From Vibes to Engineering: Move Fast Without Breaking Everything
From Vibes to Engineering: Move Fast Without Breaking Everything
Event date: Aug 27, 2026 10-12am
Every startup wants to ship fast and get in front of as many people as possible - that's the right instinct! Vibe coding lets you build something fast, cheap, and good-looking, all at once. But often it’s hiding the cost - debt resurfaces later to the user who installs your app, gives it ten minutes, and leaves with a negative impression that's hard to undo.
This workshop is about finding that hidden debt yourself, before an investor's diligence, a data leak, or a disappointed customer finds it for you. We’ll cover what actually needs to be solid before you ship and what can safely wait in breakout groups, because the answer is different for a solo founder than it is for a ten-person engineering org. Our topics will include spec-driven development, software development process tips, and a production-readiness checklist.
Bring your product. You'll be grouped with founders at your stage - solo founder, small team, or full engineering org, and our CTOs will pressure-test it and coach you on the gaps that actually apply to you. You'll walk away with a concrete, stage-specific list of what to fix.
Note: Our CTOs volunteer their time. To keep this event free of sponsors and ads, we ask for a small token fee to cover breakfast, refundable up to 1 day before the event.
Agenda
10am: Registration
10:20am: Keynote
10:30am: 5 Breakout Circle with CTOs
11:30am: Networking
12pm: End
Keynote Speaker:
In her 20+ year career, Sha-Mayn has built and scaled products and high-performing teams from the ground up, including Google Translate, Google Beijing, and a 50-person engineering org at ed-tech startup TeachersPayTeachers in New York. Today, she works as a fractional CTO/leadership coach across the US startup ecosystem, helping social-impact founders make sharper technical and organizational decisions as they scale.
CTO facilitators:
Sha-Mayn Teh, Fractional CTO, Potluck Tech
Gaurav Manek, Ocellivision CTO
Jesse Sng, Core member Techies
Liyana Sulaiman, Co-founder and CPTO of Pollen
Shariff Raffi, Founder and CPO @ Herding Codes
🤝 About the Organisers
🏢 JDI Group
JDI Group is a Venture Catalyst driving forward the future of innovation. Since 2016, we’ve jump-started the exponential growth of innovative companies – from FinTech and e-commerce to education and enterprise technology. We empower startups and enterprises with strategic knowledge and resources to scale disruptive innovation from Asia to the world.
🤝 About the Community Partners
🏢 Lorong AI
Lorong AI brings together government, industry, and research to build Singapore's AI ecosystem. A collaborative hub for AI practitioners connect, innovate, and shape the future of AI in Singapore throughout curated programs and a supportive community.
🏢 Techies
We are a 3rd space for devs, dev adjacent and people who want to get deep into technical conversations
🏢 Potluck Technologies
Potluck Technologies is a fractional CTO and CPO firm that embeds with early-stage and mission-driven startups. We are former Google engineering and product leaders - Sha-Mayn Teh led engineering teams at Google Translate, Google Beijing, AdWords, and ed-tech marketplace TeachersPayTeachers; Yu Chen led product across Google Search, Maps, and Internet Connectivity, and two coding bootcamps. We work inside teams, not as outside advisors. The goal of every engagement is to make ourselves unnecessary.