What we’re about
### About ACCU York 🛠️📚
ACCU York is a local chapter of ACCU, a global organisation dedicated to professionalism in programming. We meet most months in York to share ideas, grow our skills, and explore the art and science of software development.
Whether you're deep into C++, dabbling in Rust, building in JavaScript, or exploring functional programming and agile practices, you'll find others here who share your curiosity and want to learn alongside you.
What we do:
🧠 Monthly talks and discussions
From low-level systems programming to high-level architecture, we host engaging talks and conversations on a wide range of topics relevant to today's software practitioners.
🔍 Cross-language focus
We’re not dogmatic. C++, Java, Rust, Haskell, Go. It’s all welcome. We believe the best developers learn from multiple paradigms and communities.
🌱 Professional development
We promote lifelong learning and craft in software. Whether you're early in your career or decades deep, ACCU is a place to grow.
🤝 Community and conversation
ACCU York is a welcoming space to meet other developers, share experiences, ask hard questions, and build connections. Free and open to all.
🎤 Propose a talk
We’re always looking for new voices! If you have something to share. From war stories to wild ideas. Propose a talk.
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Join us for thoughtful tech talks, great discussions, and a community that values quality and curiosity in software.
Mastodon - https://fosstodon.org/@accu_york
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/accu-york
Upcoming events
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![ACCU York [December 2025] - "Refactoring: In the Age of AI"](https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/7/1/c/3/highres_531149123.jpeg)
ACCU York [December 2025] - "Refactoring: In the Age of AI"
Patch, The Bonding Warehouse, Terry Ave, York YO1 6FA, York, GB🕡 Doors open 18:30
📋 Intro and admin 18:50
🗣️ Talk by Gareth Lloyd (🕖 start at 19:00)
Details TBD🍕 Food will be provided, let us know if you have dietary requirements
🔗 Finish off with Q&A, networking, and 🍻
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About the speaker: Gareth Lloyd
Gareth Lloyd is a high-performance C++ engineer at Memgraph, where he works on optimizing graph database internals, from lock-free garbage collection to memory allocators, and query execution engines. He's spent years deep in the mechanics of execution engines across multiple platforms (x86_64, armv8, WASM), tackling everything from cache strategies and parallel algorithms to distributed replication correctness.Gareth serves as the ACCU Local Groups Officer, helping local groups across York, Cambridge, Bristol, London, and Oxford. In 2018 he became founding coordinator of ACCU York and has been building spaces for developers to share knowledge and skills ever since.
When he's not chasing nanoseconds or wrangling concurrent data structures, Gareth can be found rock climbing or at the gym. He's passionate about both high-performance systems and high-quality communities, believing that the craft of software engineering flourishes when people connect beyond their keyboards.
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ACCU York is an ACCU local group
Follow on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@accu_york
Venue sponsors: Patch
Community sponsors: A/B Presents, YorkDevelopers group, WiT York, Ministry of Testing York, Tech York, dotNet York, York Code Dojo, Leeds PHP, York Ruby, NYNE Games Dev Kitchen1 attendee
Past events
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![ACCU York [November 2025] - "From Zero to Deployed"](https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/e/2/5/highres_529091813.jpeg)
![ACCU York [October 2025] - "Time Travel Debugging"](https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/e/2/1/highres_529091809.jpeg)
