This city has capital, venues, conferences and a real inflow of technical people, and it could use more of all of it. The piece I've taken on is the one closest to my hands: the standard we hold the work to, and a memory. Every hackathon, demo day and meetup here starts from zero. A fresh Luma page, a fresh spreadsheet, a fresh Discord, and a talent graph that evaporates the following Monday.
My mission is to close that gap and make Miami a place where serious engineering happens. That means a room that meets every week without fail, standards that hold up anywhere, and infrastructure so that what we build together accumulates.
Tech hubs are not built by incentives. They're built by a critical mass of people who care about the same craft, see each other often enough to hold each other to it, and leave something behind. Four things have to be true. None of them is money.
Community is a function of frequency. Production value matters far less. Hack Night runs twice a week, every week, in Wynwood and in South Beach. No pitches, no panels, no fireside chats, just people building in the same room until something works. Showing up consistently for years is the entire trick, and it's the part most ecosystems skip.
"Sun and fun" is a great brand for a city. An engineering culture needs one of its own, and the work here should be able to stand next to work from anywhere. That means talking openly about architecture, reading each other's code, disagreeing in public, and being unembarrassed about depth.
The single biggest structural gap in Miami tech is that nothing persists. Builders should hold a stable identity across every event they touch, and accrue a reputation that follows them. Hosts should get real tooling. I am actively building this layer with The LAB as the founding design partner.
A hub that only serves people who already made it is a country club. The pipeline matters more than the peak: local talent meeting global standards, career changers finding a first room that doesn't condescend, and students discovering that the ceiling is much higher than they were told.
The next chapter is heavier infrastructure: hackathon-as-a-service tooling that gives Miami a durable talent graph, deeper sponsor relationships that fund the work without distorting it, engagement with local government and non-profits, and eventually putting capital behind the most promising builders in the room. I'm being deliberate about sequence, because the room came first for a reason, but the ambition is not small.
If you're a founder, a sponsor, an operator or an investor who wants Miami to be genuinely good at building software, come talk to me. I'm easy to find on a Tuesday.
Twice a week • Wynwood & South Beach
Upcoming • with The LAB Miami & SimplifAI Studio
Event Series Partner
Venue & Platform Partner
Venue Partner
Event Partner
Hack Night Sponsor
Hack Night is the center of gravity, but it's not the whole picture. A healthy scene needs many rooms, and some of the most important work is keeping the older ones from disappearing.
One of the city's longest-running technical communities. I've been working on preserving its archive so a decade of local knowledge doesn't vanish with a Slack retention policy.
Plugged into the Solana builder community and its hackathon circuit, which consistently produces some of the most motivated builders I meet.
Yes, there's a shop. Scenes need totems, and a good shirt does more for belonging than a newsletter ever will.
