On October 28th, we hosted our 28th DevOps & AI Latvia meetup at October 28th at Konventa Sēta Hotel – another inspiring evening of networking and discussion!
This time, our speakers brought both technical depth and forward-looking perspective:
Alex Shershebnev, ML/DevOps at Zencoder, delivered the talk “Supercharging DevOps with MCP (Without Opening a Security Hole)”.
He introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP) – a new way to extend LLMs with real-time access to tools, APIs, and infrastructure. Alex demonstrated how MCP enables seamless workflows such as querying Grafana dashboards, triggering CI/CD jobs, and fixing issues from Sentry without leaving the IDE, while emphasizing the importance of security when integrating these capabilities into production environments.
Uldis Karlovs-Karlovskis, IT coach and Co-founder/CTO @ Zen IS, shared his talk “Sciencing DevOps with Model-driven and LLM Code Generation.”
He spoke about his journey from 20 years of building pipelines to becoming a PhD student, exploring how model-driven DevOps and LLM-powered code generation can transform efficiency. Uldis explained the model-driven approach and how to leverage Large Language Models for automated code generation, sharing what works, what doesn’t, and how to apply these principles in real pipelines.
💡 We also had a Lightning Talk by Evan Veinberg, founder and CTO of Engine, titled “Breaking the Bottlenecks: Stop Chasing Context.” With over 21 years of software development experience, Evan shared insights on how to help business and technical teams make decisions and reach agreements more easily, streamlining collaboration and improving outcomes.
A huge thank you to our sponsor:
- Arvato Systems as General Partner
▶️ Missed it or want a replay? Catch the full recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds1YFHY_M3A&t=8s
Thank you to everyone who joined us, participated in discussions, and helped make this event a success. Don’t forget to join our Slack channel – Techies of Baltics, and subscribe to our YouTube channel for recordings of past meetups.
See you at the next meetup!
