#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 …

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.

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 …

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.

Purpose Purpose of this group is to have designers founders thinking about starting up to meet and networked. Who should Join? Computer Software Engineers Designers (graphics, iOS, Android, Windows), Web Application Front End Engineer Search Engineers Back End Engineers Entrepreneurs Why should you join? Bay Area Designers Startup group will allow designers/Entrepreneus to interact during meetings to exchange ideas, share and exchange contacts.

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 …

The Oppshare Meetup group is for independent-contractors, consultants and employees who trade their time and expertise for more than a paycheck, otherwise known as "Sweat-Equity".   Our monthly MeetUps will feature guest speakers, great locations and refreshments, in addition to an open-forum to learn and share with others the pro’s and con’s of "sweat-equity", "putting-skin-in-the-game" and "consulting-for-equity".   Please join us to network, build connections and share opportunities with othe …

Having never worked at Google, Yahoo, Facebook, or any other Silicon valley company widely applying MapReduce, as former Chief Scientist of several Silicon Valley start-ups, Analytics Architect of The LikeMinds Personalization Server, and former Sr. Software Engineer/Statistician at IBM, all of a sudden I'm being left behind. How about you? We are smart, superbly trained, exceedingly experienced in "big-data", power computer users, and programmers in dozens of now unfortunately passe' programmin …

… You don't have to be a geek, a nerd, a software engineer, or a redditor to join the group.  You just need to have a healthy dose of social anxiety.  

We believe innovation happens when bright minds get together to discuss, share and implement their ideas. Our Mission: We want to enable great minds like yours and help you bring your passion to life with the support of a community of like minded driven individuals. Who we are : A startup community of engineers, designers, investors, advisors and entrepreneurs co-working on innovative ideas big and small. How we operate : We are a startup community facilitating knowledge sharing events, entrepre …

Silicon Valley Perl (SVPerl) is for people interested in the Perl programming language in the Silicon Valley area - engineers and coders, or other users. A previous Perl Mongers group existed in the area until 2005. SVPerl re-established the Perl group in 2010. See SVPerl's web site at http://svperl.org/

Welcome to Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs & Startup Group! Meet other local entrepreneurs /founders/Hackers, VCs, and leaders for the mobile / Internet industry, including Android, iOS, WP, blacberry, HTML5 , Facebook, Chrome, and cloud! Come to our events to network and share your stories. Hear how others have overcome hurdles and achieved success. All are welcome! This fast growing Entrepreneur community is the the place to network with the like minds. And also, its a great place to help individ …

setiQuest is the open source face of the SETI Institute's search for extraterrestrial signals. We have open sourced our software and we'd like to get the community of software and science minded people involved in our quest. Visit setiQuest.org   See About this event.

We like scaling big systems, do you? ArchCamp is a meetup for engineers, by engineers. The goal is to talk about building systems (often at high scale) without having to listen to any sales pitches.   Event format: 20 min - mingle & discussion about the last event 40 min - lightning talks 5 minutes. (laptop setup is on your time, not ours) 60 min - open discussion about the topic du jour We have a meetup every 4 to 6 weeks   The cornerstone event for this meetup is the ArchCamp unconfer …

There's a lot of discussion about SDN and what it means. Hype, tool, or folly. Let's get together and discuss what's real, what's necessary, and what's not.