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CTO Lunches Plus
The "backroom" small community of CTO Lunches, here are some of our members:
Sean O'Connor
Director of Engineering at Datadog
Dominique Simoneau-Ritchie
ex-VP of Engineering at Wealthsimple
Luke Stevens
Director of Engineering at Jellyfish
Sreejith Chelanchery
SVP of Delivery & Infrastructure Engineering at Dotdash Meredith
Ryan Vice
Founder at Vice Software
Jason Cole
Founder and CTO at Da Primus
Rishi Malik
VP of Engineering at Varo Founder at Backstop
Kendall Miller
Advisor, Board Member, CxO
Victor Rivero
CTO at AAI
Allan Wintersieck
On hiatus, former CTO/Co-founder at Devetry, Partner at DEPT
Dominic Tancredi
CEO at Dom & Tom
Sanjay Gupta
CTO at Autonomiq
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About CTO Lunches
In 2014, Miles Matthias & Kevin Owocki were talking about becoming CTOs of their respective startups and asked the question, "How do computer science people figure out how to lead a team?" We started a monthly lunch with a few people more experienced than us to answer that question. Fast forward a few years, and now the group has 1000+ engineering leaders in an active email and monthly lunch group.
Group Rules
1. Current or former engineering leaders only. No recruiters, no sales people, no gimmicks.
2. The core community will always be FREE.
3. The continual goal for group owners is to add value to the group. New projects might involve sponsors, but the core monthly lunches and email discussions will never be changed, or allowed to be invaded by sponsors or non-engineering leaders.