Are you a solo-consultant or running a consulting firm that provides engineering or design in the San Francisco area? Or are you an entrepreneur who might need to contract or partner with such a business? Join our community of people in the area helping to build products and make ideas into reality. Our meetup welcomes engineers and designers from all disciplines and the businesses that support them such as product-based startups and other firms who write custom software. We'll have regular even …

A group for all types of engineers, creative people, architects, and their friends in the San Francisco Bay Area.

This group is about sharing and socializing about mathematical tools for software engineering. Bringing  together Events for the Brightest Talent in Technology to meet to learn new things, listen to outstanding Speakers, and grow their Connections to new levels.

This is a group targeted for Engineers (Dev & QA, S/W & H/W) to learn how to manage effectively, how to manage large teams and how to manage Global teams with different work habits & cultures. I started this group since I noticed a big lack in what I call "Soft skills" for Engineers. I managed a very large team (approx. 1,200 Engineers when I was VP/GM @ Motorola) and learned first hand the major challenges that all Managers (Manager to VP and above) go through. This will be a good group to lear …

This is a group for anyone involved or interested in learning and discussing new frameworks to achieve greater ROI when adopting Software Reuse. Our group will share real enterprise experience; achievements as well as challenges when implementing reuse methodologies. We will also discuss new technology that is changing the way software is developed and allowing Software Reuse to be fully realized with greater ROI then previously possible.

Do you create great software? If so, you should have great and effective help and training and support. Our meetups will include discussions about new and cool help, training and support technologies from embedded video to screencasting to help desk services. We'll be inviting select vendors to discuss their products, look at best practices and just generally share what works (and what doesn't) related to how help, training and support can make or break great software.

Capital Engineering is a group about how we can use technology to bring order to the chaos of finance. It's a group for mobile, web and back-end developers and designers to learn and share their knowledge of building large, multi-client cloud-based systems. Things like architecting single page apps, advanced charting for mobile and Amazon's simple notification service are par for the course, which will typically be a two part talk complemented by food and drink. At Personal Capital we have devel …

Software quality… Testing, Automation, Metrics, Load and Performance. Repeatable, predictable processes and approaches for everything from start up through large scale high availability organizations. Fun and Passionate about Quality.

This group is for software engineers interested in using and contributing to Netflix Open Source Platform components. Netflix has open sourced many components of our Global PaaS that provide best practices on creating and running highly available services in the Cloud.

The focus will be a bit broader but focused on employment for experienced -Software Engineers -Sales Engineers -Enterprise Account Executives -Product marketing -PR and Public Relations for Enterprise Software, PR, SaaS and Telecom. -CPA's (Audit and Taxation) This group is open to both experienced employees and recruiters. Let me know if you would be interested in being an assistant organizer. Here are my current openings https://www.jobscore.com/jobs/marcusronaldi/list

This is a group gathering of 10,000+ of the smartest minds in design engineering. We meet annually at DESIGN West taking place April 22-25, 2013 at the McEnery Convention Center in the heart of the Silicon Valley. Register today at www.ubmdesign.com for your FREE pass by belonging to this meetup group. Use promo code MEETUP today.

BAFUG ( Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group ) is a users group for Open Source Unix like operating systems, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our primary emphasis is on FreeBSD but enthuist of other Open Source Unix such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, NanoBSD, DragonBSD, etc. are welcome. Since BSD is the preferred base operating system for companies like Apple (Apple OS), Juniper, NetFlix and their products, BSD truly is one of the most robust and popular operating systems in the world. Companies, de …

This is a group for Developers and enthusiasts of the Raspberry Pi. Welcoming engineering beginners and experts that want to make the best of this exciting technology.

Where else but the Bay Area could you start a moms group full of engineers, programmers and techies of all stripes? This won't be your typical mommies group! We will promote family friendly tech events and other ideas for sharing technology with your kids or getting away for a while with other tech oriented women. Events we promote may be all over the Bay Area, but many of them will be worth the drive.

Each month we will have a startup engineer or entrepreneur share technology tips, and tricks that helped build their business. This is a highly technical group and in the past we covered topics such as "Scaling PInterest", "Introduction to Data Science", "Making Mobile Development Less Painfull", .... Come join the group and learn about how we build technology startups here in Silicon Valley.

This group is for software engineers interested in discussing Linux related technology. Features and issues with the kernel. Techniques for development. Embedded Linux concepts. Sessions will normally involve a free technical presentation. Thanks to lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP for the Tux picture.

We meet on the second Tuesday evening of each month on topics of interest to software quality engineers, testers, and developers.

Meet other local current or aspiring engineering leaders who are interested in Engineering Leadership as a strategic competency. Discuss engineering leadership and its aspects: team-building, direction-setting, career planning, project experiences, education, certification, recruiting, organization structure, inter-departmental relations, etc.

Micro-lending is hitting its stride and now we have some major problems to solve: whether it be in risk assessment, scale, measuring social impact or in tapping into new signals about the people we serve. This groups focus will be to bring together like minds whom are serving the under or unbanked consumers through software and engineering amazing solutions.

#LSPE Meet-up has been an invaluable platform for engineers responsible for the reliability, scalability and efficient operation of large scale systems! LSPE-W is a much awaited extension of #LSPE providing a collaborative network and learning platform for women in technology. Our Vision: Build a vision for women in technology, and spotlighting thought leaders within the industry Provide problem solving for issues and challenges in Highly Scalable Environments Create a platform that would allow …

Are you someone with an engineering business or an engineering consultant in the Silicon Valley?  Or are you an engineer or entrepreneur who might need to contract or partner with such a business? Silicon Valley Business of Engineering Meetup welcomes engineers from all design disciplines and the businesses that support them such as manufacturing, technical training, and sales of engineering hardware or software tools. We'll have a regular casual mixer event with light refreshments where busines …

Bay Area Search Engineering Monthly Meetup Monthly presentation on topics of interest to search software engineers. Query Recall & Expansion (synonyms, spelling, autocomplete, related search) Machine Learning for Ranking (decision trees) Factor development for ranking (page factors, ecommerce factors) Search metrics (DCG, NDCG, RPref, etc.) Hadoop & Data Mining for Search (bipartite graphs, session analysis).

This group welcomes both business and legal professionals. If you’re in business, you’ll inevitably come into contact with attorneys. Let’s listen to attorneys give presentations on ways to avoid legal pitfalls and/or succeed in business legal matters. In the end, you’ll learn how to avoid a lot of wasted time and legal bills. If you’re an attorney, join our events for legal professionals to help plan the presentations and to strategize, network, and collaborate among fellow attorneys and legal …

Hi I'm the new organizer for the group and I am excited to take on the responsibility. Currently I work with the HandsOn Tech Silicon Valley program. We have worked with Google, Microsoft, and Baynetwork volunteers on a number of nonprofit IT projects and hope to recruit more skill-based volunteers. I want to use this meetup as a way where nonprofits, community volunteers, business leaders can come together and make a difference using technology. Just like my predecessor, I am hoping to bring to …

We meet the 3rd Tuesday of each month at Plug and Play Tech Center to provide networking opportunities for developer, entrepreneurs and large organizations with interest in Health 2.0, mobile health, patient-centered innovation, personal medicine and emerging opportunities in the healthcare industry to come together. SVHealth Meetup is a hub for enterprises, organizations and investors to present opportunities, provide mentorship and engage in conversation with Silicon Valley's developer the ent …

Are you shy? Do your people skills suck? Do you have a hard time making new friends?  Are you tired of your friends trying to "fix" you by telling you to relax, be more outgoing, in other words, "get over your shyness" ? Do you wish you could hang with a group of people who understand you, who won't judge you for being quiet, for how you look, for how you smell, (ok, please don't stink), or if you say the wrong things, or don't say anything at all - in short - for being socially awkward?  Have y …

Wize Real Estate Investor Network brings together investors who are seeking financial freedom via wise real estate investment. Often times investors are overwhelmed by the many different types of investment, enticed by the potential of high return and overlook the risks associated with any type of investment. The ultimate goal of investment of Wize investors is to achieve financial freedom by minimizing risk and investing in positive cash flow real estates which generates passive income for life …

The startupPerColator Series is dedicated to the startup community. Our dynamic and interactive seminar series is a forum for entrepreneurs, investors and other members of the startup ecosystem to learn business and legal best practices, build their networks and grow their businesses. We host the series in our Palo Alto or San Francisco offices, and participants will be offered a savory complimentary breakfast, lunch or evening hors d'oeuvres.