Community

The groups I help run, the evenings I show up for, and the talks I give. Code is on Projects, writing on Essays.

4 communities(1,498+ members)·6 talks(3,250+ attendees)·2 events(8 photos)

Events

2 events

OpenUK Awards 2026

5 Nov 2026

House of CommonsLondon, UK

Attended the OpenUK Awards 2026 at the House of Commons, the evening celebrating the UK's open source, open data and open hardware community.

Joseph Goksu in black tie outside the Houses of Parliament at night, the Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) lit up behind him, before the OpenUK Awards 2026

Joseph Goksu and a guest in black tie in front of the OpenUK Awards 2026 banner at the House of Commons

Westminster Hall at night, the steps and window of St Stephen's Porch on the way to the OpenUK Awards 2026

Guests at dinner tables in a wood-panelled House of Commons dining room during the OpenUK Awards 2026

OpenUK Awards 2026 ceremony screen under a painting of the House of Commons

OpenUK Rising Ambassadors Evening

10 Sept 2026

OpenUK

Launch evening for OpenUK's first Rising Ambassadors cohort, hosted by Civo, with a short talk on Osprey and on how agentic AI shortens build timelines.

OpenUK Rising Ambassadors 2026 cohort: 27 portraits, including Joseph Goksu — © OpenUK

Collage from the OpenUK Rising Ambassador launch: speakers on stage and the cohort group photo — © OpenUK

OpenUK recap →LinkedIn post →

Communities

4 groups

OpenUK Rising Ambassadors

Rising Ambassador· Two-year appointment (Sep 2026 to 2028)

Selected for OpenUK's first Rising Ambassadors cohort, supporting the UK's open technology community across open source software, hardware, data, standards and AI.

openuk.uk LinkedIn post

Solo Founder Network

Founder· Since 2024

471 members

Community platform for solo bootstrappers building in public.

solofounder.network

AWS Community Builders — IAM & Security

Community Builder· 4 consecutive years (2022–2026)

Global cohort· Ongoing contributions· Track: Security & Identity

Sharing tooling best practices with teams adopting AWS developer platforms.

Reactive Programming Group

Organizer· Since 2019

1,027 members· Quarterly workshops

Modern event-driven systems, observability, and reactive microservices design.

Kommunity YouTube

Talks

slides on Decks →

Building an AI Agent That Detects Financial Crime on AWS

May 2026

AWS Community Day Turkiye 2026·Istanbul, Turkiye·1,000+ listeners

From open-source transaction monitoring to a fine-tuned LLM that writes compliance reports — the architecture, the AWS migration war stories, and the AI agent.

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