Golang Warsaw #59 (Summer) [EN]

We are back in 7N (Puławska 182, Warszawa). Looking forward meeting you all!

As usual, please register or remove yourself from the participants lists if you cannot come. We order food and drink for every meetup according to the number of attendees.

As always, looking for speakers is a challenge, so please help us finding them. Submit a talk, ask your colleague or a coworker! 3 formats: 15, 30, 45. How to submit talk? Contact @Wojciech B, @jakubdal, or @lukasz on the gophers.slack.com

⭐ AGENDA
18:15 - 18:30 - Warming up
18:30 - 18:45 - Meetup Opening
18:45 - 19:30 - How to start a VC-backed startup
19:30 - 19:50 - Break / Your announcements (OpenSource, event etc.); Developer, engineer, lead lost & found || Grab coffee/beer/food;
19:50 - 20:05 - 7 years of talking to people
19:05 - 20:20 - Clean APIs with Huma Rocks!
20:20 - ... - slowly moving to a place close by

⭐ TALKS
▪ How to start a VC-backed startup (Jacek Migdał @Quesma) - Almost all of today's big technology companies were financed by Venture Capital. It is a proven framework, though frequently misunderstood. In this talk I would explore career possibility of founding your own VC-backed startup. It is common in world, but less explored option in Poland. Will provide actionable steps based on my experience.

⚡️ LIGHTNING TALKS
▪ 7 years of talking to people (Jakub Daliga @StrongDM) - Turns out, an engineering career is less about writing code and more about talking to people. And what better occasion to boost your career than an informal meeting about your area of expertise? Due to popular demand in the last feedback form, Jakub will talk about his ups and downs as a (not necessarily) public speaker. Spoiler: it's more important to give a talk than to do it well 😉
▪ Clean APIs with Huma Rocks! (Lukasz Gut @Grafana Labs) - APIs are eating the world. In this quick lightning talk, I'm gonna talk about the way I structure my server code and who a cool framework at the same time!

🚀 SPEAKERS
▪ Jacek Migdał - Jacek started a career as an engineering intern at NVIDIA CUDA and Facebook. He joined pre-revenue startup Sumo Logic as ~20 Sumo Logic in the San Francisco Bay Area. He moved back to Poland and opened an office with 80+ full-time engineers. We optimized gross margins on AWS and launched two products.
He left when Sumo Logic was valued at around $300mln ARR and taken private by Francisco Partners for $1.7 billion.
Currently, Jacek co-founded the startup Quesma - a database gateway.
▪ Jakub Daliga - I started programming in Go because that's the internship I've got in 2016. Being the lucky early adopter I had many opportunities to work with great people for great organizations. Some of which I have even capitalized on.
I love teaching people about things I'm passionate about. I recently got into cooking.
▪ Lukasz Gut - I started my professional journey as an intern in Sperasoft where I worked on the Mortal Kombat franchise. Most of my work was game-engine related. Later, I moved to Aptiv, where I worked on a standalone data visualization platform and data fusion algorithms for autonomous driving. Think in the area of occupancy grid and probabilistic theories. My most recent work experience was with TikTok and Grafana Labs, where I develop apps and distributed systems.

💪 SPONSORS
We have stickers, beer, non-alcohol refreshments, and food thanks to our sponsors Spacelift.io and GoGoApps.

Kudos to GoBridge for the support.

⚡SUBMIT YOUR TALK
Contact us on gopher slack, channel #poland or #poland-warsaw:
@lukasz, @jakubdal, or @Wojciech

⚡JOIN US
The slack is the best place to get in touch with the community:
▪ Slack: #poland-warsaw and #poland on https://invite.slack.golangbridge.org/

⚡ PREVIOUS TALKS
▪ Recordings:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGttUF2KmcTU2fwH8wJ5srA/videos
▪ Previous talks:
https://github.com/golangpoland/meetup_golang_warsaw