About us
Casual, quarterly, in-person meetups in Minneapolis for local people in tech.
WHAT WE DO
We grab a beer, talk shop, and get into real group discussion.
Most of the night is open conversation, broken up by a few short talks given by local peers.
WHO IT'S FOR
Open to anyone in tech/AI who's got opinions. Come ready to discuss.
WHAT YOU'LL GET
Drinks, snacks, and good conversation. Share what you know, steal something new, leave inspired.
TOPICS WE COVER
Real world problems, real solutions. How the "standard best practices" play out in real life.
Some of our past talks:
- "A decade of enterprise cloud evolution: mistakes, trade offs, and what worked"
- "Day one is hard, day 3,000 is harder. Lessons learned from building an infrastructure platform at Cargill"
- "Improving IaC reviews with better signal, less noise in pull requests"
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Upcoming events
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7th Minneapolis Platform Engineering Meetup
Surly Brewing Co., 520 Malcolm Avenue Southeast, Minneapolis, MN, US7th Platform Engineering MLPS October 2026
🗓️ When: Wednesday, October 21st 2026
📍 Where: Surly Brewing
⏰ Time: 6:15 – 9pm CDT
🤝 Hosted by: Tarmac and Co-Sponsored by: ChainguardJoin us in hearing from Hayden Goldstien from Greenhouse Software and a mystery speaker from Blank Metal AI 👻
Speakers and Topics:
— Hayden Goldstien, Director of Platform Engineering @ Greenhouse Software
"Building the Agentic Harness Your Business Actually Needs"
- Finding strategic alignment on what your business actually needs and how to build towards that— Mike Osborne, Senior AI Engineer @ Blank Metal AI
"A Day in the Life of an Agentic Engineer"Agenda:
🍻 [6:15pm] – Networking, Drinks, Food
🖥️ [7-8pm] – Tech Talks, Q&A
👥 [8-9pm] – Food, Drinks, Networking, Open Discussion—
Happy fall and halloween everyone! 🍂 🍁 🎃We're especially excited for this one because Hayden has been an attendee of our meetups for a while now, super interested to hear what he's working on. Our other speakers from Blank Metal have a meetup of their own as well!
— Jake & Mitch
Food and drink provided by Tarmac and Chainguard, attendance is free but please RSVP early as space is limited.
For engineering leaders and senior practitioners who want real, no-fluff conversation about platform work; CTOs, staff/principal engineers, and anyone building toward that. Earlier-career folks who want to learn from them are welcome too.
House rule: share your opinions and be kind to each other. That's it.
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RSVP below - limited space available
53 attendees
Past events
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