Mike Kasprzak 🍁 @distraction.engineer Former professional GameDev (1999+); IGF Finalist (2009); Retro, DIY, Repair, C64 nerd; AKA PoV, PoVRAZOR, VA3POV 📻; They/them; 🍁
Caretake and co-creator of the @ludumdare.com online game jam
Empathy is punk! Trans rights! 🏳️⚧️💜🤘
Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social 🖥️ Gaming Youtuber, Media Critic, Philosopher King 🤴
💙 Patreon.com/Hbomb
📩 Enquiries to contact@hbomb.zone
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Andy Grove @andygrove.io Apache Arrow & DataFusion PMC Member. Original creator of Apache DataFusion.
Joy Gao @joygao.bsky.social software engineer at ClickHouse; prev: Figma, WePay
long-form ✍️: https://expertofobsolescence.substack.com
Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net Principal Engineer, Founder, Angel, Advisor, OSS.
LFAI&data: OpenLineage, Marquez, ASF: Parquet, Arrow, Iceberg, 🐖
he/him.
Me: https://julien.ledem.net/
Blog: https://sympathetic.ink
Gwen Shapira @gwenshap.bsky.social Founder of SaaS Developer Community and Nile Database. 
shikhar @schmizz.net Making streams serverless @s2.dev
Josh Wills @spite.vc Forward Deployed Angel Investor
https://github.com/jwills
Jakob Homan @jakobhoman.bsky.social Software engineer. Data infra guy. Apache Committer/PMC on various projects. WebAssembly enthusiast. Also cinema, street photography and sarcasm...
No relation to that fascist fuck.
Paul Butler @paulbutler.org I build jamsocket.com and write digest.browsertech.com
Hannes Mühleisen @hannes.muehleisen.org I like databases and boats. Co-creator of @duckdb.org, Co-Founder and CEO DuckDB Labs.
Adi Polak @adipolak.bsky.social Code | Test | Deploy | Get paged
Data streaming, Machine Learning and AI app intensive Systems
Craig @craigkerstiens.com Product @crunchydata previously MSFT/Citus/Heroku. Talk a lot about Postgres and startups. Why Postgres? https://www.crunchydata.com/why-postgres
Teej @teej.bsky.social building Downlink (yc w24)
William Morgan @williammorgan.me Chief Email Outputter at Buoyant. Linkerd spokesnerd. Twitter refugee and former engineer
📍Austin, TX
Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Building digital infrastructure that lasts with #linux #virtualization #containers #kubernetes #gnome
Head of R&D @loopholelabs, on the board @vanlug and member […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social Database Research @ ClickHouse
Associate Prof. of Databases @ Carnegie Mellon.
Gunnar Morling @gunnarmorling.dev Technologist @ Confluent · Ex-lead of Debezium · Spec lead of Bean Validation 2.0 · Creator of Hardwood, kcctl, JfrUnit, MapStruct · Java Champion · morling.dev · 🚴
rmoff 🏃♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net Shitposting & Memes.
Data & Stuff.
#dataBS #trailrunning
✍️ https://rmoff.net 🔗 https://rmoff.info
(DMs closed because of stupid UK age verification requirements).
Chris K Wensel @chris.wensel.net Developer of:
- https://retrofit.sh
- https://chris.wensel.net/project/
Co-Organizer of https://lu.ma/sf-distsys
Ramana @vramana.dev Staff Software Engineer. Interested in #rust, #typescript and #golang. https://blog.vramana.com
Tobias Müller @tobilg.com Serverless enthusiast. DuckDB afficionado. AWS Community Builder.
Building @sql-workbench.com @ownstats.com @learningduckdb.com
Blog: https://tobilg.com
Apurva Mehta @apurvamehta.com Co-Founder and CEO of @responsive.dev. I write about stream processing and company building. Views are my own.
🌐 apurvamehta.com
joschi @joschi.work 🦣 Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@joschi
🐙 GitHub: https://github.com/joschi
Eric Sammer @esammer.bsky.social CEO @ Decodable. Systems, databases, stream processing. O’Reilly author, ex-Cloudera, Splunk, Rocana, and others.
https://www.decodable.co
Ananth Packkildurai @ananthdurai.bsky.social Editor Data Engineering Weekly; subscribe www.dataengineeringweekly.com. In Prgress, LakeByte
Shivansh Vij @shivanshvij.com CEO @loopholelabs.io
Ryanne Dolan @ry.codes BigTech BigData infra @ LinkedIn, Twitter, Cloudera
Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com VP of Data Engineering at Dash0. Previously, founder of Polar Signals (acquired by Dash0).
Adam Boscarino @ajbosco.dev Cat Dad, SciFi/Fantasy Nerd, Cocktail Enthusiast, Sports Fan, Data Engineer
Xuanwo @xuanwo.io ASF Member.
Apache OpenDAL PMC Chair.
VISION: Data Freedom.
Working on #RBIR.
More: https://bento.me/xuanwo
Danica Fine @thedanicafine.bsky.social Opinions my own.
Developer Advocate. 🥑 ❄️
http://linktr.ee/thedanicafine
ram @sriramsub.bsky.social Founder and CEO at Nile (https://www.thenile.dev/). Previously: VP of Engineering at Confluent. Believe to win.
Tino Tereshko @tinot.bsky.social Available for coffee dates
Data infra AI
Ex MotherDuck Firebolt BigQuery. Papa. Husband to
@emilyvajda
Ultra-competitive C class cyclist
Diptanu Choudhury @diptanu.bsky.social CEO @tensorlake.bsky.social Past - AI Infrastructure at Facebook, LinkedIN, Hashicorp, Netflix
Yaroslav Tkachenko @sap1ens.com Data Streaming Systems | Fractional Consulting, Advising, Training
Website & blog: https://sap1ens.com
Newsletter: https://streamingdata.tech
Teaching at: https://streamacademy.io
Oliver Gould @olix0r.net Production systems.
System productions.
web: https://olix0r.net
Don't believe anything that @ver.ooo says.
Jack Vanlightly @vanlightly.bsky.social Researcher, advisor, writer, formal verification eng @ Confluent.
Everything data (dist sys, databases, messaging, data eng/analytics).
https://jack-vanlightly.com, https://www.hotds.dev
Credit: ESO/B. Tafresh
Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social on software infrastructure @theconsensus.dev.
theconsensus.dev
Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social Podcaster, Youtuber @TheGeekNarrator
(https://youtube.com/@thegeeknarrator?si=yN0zWNDAScJKv_QZ) Databases, Stream processing, Distributed systems Software Engineer @Confluent
Mike Driscoll @medriscoll.com Founder @ RillData.com, building GenBI. Lover of fast, flexible, beautiful data tools. Lapsed computational biologist.
ahmet alp balkan @ahmet.dev working on inference infra @ baseten.co
ex-linkedin/twitter/googlecloud/azure
dist sys enthusiast
github.com/ahmetb
Jeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev Principal engineer @ Cloudflare working on Observability Things
Location: Squamish, BC 🇨🇦
Website: https://jeremymorrell.dev/
Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social VP DevRel at Confluent. Relentless hobbyist. Married to @swimflythrive.bsky.social. Father of three, grandfather of four. Believer in Christ. Opinions should be your own.
Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh Dad. Technical Author, Data Engineer.
Data practitioner (20y) • Writing at ssp.sh since 2015.
Focused on the craft of data engineering & storytelling.
📚 vault.ssp.sh • 📖 @dedp.online
❯ #dataengineering, #opensource, #writing, #obsidian, #neovim
Jeremiah Lowin @jlowin.dev CEO @prefect.io. Building FastMCP. Mostly harmless.
Will Larson @lethain.com Write at lethain.com. Author of An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer, and An Engineering Executive’s Primer. Worked some places.
Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social Works with data, runs with swords.
David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com CEO, Expanso. Prev: Protocol Labs, MSFT, K8s, Kubeflow, GOOG, AMZN, etc. 4x founder/CEO. The universe is a vector in Hilbert space.
James Arthur @thruflo.com CEO & Co-founder @electric.ax
Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social PRQL Evangelist, Chief Excel Officer, MAD* Scientist, Pythonista, Rustacian (*: ML, AI, Data)
Sirupsen @sirupsen.bsky.social ceo & cofounder of turbopuffer.com. prev infra @Shopify 🇩🇰->🇨🇦
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Jaz @jaz.sh Jasmine (Jaz)
Gender Nomad
IRC made me gay
Reject drab, wear bright colors and play fast
Former Platform Engineering Lead at Bsky
28. she/her 🏳️⚧️
BSky Stats- https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
https://github.com/jazware
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
Lucas Cavalcanti @lucascs.bsky.social A software developer... ele/dele. he/his
Coincidence @coincidence.games Coincidence is a cooperative game studio created by ex-Zachtronics developers. Zach Barth is no longer teaching high school and is making games again.
Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com Matthew Seiji Burns is a writer and director who works on game-like things and other things.
Author of the novel Process and the visual novel Eliza.
https://www.tuneandfairweather.com/collections/process-a-novel
Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. According to Field of Schemes, "tech exec and Oakland A's fan" -- but more of an Oakland Ballers fan now.
Alexandre Medeiros @alemedeiros.bsky.social Apenas um proletário gourmet
Rafael Ferreira @rff.bsky.social 
@andrioni.bsky.social @andrioni.bsky.social 
Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz R, data, 🐕, 🍸, 🌈. He/him.
Aphyr @aphyr.com Main account: @aphyr.woof.group.ap.brid.gy.
If we're friends, do me a favor? Follow @ap.brid.gy; then mention @aphyr.woof.group.ap.brid.gy. That'll let me follow you from my main account over on Mastodon.
Peter Alvaro @palvaro.bsky.social Crackpot, nincompoop, magpie, pedant
mostly @palvaro@discuss.systems
Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com Associate Professor at @cst.cam.ac.uk, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” (O’Reilly). he/him
Hillel @hillelwayne.com Developer educator at @antithesis.com. Formal methods, software history, chocolatiering. DMs open. *Logic for Programmers* now out! https://logicforprogrammers.com
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/
Caitlin @cviiitie.bsky.social South African in France. Interested in Health Innovation, Data Science, R and Data visualisation.
Vicki @vickiboykis.com Founding list[float] engineer. Recsys. Personalization. Infra. Systems. Normcore code. Nutella. Vectors. Words. Vibes. Bad puns (soon).
https://vickiboykis.com/what_are_embeddings/
Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com