Global Engineers Meetup: From Tokyo To The World!

Welcome to Mercari's Global Engineer's Meetup! This is an online event to gather engineers in the Tokyo area to share technical knowledge and network with the community. Each event we'll have tech talks about a different theme & networking time.

🌏 Theme: From Tokyo To The World

What are some of the interesting challenges of distributed software development teams and international products? At Mercari, we have a whole team dedicated to building our US product from Tokyo (we call it US@Tokyo! 🇯🇵 ⇒🇺🇸 ). This Global Engineers Meetup we'll have engineers from Mercari and other companies that are working from Tokyo but delivering products to other countries to talk about some of their unique developments.

🎤 SPEAKERS & TALKS

✦ 1) Next Generation Mercari apps
The Mercari US mobile team is in a transition period now. I'll introduce the React Native rewrite project that is happening now: Why? How? What's next?
→ Speaker: Tsuyoshi Yoshioka, Mobile Software Engineer at Mercari US@Tokyo. Since joining Mercari in 2016, Yoshioka has worked on the Mercari US app for 5 years.
https://twitter.com/tsuyogoro

✦ 2) Building Mercari’s Same Day Delivery feature in the US from Tokyo
Since last year, we have been building a Same Day Delivery feature called Mercari Now. I’ll be talking about the cross geo collaboration of the team and the challenges involved in remotely developing shipping related features.
→ Speaker: Anurag Bharadwaj, Shipping Backend Engineer at Mercari US@Tokyo. I love building products!! I like to do competitive programming in my spare time. I play professional cricket in Japan and in general like to play all kinds of sports.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chatrasen/

✦ 3) How a global team works in SmartNews
As a mobile lead in a cross timezone product team, I want to share some experience about how the team works on a daily basis and also how it changes before and after the pandemic. I hope some of the points could help you. And also hope to get more feedback.
→ Guest speaker: Yanan Cheng (Nick), US Growth Mobile Team Lead / iOS Engineer at SmartNews. Team supporter, code brewer by day. Product polisher, guitar re-learner by night.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickcheng/

🗓 AGENDA

17:30 ~ 17:55: Open room for meet & greet (networking time before the event starts)
17:55 ~ 18:00: Welcome notes & intro by Tutti
18:00 ~ 18:20: Tech Talk 1 + Q&A (total: 20min)
18:20 ~ 18:40: Tech Talk 2 + Q&A (total: 20min)
18:40 ~ 19:00: Tech Talk 3 + Q&A (total: 20min)
19:00 ~ 20:00: Networking time

🎟 REGISTRATION & ACCESS

This meetup will be held online on Remo. There's no need to install anything and you can access the event on your browser, but please complete your registration on this page before the event: https://forms.gle/uR8JK5ktkXSbEeFs8

📌 Who can join this event?

This event is free and targeted to professional engineers or anyone studying or working in roles related to engineering and technology (entrepreneurs, product managers, designers, etc).

This event is for community building and knowledge sharing. We politely ask that recruiters and IT service consultants looking to hire or sell their services do not come to this event. If we identify any form of harassment or inappropriate behavior that does not comply with the event purpose, we will ask you to leave.

MercariDev Meetups strives for a safe, diverse and inclusive space. Although the event and talks will be held in English, we are a multilingual group, and we welcome anyone interested in the main purpose of the event regardless of nationality, language, or skill level.

✉️ Read More & stay in touch!

About us: https://www.mercari.com/about/
Mercari US Engineering blog: https://medium.com/mercari-engineering
Mercari US on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mercarius/
Careers in Tokyo: https://careers.mercari.com/search-jobs
Careers in the US (for US residents): https://www.mercari.com/careers/#openings