Startup Meetup - Sydney - Coding in the Open: Open Source at Microsoft

Rita, Steven and Felix are Open Source Engineers at Microsoft, hacking away with engineering teams inside Microsoft, open source communities, and startups. At this meetup, they will candidly and openly talk about how open source is used inside Microsoft, how they team up with communities outside the Microsoft ecosystem, and what the Redmond company is doing to make developers working in a bunch of diverse environments happy.

Agenda:

3-4pm: tours of muru-D and we will also talk about the muru-D accelerator program and the application process. muru-D provides $40K investment funding (backed by Telstra), 6 months in our working space, plus extensive mentor networks and access to investors. The next program starts in February; application opens Sept 28 - Oct 31. Come find out more.

4-5pm: guest speakers - Coding in the Open: Open Source at Microsoft

5-6pm: networking

Bios

Felix Rieseberg is an Open Source Engineer based in San Francisco, working on sophisticated web app development, modern DevOps workflows, and cross-platform development. Previously, he provided engineering guidance to startups in the Silicon Valley, worked as a developer evangelist with Microsoft Germany, and was editor in chief for one of Europe’s biggest Apple magazines. He holds a Master of Science from University of Oxford’s Internet Institute and is famous for eating way too much ice cream.

Rita Zhang is an open source engineer/architect in San Francisco, working on strategic engagements with customers and partners using emerging open source technologies, and sharing technical collaterals with the open source community. Prior to that, she was an architect at GE delivering features for Industrial internet and was an Enterprise consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services. During her spare time, she develops new smart home gadgets for her startup.

Steven Edouard is a Software Engineer based out of San Francisco, focusing on open source integrations with Microsoft Azure. In addition to open source projects, he also assists Y-Combinator companies with getting their deployments running on Azure. Steven was previously a test engineer on the .NET runtime team. He is a hacker at heart and in his free time he works on fun side projects. Aside from engineering Steven enjoys sailing in San Francisco Bay.