Events & Community
Tarmac organizes and sponsors Platform Engineering meetups in Amsterdam, London, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Los Angeles and the SF Bay Area. They are free, they are in person, and they are for the people doing the work. No sales, no recruiters.
The chapters
Each chapter runs on its own Meetup page, which is where the next date gets posted and where you sign up. Join the one closest to you and you will hear about the next event before it fills.
Netherlands
Our largest chapter, and the one with the deepest bench of speakers. Amsterdam draws platform teams from across the Randstad for talks on internal developer platforms, Kubernetes at scale, and the operational reality behind both.
Recently hosted at JetBrains, with 57 engineers in the room.
Join on Meetup (Platform Engineering Amsterdam, opens on meetup.com)
United Kingdom
A cloud-native crowd of engineering leaders, SREs, and platform engineers. Recent sessions have run from developer experience to what actually holds up when AI moves from a prompt in a notebook to something on call.
Recent talk: "From Prompts to Production: Practical Lessons in AI and Platform Engineering".
Join on Meetup (Platform Engineering London, opens on meetup.com)
Minnesota, US
The chapter closest to home. Tarmac was founded in Minneapolis in 2012, and this is where our engineers, local platform teams, and the Twin Cities cloud-native community end up in the same room.
The 6th Minneapolis meetup drew 71 people to Surly Brewing Co.
Join on Meetup (Platform Engineering Minneapolis, opens on meetup.com)
Arizona, US
A growing Valley chapter for engineering leaders, DevOps practitioners, and platform teams. Sessions stay practical: what teams shipped, what broke, and what they would build differently.
Most recently met at NextSpace in Scottsdale, with 42 attendees.
Join on Meetup (Platform Engineering Phoenix, opens on meetup.com)
LA & Orange County, US
Our highest-rated chapter. In-person events across LA and Orange County for technology leaders working through platform engineering and cloud-native problems on real systems.
Recently met at WorkWell in Irvine, with 61 attendees.
Join on Meetup (Platform Engineering LA & Orange County, opens on meetup.com)
California, US
Our newest chapter, and intentionally the most senior. These are discussion-first gatherings for people building internal developer platforms and owning developer experience at scale, held across San Francisco, the East Bay, and San Jose.
Kicked off in March and has since met in the East Bay and San Jose.
Join on Meetup (Platform Engineering, SF Bay Area, opens on meetup.com)Member counts and ratings read from Meetup in July 2026. Meetup holds the live numbers and the next event date.
What to expect
The format is the same in every city, because it is the part that works: a couple of real talks, then the conversation those talks start.
Talks come from the engineers who built the thing and had to keep it running. Every chapter has the same house rule, and it is on each Meetup page: no sales, no recruiters.
Internal developer platforms, developer experience, Kubernetes, SRE practice, and increasingly what changes when AI systems have to survive production. The through line is what held up under load.
Engineering leaders, DevOps and platform engineers, SREs, and application developers, in the same room. The discussion after the talk is usually the reason people came back.
Tarmac organizes and sponsors every chapter. We do it because these are the people we hire, learn from, and build with. Attending costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Speak, host, sponsor
Every chapter is looking for practitioners with something real to say, and for local companies willing to lend a room. Neither costs you anything, and both put you in front of a senior engineering audience in your city.
Get in touchQuestions, answered
No. Every chapter is free to join and free to attend. Tarmac sponsors the venue and the food. You do need to RSVP on Meetup so the organizers can plan headcount.
On Meetup, always. Each group posts its next event on its own page, which is why every card here links straight there rather than listing dates we would have to keep in sync. Join a group and Meetup will tell you when the next one is announced.
Engineering leaders, platform and DevOps engineers, SREs, and application developers who work on real systems. The groups explicitly ask salespeople and recruiters to sit these out, which is a large part of why the rooms stay useful.
Yes, and we are always looking. If you have shipped something in platform engineering, cloud-native, or applied AI and can talk honestly about what went wrong as well as what worked, get in touch and we will connect you with the organizer for your city.
Often, yes. Chapters have met at offices and venues offered by local companies, including JetBrains in Amsterdam. If you have a space in one of our cities, tell us and we will put you in touch with the organizer.
We have grown to six cities across four countries by following the community rather than a map. If there is a platform engineering crowd where you are and someone willing to help organize, we want to hear from you.
The engineers organizing these meetups are the engineers we put on client work. If you want that bench on your product, start a conversation.