{"id":17113,"date":"2023-08-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/blog\/?p=17113"},"modified":"2023-08-08T09:13:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T13:13:56","slug":"recording-powering-the-platform-meetup-engineering-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/blog\/recording-powering-the-platform-meetup-engineering-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Recording | Powering the Platform: Meetup Engineering Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hear from Meetup\u2019s engineering team, the crew working behind the scenes to power the platform and make improvements show up on screen! Don\u2019t miss this Meetup Live recording with Rajib Ahmed, CTO &amp; CPO; Eujin Measson, Director of Data; and Ronlee Tehranian, Director of Product Design. 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