Building Location Applications With Foursquare

Vikram Gundeti, CTO, Foursquare

Serves as a Chief Technology Officer at Foursquare. He has extensive experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems across various problem domains such as e-commerce, communications, application platforms, customer engagement, and monetization. Prior to Foursquare, he worked at Amazon, where he helped build several foundational systems to power Amazon’s voice assistant, Alexa. Vikram was also the first engineer on the Amazon Alexa team.

Nate Folkert, Senior Staff Engineer, Foursquare

Nate Folkert is a Senior Staff Engineer at Foursquare, where he's been since spotting it trending nearby when checking in at a Soho coffee shop 14 years ago. He builds the server API for Swarm and helps out on special projects. Outside of work, he loves exploring the world (with Swarm, ofc, so is it really outside of work?) and is currently obsessed with finding all of the irl filming locations used in Apple TV's Severance.