Berlin

November 4 & 5, 2024

New York

September 4 & 5, 2024

Vic is a software engineer and indie software maker from Raleigh, North Carolina. He’s a dad, runner, violinist, and is addicted to acquiring new hobbies. He has run the tech side of North Carolina’s extremely popular Rare & Vintage Beer Festival for the last 11 years. Vic was previously in the scientific communications space and a technical cofounder of Research Square preprints, an inaugural recipient of the Fast Company “Brands that Matter” list for accelerating research communication during the pandemic. In his spare time, you can find Vic building LEGO with his family or out at the plant nursery adopting yet another plant.

From zero to "Brands that Matter" - improving scientific discovery during a pandemic

Vic Vijayakumar tells the story of building a world-class platform starting from zero, and how technical decision-making isn't always glamorous.

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