ingested and processed using BLIP for automated captioning, converted into text embeddings with Sentence Transformers, stored and searched in Pinecone, and finally combined with GPT-based LLMs to generate natural, user-friendly responses. The demo will show the full pipeline in action—from image ingestion and metadata creation to similarity search and LLM reasoning—along with a Streamlit UI that makes the experience interactive. The goal is to show how this approach can be built without heavy infrastructure, making it accessible to individuals or small teams interested in GenAI, vector search, multimodal retrieval, or AI for commerce use cases.
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Past events
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