Claude Code Meetup Seattle
UPDATE: Due to overwhelming interest in our community event, we will now be hosting the meetup at ThinkSpace Seattle to remove folks off of the waitlist! A special thank you to our friends & partners at ThinkSpace for supporting the community!
About This Event
Calling all Claude Code enthusiasts in Seattle! Join us for a casual evening of lightning talks, demos, and community connection.
This isn't a formal conference—it's a low-key gathering of practitioners sharing what they've built, learned, and discovered while working with Claude Code. Come ready to learn something new and maybe teach the rest of us a trick or two.
Need to Know
📍 Location: Thinkspace Seattle
📅 Date: Thursday, Jan 15
⏰ Time: Doors open at 5:30PM
What to Expect
Lightning talks from community members (~10 min each)
Live demos of real-world implementations
Casual networking with fellow Claude Code users
Q&A with a Claude Code team member
Light refreshments provided
Topics We'd Love to See
Creative MCP implementations
Slash command wizardry
Multi-agent orchestration patterns
Using Claude Code as a harness
Practical, applied, interesting stuff you've figured out
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Lightning Talk Details
We're aiming to cover a range of technical depths, different use cases, and make things accessible and interesting for all. And that's a tall order. We whipped this thing together VERY quickly, so give the speakers grace given the fast turnaround and our lack of context on audience composition for this meetup.
So, caveat aside, here are the speakers (so far—another couple to be added!) and what they'll cover in their talk.
JOHNNY LEUNG
Topic: This talk explores how to use Claude Code’s planning mode to design well-structured vibecoded projects that actually scales. By investing in clear architecture, constraints, and task decomposition up front, you can dramatically increase development speed and enable Claude to successfully one-shot larger features in any codebase.
About Johnny: Software Engineer at Stripe; previously worked in ML/AI at Apple and Riot Games; University of Waterloo graduate
CARLY RECTOR
Topic: Using Puppeteer MCP to upgrade Claude Code's ability to interact with web applications during development. We'll walk through real examples of visual debugging, form testing, and browser automation, showing how Claude can "see" what it's building and iterate continuously on a web UI.
About Carly: Previously an Amazon engineer and startup founder, Carly is currently doing consulting and fractional CTO work for early-stage AI startups, including at PSL.
HAYA SRIDHARAN
Topic: Claude Beyond Code - Why coders are the real bottleneck, what history teaches us about automation, and what the dynamics of the future would look like with Claude Code at its center.
About Haya: CEO and Co-Founder, Chicory AI. Former Apple ML. Dad. Lover of Whodunnits.
LAUREL ORR
Topic: Claude Code connected to MCP Servers has a huge amount of promise to automate all sorts of developer tasks beyond just coding, but the reality is that many engineers have one-off installed dozens of MCP servers and found most of them to be useless. In this talk, we explore a simple idea that bundling tools and skills collectively and sharing across an organization in an easy to install fashion can help developers actually benefit from MCP servers and use Claude Code more productively.
About Laurel: Applied AI at Stacklok. Former Founding Engineer and Head of ML at NumberStation (acquired by Alation). Stanford AI postdoc.
R. CONNER HOWELL
Topic: Why am I slow? How to get expert cycling coaching from Claude Code using DuckDB and an MCP server. I'll show how empowering Claude to drill down on
performance metrics unlocks meaningful insights into cycling training.
About Conner: Product Lead at Eventual, Inc. Previously AWS. Big bike guy.
Hosted By
Community Hosts: Pioneer Square Labs & ThinkSpace
Sponsor: Anthropic (with a Claude Code team member joining!)
Organizer: Lucas Dickey (resident Claude Code fanboy)
Pioneer Square Labs (PSL) is Seattle-based startup studio and early-stage venture fund that partners with founders from day zero to build and launch venture-scale companies. PSL exists to build the next generation of world-changing companies, bringing together exceptional founders, big ideas, and investment capital.
Thinkspace has supported over 600 startups—many founded by former engineers from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta. Several have scaled to millions in revenue, won GeekWire Awards, and been acquired by companies such as Cisco, Oracle, and WebMD. Thinkspace is more than coworking—it’s a launchpad for startups with global impact.