I went to my first meetup in SF today.
I always wanted to go to one of these, and I'm glad I got the opportunity.
It was also my first time in a bar in SF, and this bar had a nice atmosphere inside.
The free food was awesome, I was addicted to the Truffle Honey Grilled Cheese.
A list of people I talked to and met.
- Tommy Dang: very energetic and friendly
- Xinran Waibel: the organizer, very kind, tried to help my underage friend get in
- Madhu Koseke: job interviewing, project got killed, not working but still getting paid cause it's project-based hire
- Saurabh N Mishra: thredUP, talked about the bay area, startups, leetcode
- Damoder Reddy Pannala: adobe
- Hao Xu: CMU, JP Morgan lead SWE, said Affirm was interesting, startups
- Vignesh Kumar Thangarajan : PayPal, went to SJSU
- Chandramouli Nasina: also PayPal
- Dipankar Mazumdar: wrote a book, from Toronto
- Sumanth Munnangi: UC Davis
- Matt Palmer: DevRel @ Mage