Come out & hang with fellow Swift developers at Genius's offices in Gowanus. Please arrive at 92 3rd St, Brooklyn.

** PLEASE NOTE: RSVPs will be checked at the door so please include your real name **

Food & drink will be provided.

SPOT 1 - Jamie Roth & Ruchi Jain - Building With Uncertainty: How to overcome common development challenges to build great products
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The Prolific Interactive team helps startups & Fortune 500 brands build premium products. Challenges are plentiful during any product project, but in their recent work with The Wing a co-working & community space for women & an emerging biotech travel security company, the Prolific Product team faced the challenges head-on. Join us as Jamie Roth & Ruchi Jain discuss how they handled uncertainty, simultaneously development of APIs & iOS code, & maximized an agile cadence with a distributed team.

Jamie Roth, is a Senior Product Manager at Prolific Interactive where she is currently leading The Wing Product Team. She's a Venture Capital Associate turned Product Manager & has worked with companies like, Fieldlens, Matchbook, & Quotidian Ventures.

Ruchi Jain, is an iOS Engineer at Prolific Interactive where she's currently working on The Wing Product Team.

SPOT 2 - Nate Kirby: The Promise of a Better Future
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In a shared Javascript & Swift codebase, Genius uses a number of different techniques to try to make reasoning about asynchronous programming easier. In this talk well take a cue from the Javascript world, & discuss how using Promises / Futures in Swift makes our code mode understandable, more composable & more reliable.

Nate Kirby is an Android & iOS developer at Genius. Previously he built the Digg & Bitly iOS apps, among others. In his spare time he enjoys coffee, purchasing gadgets he'll never have enough time to use, & bread making.