Steve Chen
Executive Director and Founder · Code & Coffee
Steve Chen founded Code & Coffee, a volunteer-run nonprofit developer community with 80,000 members across 30 cities. The organization hosts more than 300 events a year on an annual operating budget under $6,000.
A former college dropout and coding bootcamp graduate who found nearly every job in his tech career through community, Steve builds meetups that are social by default.
He received CMX’s Community Industry Award for Nonprofit Community Professional in 2026 for his work building communities around Belonging, Trust, and Safety.