Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner #4: Sponsored by LOLapps
 Join us on Thursday, June 11, 2009 at Roe in San Francisco (map) for a Girl Geek Dinner about women programmers! We have speakers on Python, Ruby on Rails, game development, and Javascript starting at 6:30pm. Doors open at 5:30pm for drinks, dinner, and networking. Event is FREE for girl geeks, and each girl geek can bring one guy geek. RSVP required on Eventbrite. |
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| Featured Speakers: Sarah Mei, Senior Software Engineer, LookSmart Leah Culver, Software Engineer, Six Apart Dori Smith, Author, Programmer Amanda Wixted, Game Developer, Zynga |
Opening Speaker from LOLapps:
Annie Chang, Co-Founder and Head of Product, LOLapps |
Speaker Presentations & Bios: |
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Sarah Mei has spent ten years doing interesting things with code and data. For the last three years she’s been working in Ruby on Rails, which she loves for how it handles the tedious problems, freeing her to focus on the interesting ones. Sarah is a Senior Software Engineer at LookSmart. Sarah also heads the Open Workshop project at RailsBridge, runs introductory Ruby on Rails workshops for women, and supports people running their own by releasing workshop tools. She has, among other things, a CS degree from UC San Diego, a blog, a husband, a preschooler, a baby, a weakness for puzzle games and pirates, and an apartment with way too many computers in it. |
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Leah Culver was a co-founder and the lead developer of the social network and micro-blogging website Pownce, which was acquired by blog juggernaut Six Apart in November 2008. Now a software engineer at Six Apart, Leah uses her experience with Pownce to develop large scale social applications for future Six Apart projects. While creating the Pownce API she co-authored both the OAuth and OEmbed open API specifications and now maintains the popular Python OAuth library. Leah promotes open source, APIs, and the Django web framework on her blog at leahculver.com. In her free time she likes to play around with new technology and try new restaurants near her home in San Francisco. |
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Amanda Wixted has been developing games for mobile devices since 2005 and has worked on many platforms, mainly focusing on J2ME devices and the iPhone. She has worked for Octopi and Namco Networks, and was the first iPhone developer hired at Zynga, where she currently works. Some of her credited titles include Mafia Wars, Live Poker, Shuffleboard, Pac-Man, Ms Pac-Man, Pac-Man Arcade Golf, JellyPOP, and PoxNora. She lives in San Francisco where she sings in the band Delivery Is Possible and enjoys shopping and starting side project apps with friends. |
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| Annie Chang is Co-Founder and Head of Product at LOLapps, one of the largest companies in the social application space, reaching over 44 MM monthly unique users. LOLapps offers tools that allow anyone to create, personalize and share customized applications on social networks. Prior to LOLapps, Annie was a product manager at BitTorrent and an engineer at Adobe. Annie holds a B.S. in EECS from UC Berkeley. | |
