I'm the CTO of Meetup and I lead the engineering team with a focus on continuous learning, iteration, and using data to launch software that brings people together to do what matters to them. Our team enables 32+ million members in over 180 countries to organize and meetup in real life around the world.
I think a great deal about engineering empowerment, culture, organization, speed, and tackling technical debt. My AMA will start at 1PM ET today, September 28, so please feel free to Ask Me Anything!
Latest comments (62)
As an organizer of a local non-profit tech meetup (we don't charge member dues), it's really tough to shell out $160/year for our meetup.com membership (or find time to find sponsors just to pay that cost). How can meetup.com reduce this financial burden for folks who just want to create a great free community of tech-minded folks?
What kinds of things do you recommend for CTO’s and VP’s of Engineering to create a tech environment that attracts and retains women in tech roles? How can we help to reverse the concerning trends we have seen in the world of tech and gender discrimination?
What are some of technologies and inventions can change the world in coming future?
How much time do you get to learn new things?
What are your best pisces of advice you would give to young developers?
What's your typical day at work?
(how much of your day is taken by strictly technical things)
What advices would you give fresh graduate who started working in a very young startup (he is one of the first 5) as a lead R&D Engineer?
This is the smallest of questions, but why is the only way to take attendance for a meetup in the mobile web interface? (At least the last time I tried several months ago)
Tell us about how you use data science to make the app better? Do you have any ideas in the pipeline like predicting if user gonna attend a meetup or no, using access to the calendar to suggest some meetup to the user? BTW, UX has become better than last year congrats on that!
How do you collect feedback?