About us
This Meetup group supports the SF Bay ACM Chapter. You can join the actual SF Bay Chapter by coming to a meeting - most meetings are free, and our membership is only $20/year !
The chapter has both educational and scientific purposes:
- the science, design, development, construction, languages, management and applications of modern computing.
- communication between persons interested in computing.
- cooperation with other professional groups
Our official bylaws will be available soon at the About Us page on our web site. See below for out Code of Conduct.
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Article IX: Code of Conduct - from the ACM Professional Chapter Code of Conduct
Harassment or hostile behavior is unwelcome, including speech that intimidates,creates discomfort, or interferes with a person’s participation or opportunity for participation, in a Chapter meeting or Chapter event.Harassment in any form, including but not limited to harassment based on alienage or citizenship, age, color, creed, disability, marital status, military status, national origin, pregnancy, childbirth- and pregnancy-related medical conditions, race, religion, sex, gender,veteran status, sexual orientation or any other status protected by laws in which the Chapter meeting or Chapter event is being held, will not be tolerated. Harassment includes the use of abusive or degrading language, intimidation, stalking, harassing photography or recording,inappropriate physical contact, sexual imagery and unwelcome sexualattention. A response that the participant was “just joking,” or “teasing,”or being “playful,” will not be accepted.2. Anyone witnessing or subject to unacceptable behavior should notify a chapter officer or ACM Headquarters.3. Individuals violating these standards may be sanctioned or excluded from further participation at the discretion of the Chapter officers or responsible committee members.
Upcoming events
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What Breaks First at Scale: Lessons from Real-World Distributed Systems
Valley Research Park, 319 North Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USHybrid event: In-person, Zoom and YouTube
If you want to join discussion remotely, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The zoom link:
To be announced
Join via YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@SfbayacmOrg/streamsAGENDA
6:30 pre-sign in to test and chat
7:00 SFBayACM upcoming events, introduce the speaker
7:15 speaker presentation starts
8:15 - 8:30 finish, depending on Q&AJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion in person at VRP
Abstract:
As modern AI-powered and real-time applications grow, they increasingly rely on complex event-driven infrastructure. This session explores practical lessons learned from operating large-scale messaging and distributed systems in production. We will dive into the critical trade-offs regarding reliability, scalability, and observability in asynchronous environments, and discuss how architectural decisions compound when systems reach global scale.Speaker Bio:
Ajinkya Kher is an Engineering Manager at Meta and former Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft with over 15 years of experience building and leading large-scale distributed systems. Throughout his career, he has worked on highly scaled platforms, including real-time messaging platform powering Microsoft Teams & AI-powered experiences supporting hundreds of millions of users worldwide. At Meta, he leads engineering teams building youth-focused experiences across Facebook and Messenger, with a focus on trust and safety.Ajinkya is currently authoring a book with Manning Publications on designing and operating event-driven systems in production. He previously authored a book on high-performance TypeScript programming and enjoys sharing practical lessons from building software at scale. Beyond his day-to-day work, he enjoys mentoring engineers and supporting technology and innovation programs that help develop future engineering leaders.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajinkyakher
---Valley Research Park is a coworking research campus of 104,000 square feet hosting 60+ life science and technology companies. VRP has over 100 dry labs, wet labs, and high power labs sized from 125-15,000 square feet. VRP manages all of the traditional office elements: break rooms, conference rooms, outdoor dining spaces, and recreational spaces.
As a plug-and-play lab space, once companies have secured their next milestone and are ready to expand, VRP has 100+ labs ready to expand into.
https://www.valleyresearchpark.com/126 attendees
Modern Test Automation & Quality Engineering in Agile Systems
Valley Research Park, 319 North Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USHybrid event: In-person, Zoom and YouTube
If you want to join remotely, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The zoom link:
To be announced
Join via YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@SfbayacmOrg/streamsAGENDA
6:30 Door opens, food and networking (we invite honor system contributions)
7:00 SFBayACM upcoming events, introduce the speaker
7:15 speaker presentation starts
8:15 - 8:30 finish, depending on Q&AJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion on:
Talk Description:
As software delivery accelerates, traditional testing approaches struggle to keep pace with Agile and DevOps environments. Modern systems demand more than automated test cases—they require a shift toward quality engineering practices that embed reliability, scalability, and continuous feedback into every stage of development.
This talk explores how test automation has evolved from a validation activity into a core engineering discipline. We will examine how to design resilient automation frameworks, integrate testing seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines, and build quality signals that provide real-time insight into system health.
Through practical examples, the session will highlight strategies for moving beyond UI-driven automation toward API, integration, and workflow-level validation. It will also cover key aspects such as test data management, environment stability, performance considerations, and accessibility as part of continuous quality.Attendees will gain a clear understanding of how to align automation with Agile delivery, reduce flaky tests, and create scalable, maintainable solutions that support rapid releases without compromising quality.
This session is designed for engineers and quality professionals who want to modernize their automation approach and build systems that are reliable by design, not just tested after the fact.Speaker Bio:
Shri Lakshmi Rajagopal, a Senior Quality Engineering Leader and Test Automation Architect. She has over 14 years of experience in software quality engineering, automation architecture, and engineering leadership. Her work focuses on designing maintainable automation frameworks, enabling Agile quality practices, and mentoring teams to adopt modern testing strategies. She is passionate about sharing practical insights that help teams build reliable and scalable software systems.LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/shri-lakshmi-rajagopal-a5012428
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Valley Research Park is a coworking research campus of 104,000 square feet hosting 60+ life science and technology companies. VRP has over 100 dry labs, wet labs, and high power labs sized from 125-15,000 square feet. VRP manages all of the traditional office elements: break rooms, conference rooms, outdoor dining spaces, and recreational spaces.
As a plug-and-play lab space, once companies have secured their next milestone and are ready to expand, VRP has 100+ labs ready to expand into.
https://www.valleyresearchpark.com/14 attendees
System Engineering: The Role of AI and Software in Emissions Reduction
Valley Research Park, 319 North Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USSystem Engineering Our Way to a Sustainable Future: The Role of AI and Software in Emissions Reduction
Hybrid event, in person, Zoom, and YouTube,
If you want to join remotely, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The Zoom link:
To be announced
Join via YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@SfbayacmOrg/streamsAGENDA
6:30 Door opens, food and networking (we invite honor system contributions)
7:00 SFBayACM upcoming events, introduce the speaker
7:15 speaker presentation starts
8:15 - 8:30 finish, depending on Q&AJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion on:
Talk Description:
Tackling climate change isn’t just a moral imperative—it’s an optimization problem. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), the gold standard for measuring environmental impact, has historically been slow, expensive, and data-starved. But AI can change that. By automating data collection, predicting missing inputs, and scaling complex calculations, “life cycle LLMs” can make LCA fast, accurate, and actionable. With better system-level visibility, organizations can identify emission hotspots, avoid false trade-offs, and make decisions that genuinely move the needle on net-zero goals.
Software itself is part of the problem, but also a powerful lever. As computing’s carbon footprint grows, developers can embed sustainability into their work through efficient algorithms, leaner data flows, and low-carbon infrastructure choices—what some call “green coding.” More importantly, software can multiply impact: powering smart grids, optimizing logistics, or modeling entire supply chains. This talk makes the case that the biggest climate wins won’t come from treating sustainability as charity—they’ll come from treating it like the ultimate systems engineering challenge.Speaker Bio:
Johanna Behm is a “recovering” event planner on a mission to help the events industry cut up to 10% of global carbon emissions by automating sustainability tracking and operational workflows for live events.A native of Finland, Johanna grew up in a culture where sorting household waste into seven bins and minimizing waste was simply part of daily "workfow". She was astonished by her industry's wasteful nature and realized majority of sustainability-related problems can be attributed to poor planning and information gaps. While recruiting technical talent for her startup Envire, Johanna also realized that most software engineers are not aware that their skills could be deployed to solve some of the most pressing environmental issues and social challenges our whole planet and humanity is facing today.Prior to his work at Google, Saurabh gained valuable experience as an SRE at Okta. He is also a thought leader in SRE and cloud technologies, a mentor for startup entrepreneurs through the Google for Startups program, and a frequent speaker on the topic of foundational thinking for scalable and reliable system infrastructure.
envire.ai---
Valley Research Park is a coworking research campus of 104,000 square feet hosting 60+ life science and technology companies. VRP has over 100 dry labs, wet labs, and high power labs sized from 125-15,000 square feet. VRP manages all of the traditional office elements: break rooms, conference rooms, outdoor dining spaces, and recreational spaces.
As a plug-and-play lab space, once companies have secured their next milestone and are ready to expand, VRP has 100+ labs ready to expand into.
https://www.valleyresearchpark.com/10 attendees
Beyond the Buzzwords: The Real Engineering Challenges of Augmented Reality
Valley Research Park, 319 North Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USHybrid event: In-person, Zoom and YouTube
If you want to join remotely, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The Zoom link:
To be announced
Join via YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@SfbayacmOrg/streamsAGENDA
6:30 Door opens, food and networking (we invite honor system contributions)
7:00 SFBayACM upcoming events, introduce the speaker
7:15 speaker presentation starts
8:15 - 8:30 finish, depending on Q&AJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion on:
Talk Description:
Talk description: Augmented Reality is often talked about in terms of its potential, but what does it actually take to build it? This talk offers a candid, high-level look at the engineering challenges that make AR glasses hard, from power and thermals to silicon design, and what it means to optimize at every layer of the stack to bring a product to life.Reading material/blogs:
https://www.meta.com/blog/orion-ar-glasses-augmented-reality/
https://www.meta.com/blog/boz-to-the-future-episode-22-wearables-orion-ray-ban-meta-alex-himel/
https://www.meta.com/blog/orion-compute-puck-reality-labs-next-computing-platform/
https://www.meta.com/blog/orion-custom-silicon-chips-ip-blocks-accelerators-ar-algorithms-energy-efficiency-reality-labs/Speaker Bio:
Shanmathi Natarajan is a Silicon Power Architect with experience at Meta Reality Labs, where she led end-to-end power architecture for next-generation AR glasses. Her work spanned the full silicon lifecycle, from early-stage SoC power modeling and architectural exploration to post-silicon validation and real-world correlation, with a focus on turning high-level design intent into measurable efficiency gains on final silicon.
Her work includes driving significant use-case power reductions on wearable SoCs, directly enabling better battery life and user experience on AR devices. Her expertise spans low-power design methodologies, hardware-software co-design, DVFS and power state architecture, and cross-layer optimization across compute, memory, and interconnect subsystems.
Her research interests lie at the hardware-software boundary, where low-level architectural decisions in AR glasses, GPU architectures, and energy-constrained systems translate directly into product-level impact.https://www.linkedin.com/in/shanmathi-natarajan
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Valley Research Park is a coworking research campus of 104,000 square feet hosting 60+ life science and technology companies. VRP has over 100 dry labs, wet labs, and high power labs sized from 125-15,000 square feet. VRP manages all of the traditional office elements: break rooms, conference rooms, outdoor dining spaces, and recreational spaces.
As a plug-and-play lab space, once companies have secured their next milestone and are ready to expand, VRP has 100+ labs ready to expand into.
https://www.valleyresearchpark.com/11 attendees
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