LeadDev Meetup Edinburgh - May 2026

LeadDev Edinburgh meetup

🎟 Please RSVP BELOW! 🎟
Join us for our next LeadDev meet-up on May 12th and enjoy an evening of networking and talks.

Date: Thursday, 12th May
Time: 18:00 - 20:30
Location: Skyscanner, 15 Lauriston Pl, Edinburgh EH3 9EN

Spaces are limited - you must RSVP to attend. We hope to see you there!

⏰ SCHEDULE ⏰
18:00 - Arrival, networking and refreshments
18:45 - Welcome from our host
18:50 - Cost Is an Engineering Problem - Stuart Ross, Director of Engineering at Skyscanner
19:15 - Software Engineering in 2026: a WTF Q&A - Mike McQuaid, Homebrew Project Leader, CTPO at Administrate
19:40 - Break
20:00 - How to monorepo with Nix - Noon van der Silk, Invariant Club
20:20 - Wrap & Networking
20:45 - Close

🎤 SPEAKERS 🎤
Stuart Ross , Director of Engineering at Skyscanner
Talk: Cost Is an Engineering Problem
Stuart Ross, Director of Engineering at Skyscanner, leads the platform behind 160 million monthly users and 100 billion daily pricing requests, and will share how the company moved from tracking spend to engineering for it—treating cost at that scale as an engineering challenge as much as a cultural one—using FinOps and Cost Governance to embed real ownership in teams without slowing innovation.

Mike McQuaid, Homebrew Project Leader, CTPO at Administrate
Talk: Software Engineering in 2026: a WTF Q&A
Mike is an engineering and product leader with 18 years of experience reducing developer friction and scaling open source software used by tens of millions. Currently CTPO at Administrate and Homebrew Project Leader, former GitHub Principal Engineer (employee #232) who led initiatives including Merge Queue and internal developer environment, cofounder and former CTPO of Workbrew. Published author (Git in Practice), writer and frequent speaker (50+ talks) on engineering leadership, open source, automation, remote work and Git. Remote-first since 2009, with hands-on adoption of AI coding assistants and review tooling to increase velocity.

Noon van der Silk, Invariant Club
Talk: How to monorepo with Nix
You've read all the articles. You've discussed it at length and from all angles. You've considered all the tradeoffs. You've created the repo and you're ready to hack. But how are you going to get all your dependencies specified and available? How do you define the interconnected relationships between the projects? Let's take a look at approaching this problem via Nix.

🔹 CODE OF CONDUCT 🔹
As with our conferences, LeadDev Meetups are a safe and inclusive event for all. By attending, you agree to our code of conduct.

🔸 SLACK COMMUNITY 🔸
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🙏🏻 THANK YOU 🙏🏻
Thank you to our Edinburgh meet-up partner Skyscanner.