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?
With an increased focus on mobile across the industry, and many mobile carriers deploying IPv6 to improve their customer experience, what is Meetup's strategy for enabling IPv6 on its services?
Do you still code? If yes, for what purpose?
I don't have time to code day to day anymore but I still read a lot of code and code comments on PRs!
Would you hire me?
I don't know -- send us over your resume! :)
meetup.com/jobs/
lol that is too easy, just hire me :(
Are you guys using Kotlin in production? If so, what parts of the app have been done with it?
We are but a very small amount of our app is written using Kotlin so far. We're experimenting by adding some new code in Kotlin as we have to add new features. We love it so far.
What would be your advice to a startup, from technology point of view, which is just starting out (ideation or MVP phase)?
Assume everything you build you're going to throw away and that's ok. In fact, you'll probably throw it away at least twice before you're ready (from a product market fit perspective) and need to (from a scale perspective) build something that needs to scale and you know you don't want to throw away. So, in those early stages, don't worry at all about being perfect, just be good enough to move fast and have a high quality user experience and plan that you're going to throw everything away, probably multiple times.