Angel Banks

Angel Banks

@angelbanks.com

She/Her. I build developer communities and the programs that make them grow. AI + developer learning + DevRel. Co-founder @refactr.tech • prev. Microsoft. Professionally put together, personally petty. https://angelbanks.com/

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Angel Banks
@angelbanks.com

Me at Devnexus 2017, hiding behind my badge. Ten years later i’m back, and this time with my mom, Susa, a UX leader. first time presenting together and it scares me more than going solo 😬 “Your AI Can Design. You Still Have to Review It.” March in Atlanta. SEEMESPEAK = $100 off. devnexus.com

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Nov Radar is open for submissions. Radar is our community picks. Grab the bookmarklet and save a pick from anywhere on the web in one click. Oct's picks are live too, f. Jay Miller (Black Python Devs). Install → refactr.tech/r/submit · See Radar → refactr.tech/radar #AtlantaTech #OpenSource

Angel Banks
@angelbanks.com

My @refactr.tech Radar pick: Tubi. Stramers keeps raising fees. Tubi is still free. Not fake free where the good stuff is locked till you pay, legit free. Good movies (North by Northwest), bad ones (Troll 2, a fav of mine), and a show called Hoochie Daddies I won't be explaining. refactr.tech/radar

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📡 REFACTR Radar: September's picks are live and October submissions are open. Browse what the community's recommending, then add your own (open-source themed picks heavily encouraged, tech picks not required): refactr.tech/radar #AtlantaTech

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We have two events tonight on opposite sides of the world (kinda): build something silly at Code Jam (in Alpharetta), or grab a drink with us at Out of Office Hours (in West Midtown). Choose one: refactr.tech/events #AtlantaTech

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Melanie Crissey
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Developer marketing & dev advocate friends: does your co. have a bunch of printed stickers ready for conferences and events? 🙏 Please send a pack of 100 my way! I want to make sure Hack ITP (hackitp.com) has a packed sticker table for attendees. DM me for mailing address

hackitp.comHack ITP: An Atlanta Hackathon | Sept 19-20, 2026A weekend hackathon for builders, designers, and creatives. September 19-20, 2026 at Atlanta Tech Village, Buckhead.
Angel Banks
@angelbanks.com

Please take a couple of mins to let us know what you'd like to see fro REFACTR in the future. Survey closes this Wed!

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Help us build what's next at REFACTR! A 4-minute survey on the events, topics, and formats you want more of. Closes Wed https://refactr.tech/feedback

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Are you dialed in? 🛸 We're co-hosting DialedIn Atlanta this Tuesday for #ATLTechWeek: a hands-on WebXR workshop from CreateHER Fest × Vonage. Build immersive browser experiences with Vonage APIs, no XR experience needed. 📅 Tue, Aug 11 · 6 to 9 PM 📍 Memento Art Gallery 🎟️ luma.com/iunems4d

luma.comDialedIn Atlanta | A CreateHER Fest Tech Series #ATLTechWeek · LumaAre You DIALED IN? A hands-on WebXR creator workshop presented by CreateHER Fest × Vonage This event is a part of #ATLTechWeek - a week of events hosted by…
Angel Banks
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@kimcrayton1.bsky.social's The Predator's Table just came in the mail. Learned so much from Kim over the years, especially about naming the things. It's about how the people and systems that exploit others keep getting a seat at the table and staying protected. So proud! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

bookshop.orgThe Predator's Table: Facing the Truth About the Myth of White SupremacyYou have been told the table is the destination. Get in the room. Earn a seat. Give more, ask less, make yourself acceptable to the arrangement. The arrangement has a name. This book names it: the Pre...

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Friend & REFACTR speaker @kimcrayton1.bsky.social just dropped The Predator's Table, on how predatory power keeps its seat no matter who's in the room. Grab it:

bookshop.orgThe Predator's Table: Facing the Truth About the Myth of White SupremacyYou have been told the table is the destination. Get in the room. Earn a seat. Give more, ask less, make yourself acceptable to the arrangement. The arrangement has a name. This book names it: the Predator's Table.The Predator's Table is not a metaphor. It is the operating logic of the myth of white supremacy, the mechanism through which systems, institutions, and policies were built and maintained to extract value from some and protect the position of others. The myth convinced everyone at the table that the arrangement is natural, inevitable, and the best that is available. It convinced those with the most power that they have the most to protect. And it convinced everyone else that the problem is themselves.The Predator's Table: Facing the Truth About the Myth of White Supremacy is a field guide for white folx who are willing to look at what they have been living inside and decide to refuse it. Not to reform it. Not to get a better seat. To become unavailable to it entirely.Kim Crayton has spent thirty years tracing how the myth operates: not as attitude or bias, but as a designed and resourced system running through every institution white folx were born into and every policy that shaped what was possible before they made a single choice. This book does not ask you to feel guilty about that. It asks something harder: to see it accurately, name what it has cost you and everyone around you, and build the capacity to practice differently.The myth does its most effective work in the space between what you intend and what you actually do. That space is where this book operates. Each chapter builds the argument one layer at a time, naming how the myth installs itself in thought, behavior, organizational decision-making, and economic logic, and what it costs at each layer.Each chapter closes with three prompts: Spot the Pattern, Name the Cost, Try This Instead. These are not reflection questions. They are tools. The field guide travels with you because the work does not happen in a single reading. It happens in the moment when the myth shows up in a meeting, in a budget decision, in who gets heard and who gets told to wait. The prompts are designed for those moments.The destination this book builds toward is sovereignty: the condition in which the myth of white supremacy no longer has an address inside you. Not freedom from the myth's ongoing operation in the world. The internal state in which it can no longer reach what it once reached. That destination is available. This book is the map.

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404 Movie Not Found Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Sat Aug 1, 2:30 @ Regal Atlantic Station. 1. Check #events channel in Discord to see where folks are sitting 2. Grab your ticket from Regal 3. RSVP on Meetup All links --> https://www.meetup.com/refactr-tech/events/314126109 #refactr #AtlantaTech

meetup.com🎬 404 Movie Not Found: Spider-Man (Matinee), Sat, Aug 1, 2026, 2:30 PM | MeetupWe're switching things up. Join us for a movie night at **[Atlantic Station](https://atlanticstation.com/)** to see Spider-Man: Brand New Day together. This is a casual way

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Career Stories during Atlanta Tech Week 🎤 Kelsey Hightower, Sarah Drasner, Angie Jones & Bree Hall. Fireside chats + a panel on where tech's headed. Joint meetup, hosted by CallRail. Mon Aug 10 · 6:30 PM RSVP via Luma → https://luma.com/16nfy3e5 #refactr #AtlantaTech #RenderATL

luma.comMeet Atlanta Tech Week & RenderATL Speakers! · LumaA joint meetup during Atlanta Tech Week Hosted by REFACTR.TECH, Atlanta JavaScript, ReactATL, Modern Web, and Atlanta Vue.js. Sponsored and hosted by…

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Career Stories with @kelseyhightower.com, Sarah Drasner, @angiejones.tech, and Bree Hall during Atlanta Tech Week. Joint meetup with REFACTR.TECH, ATL JS, React ATL, Modern Web, Atlanta Vue.js, hosted by CallRail. Tue 8/11 · 6:30 PM Luma registration required. luma.com/16nfy3e5 #AtlantaTech

luma.comMeet Atlanta Tech Week & RenderATL Speakers! · LumaA joint meetup during Atlanta Tech Week Hosted by REFACTR.TECH, Atlanta JavaScript, ReactATL, Modern Web, and Atlanta Vue.js. Sponsored and hosted by…
Angel Banks
@angelbanks.com

Looking for a job is a full-time job, and honestly it's the worst. So I threw some AI at it. Now Claude scans job boards 2x/week, vets companies via Glassdoor + Blind (catching the layoffs a posting won't mention), and nudges me to use my network. How I built it 👇 angelbanks.com/writing/clau...

angelbanks.comI Made Claude Do My Job Search While I SleptA scheduled Claude task that scans LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, and Dice weekly, filters against my criteria, and delivers a Monday-morning digest.
Angel Banks
@angelbanks.com

(also, since it's working: I'm looking for community / devrel / events / program roles, remote. holler if your team's hiring or you want to build your own version.)

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Code Reading Club is back Wed 6/17. RSVPs close Sunday. Surprise excerpt, structured prompts, and language agnostic. All levels welcome. Led by Tim Pamplin. As more code gets AI-generated, reading code matters more. eventbrite.com/e/code-reading-club-tickets-1986676123766 #AtlantaTech

eventbrite.comCode Reading ClubSharpen your code-reading skills! Join us to explore unfamiliar code together—no matter your level or language. Fresh eyes welcome!

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Tonight: Christmas in June joint meetup. Joint night with Modern Web ATL, ATL JS, React ATL & Atlanta Vue.js. Cookie exchange, summer-Santa attire contest, and tech talks on AI coding agents. 6:30 PM · Improving · Alpharetta. www.meetup.com/refactr-tech... #AtlantaTech

meetup.comChristmas in June, Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 6:30 PM | MeetupHosted at Improving — 11675 Rainwater Dr, Ste 100, Alpharetta, GA I t’s the most wonderful time of the year again! Join Modern Web Atlanta, Atlanta JavaScript, React ATL, V

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The new REFACTR.TECH is live ✨ refactr.tech What's new: → Radar: community recommendations from members → Refreshed look → Monthly newsletter relaunched If the old site shows up, hard refresh (Cmd+Shift+R on Mac, Ctrl+Shift+R on Windows). #AtlantaTech

refactr.techREFACTR.TECH — Atlanta's Year-Round Tech CommunityA year-round community of engineers, technologists, and the curious-adjacent. Meetups, code reading, panels, social events, and the conversations between.

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Tonight at Westside Motor Lounge: AI Ship & Social with Nitish Pandey from Mailchimp on building a BI agent. Not our event. We're spotlighting them as a featured community. 6 PM · Free meetup.com/ai-ship-and-social/events/315025076 (Same venue as our Out of Office Hours tomorrow.) #AtlantaTech

meetup.comAsk the Agent, Not the Analyst: Self-Serve BI with AI, Tue, Jun 9, 2026, 6:00 PM | MeetupJune's speaker is [Nitish Pandey](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitishpandey20/), Staff Engineer at Mailchimp. BI teams everywhere are drowning in "quick questions" that are
Angel Banks
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Next Thu 6/11: Christmas in June. Joint meetup with Modern Web ATL, ATL JS, React ATL & Atlanta Vue.js. Cookie exchange, summer-Santa attire contest, and tech talks on AI coding agents. 6:30 PM · Improving · Alpharetta. meetup.com/refactr-tech/events/315029691 #AtlantaTech

meetup.comChristmas in June, Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 6:30 PM | MeetupIt’s the most wonderful time of the year again! Join Modern Web Atlanta, Atlanta JavaScript, React ATL, VueJS ATL, and REFACTR.TECH as we celebrate Christmas in July with a

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REFACTR.TECH is launching an updated site in June with a new Community Recs section. Books, podcasts, tools, talks, side projects you'd actually tell a friend about. Submit yours and we might feature you on the site + in our June newsletter. Due May 31 👉 bit.ly/REFACTR-recs #AtlantaTech

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"Out of Office Hours" Happy Hour No panels, no slides. Just a few hours to meet people in a setting actually built for it. 📅 Wed June 10., 6–8 PM 📍 Westside Motor Lounge meetup.com/refactr-tech/events/314122341 #AtlantaTech

meetup.comOut of Office Hours (Social), Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 6:00 PM | MeetupJoin us for a casual happy hour at **[Westside Motor](https://www.westsidemotorlounge.com/)**[ Lounge](https://www.westsidemotorlounge.com/), a chance to connect with other

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Mike Hauntington
@mhartington.io

Welp it's official, I'm on the hunt for my next role. I learned a lot in the past 8 months, and I'm ready to get back out there for my next role. If you're looking for someone for devrel/devrel-adjacent roles, I got over a decade of experience in developer relations and ready help your team!

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Tue 5/19 · Atlanta: joint meetup with ATL JS, React ATL, Modern Web ATL & Atlanta Vue.js on building with AI. Accessible chat UIs, Copilot for systems design, plus a fireside with Webflow's Neel Shivdasani. Tech Square ATL · 6:30 PM RSVP: meetup.com/refactr-tech/events/314122419 #AtlantaTech

meetup.comDesigning Intelligent Systems: Accessible AI & Real-World Architecture, Tue, May 19, 2026, 6:30 PM | MeetupJoin us for a joint meetup with **REFACTR.TECH**, **ATL JavaScript,** **React ATL**, **Modern Web ATL**, and **Atlanta Vue.js Meetup**. This one’s all about how people are

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📖 Code Reading Club — Apr 15 Read real code, break it down, and build intuition for how systems work. ✨ April session led by Dan Jutan 📍 PrizePicks ATL · 6–8:30 PM ⚠️ RSVP by April 12 👉 www.meetup.com/refactr-tech... #AtlantaTech #DevCommunity

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🍻 Out of Office Hours: Happy Hour New series focused on connecting outside of structured events. Come meet people, hang out, and have real convos. 📅 June 10 · 6–8 PM 📍 Westside Motor Lounge 👉 www.meetup.com/refactr-tech... #AtlantaTech #DevCommunity

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🧠 Joint Meetup: Designing Intelligent Systems 📅 May 19 · 6:30–8:30 PM 📍 Tech Square ATL Homer Gaines — Accessible AI interfaces Allison Higgins — Copilot + systems thinking Fireside chat With ATL JS, React ATL, Modern Web + ATL Vue 👉 www.meetup.com/refactr-tech... #AtlantaTech #AI

Angel Banks
@angelbanks.com

Just wrapped up my time at Microsoft working as a PM with .NET Advocacy. Built developer learning, community, and AI education. Now thinking about what’s next — especially DevRel, but open across program + product. Also spending more time building with @refactr.tech 👽 Happy to connect

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🍜 Bytes & Bites | Fri, March 27 A casual tech lunch for real conversations + community connection. 📍 Krog St Market Drop in, grab food, meet other devs. RSVP 👇 www.meetup.com/refactr-tech... #AtlantaTech #DevCommunity #Networking #Refactr

meetup.comBytes & Bites @ Krog St Market, Fri, Mar 27, 2026, 11:45 AM | Meetup**Join us for our monthly tech lunch meetup—now at Krog Street Market!** Bytes & Bites is a casual, community-driven lunch where technologists of all backgrounds come toge

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Volunteer as a lab mentor at #GitHubCopilot Dev Days Help devs build w/ Copilot in a hands-on workshop. If you use Copilot regularly + enjoy helping others learn, we’d love to have you. 📅 Apr 22 📍 MS ATL - Atlantic Yards Apply: forms.gle/sk7sWPjzRa16... #DevCommunity #AI #AtlantaTech #Refactr

forms.gleGitHub Copilot Dev Days — Lab Mentor Volunteer FormWe’re looking for volunteers to help mentor during the GitHub Copilot Dev Days hands-on lab. Event Date: April 22, 5:30–8:30 PM Location: Microsoft Atlanta (Atlantic Yards) VS Code GitHub Copilot Ag...

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🚀 GitHub Copilot Dev Days A FREE hands-on event focused on practical AI dev workflows. 📅 April 22 ⏰ 5:30–8:30 PM 📍 Microsoft Atlanta (Atlantic Yards) Real demos. You’ll actually build. Spots are running out 👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/1984205023... #GitHubCopilot #AI #AtlantaTech #Refactr

eventbrite.comGitHub Copilot Dev Days | AtlantaBuild with GitHub Copilot at Dev Days Atlanta — real AI workflows, live demos, and a hands-on lab at Microsoft Atlantic Yards. Free event.

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🚀 GitHub Copilot Dev Days | Atlanta A FREE, hands-on event focused on practical AI workflows. 📅 Apr22 ⏰ 5:30–8:30 PM 📍 MSFT ATL (Atlantic Yards) Expect demos and a hands-on lab with VS Code Copilot Agent Mode. Bring your laptop and build. Spots are limited 👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/1984205023...

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🚀 Sponsoring REFACTR.TECH in 2026 Our sponsors help us keep events free, feed the community, and create real spaces for devs to connect beyond just code. If your company wants to support Atlanta’s dev community, we’d love to partner. 👉 Sponsor Interest Form: bit.ly/Sponsor-Inte...

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Join us Mar 12 in Alpharetta for a joint Atlanta meetup focused on practical AI in real dev workflows. Featuring: - digitarald.bsky.social (Microsoft) - jeffbcross.bsky.social (Nx) - Tracy Lee & Elliott Fouts (This Dot Labs) RSVP: www.meetup.com/refactr-tech...

meetup.comJoint Meetup: Practical AI For Enterprise Developer Workflows, Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 6:30 PM | MeetupAI is transforming how we build, ship, and maintain software—but beyond the hype, what actually works in real-world enterprise environments? Join us for an evening explorin