Overview:
11/5: Google Office Hours
11/6: Opscode Tech Talk
11/7: Microsoft Office Hours
11/7: Groupon Tech Talk
11/8: Zynga Office Hours
11/8: Redfin Tech Talk
Google Office Hours
11/5; 12:00pm – 1:30pm; Atrium
Opscode Tech Talk: Building Real-World Teams & Real Distributed Systems
11/6; 6:00pm – 7:00pm; EEB 125
Christopher Brown, CTO at Opscode, a local Seattle-based startup, will talk about his experiences hiring for, designing, and implementing large-scale services like Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Opscode Chef. He’ll cover both the technical design aspects of fault-tolerant, scalable distributed systems, and the human aspects of building teams and working in small, fast-paced operations-focused environments. This will be highly interactive, with questions welcome at any time.
Opscode will be providing a taco/taco salad bar from Taco Del Mar, with both meat and vegetarian options.
Microsoft Office Hours
11/7; 1:00pm – 3:00pm; Atrium
Groupon Tech Talk: Computational Marketing with Vinayak Hedge
11/7; 6:00pm – 7:30pm; EEB 125
Groupon’s VP of Engineering in Seattle, Vinayak Hedge, to talk about Groupon and one of it’s newest ventures – computational marketing!
Zynga Office Hours
11/8; 12:00pm – 3:00pm; Atrium
Redfin Tech Talk
11/8; 6:00pm – 7:30pm; EEB 125