AMA with Richard Krueger: NYC edition (Free)

We'll be gathering, meeting and talking all things mobile development with an emphasis on MongoDB Realm but, hey, all topics open.

7 - 7:30pm: Networking, food (somewhat warm pizza) and drinks
7:30 - 7:50pm: Introduction to COSYNC and COSYNC JWT
7:50 - 8:00pm: Announcements
8:00 - 8:30pm: Ask Richard Anything!
8:30 - 9:00pm: More networking and drinks and probably room temperature pizza.

A little about Richard: As CEO of Cosync Inc, Richard Krueger is responsible for building an ultra-private and extensible communication platform for mobile and desktop clients.

Prior to founding Cosync Inc, Richard was at Needly, Inc as the lead mobile architect for the Troop Teams product. From 2000 through 2010, he founded and ran a company called Skinux, which provided a skinning and branding engine specializing in animated translucent interfaces for desktop systems (Windows and Mac OSX). His clients included Kodak (three versions of EasyShare), Adobe, MySpace, and CounterPath.

Richard founded Fauve Software with his brother and wrote Fauve Matisse and xRes - both award winning natural media painting systems, which he sold to Macromedia. While at Macromedia, Richard served as Director of Imaging and help transition the xRes product into Macromedia Fireworks.

Prior to that, Richard spent several years at IBM on the OS/2 Presentation Manager, SAS Institute writing C compilers, and the National University of Singapore working on 3D volume visualization. Richard received a BA in Math from Cornell and an MS in Computer Science from North Carolina State University.

Richard is passionate about developing industrial strength software systems, and solving innovative problems. He draws his inspiration from his two favorite books on software engineering: Tom DeMarco’s Peopleware, and Fred Brooks’ Mythical Man Month.