Hyeseong Kim @hyeseong.kim Integration engineer / Open source hitchhiker / DX enthusiast
@rescript-lang.org committer
Chris Rybicki @rybickic.bsky.social tinkerer interested in distributed systems, compilers, and sometimes philosophy. he/him.
srrrse @without.boats WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
David Calavera @calavera.dev I enjoy reading lots of books, and building open source tools for 🦀 developers.
I hope you like dogs.
Marie-Laure Momplot @malainda.bsky.social Kafka Streams Specialist at Michelin 🦦 - French - passionate about discussing #Kafka, #EventDrivenArchitecture, #Programming, #Scrum, #Agile, #Dev, #Japan 🗾, and many other topics😉... Love building solutions with my 🧠 but above all, with my ♥️.
Aviv Dozorets @themoah.bsky.social Data engineer.
Anything less than PB scale isn’t big 😬
Shay @shay.elkin.io Old man. Lives in an old house. Yells at cloud service providers.
Marit van Dijk @maritvandijk.bsky.social 💻 Software Developer | ☕🥑 Java Developer Advocate @ JetBrains | 🏆 Java Champion | 🎤 International Keynote Speaker | 👩💻 Pronouns: She/her
https://maritvandijk.com/
Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social Work at JetBrains. Java Champion. Check my Java book: https://mng.bz/671p- J Joe Hellerstein @joehellerstein.bsky.social Computer things @Berkeley and music things elsewhere.
Craig Alfieri @craigalfieri.bsky.social Autonomous Testing Sherpa & Hypervisor Hype-man 📣 | On a journey to make software/systems testing better one fault at a time.... (Comms are my own)
Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev Building a local-first music app overtone.pro with @livestore.dev. Host @localfirst.fm. DX Effect. Founded @prisma.io. schickling.dev
eliza🌻 @elizas.website e-girl (engineering girl) • interested in the kind of software nobody writes anymore • making computers at @oxide.computer • love too cheap to meter • nulla crux, nulla corona
Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social CEO @ feldera.com, the incremental compute engine for AI, ML and data teams.
Formerly a systems researcher in distributed systems, databases, cloud, OS, PL, and networking. Sci-fi and gaming nerd.
lalith.in/research
Jordan Isaacs @snowytrees.dev database internals engineer; building lakebase @ databricks; making transactions go vroom; author of too many nix flakes
@jayaprabhakar.bsky.social @jayaprabhakar.bsky.social 
Christiano Anderson @christiano.dev Data plumber. I talk about Python, Scala, Spark, datalakes, open source and random topics. Coffee lover. Data Privacy enthusiast. INTJ. Posts in 🇬🇧, 🇧🇷 and 🇩🇪
openpgp4fpr:D0A1E76B3CCB312F675A77C33FADE605262CE09E
Kafka Streams @kafkastreams.bsky.social The official Apache Kafka Streams account. Run by the Apache Kafka PMC. Long live the otter.
Peter Kraft @petereliaskraft.net Co-founder @ http://dbos.dev • Stanford PhD • Database Geek • Building https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-py
@davistreybig.bsky.social @davistreybig.bsky.social - D @dorlaor.bsky.social @dorlaor.bsky.social
James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social ML/AI @ Electric Plant Co, prev ML/RecSys at Spotify. A nervous little punk boy.
Andrew Meredith @a4w-m6h.com Anglican dad, programmer, data person. An Andrew of all trades and master of none. Not popular enough to say "view are my own and not those of my employer."
Félix GV @felixgv.ninja Mostly here to talk about data infra. Opinions will eventually be your own.
Edward Ribeiro @eribeiro.bsky.social Software Engineer. Former Amazon and DataStax, among others. Lecturer. Obsessed with Databases, Distributed systems and OSS.
Paul Copplestone - e/postgres @kiwicopple.bsky.social ceo @supabase | YC S20
database.new
Thorsten Ball @thorstenball.com Author of interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com. Working at Sourcegraph. Previously Zed. Programming where the rubber hits the road. Writing Register Spill at: registerspill.thorstenball.com
Grady Booch @booch.com scientist, storyteller, philosopher
computingthehumanexperience.com
Indradhanush Gupta @igupta.in Senior Backend and Infrastructure engineer. I will absolutely automate anything and everything. Building spot.rackspace.com.
Polishing my systems programming with Zig. ⚡️
I blog about tech and human behaviour at igupta.in
recurse.com alumni. He/Him.
OpenJDK @openjdk.org The place to collaborate on an open-source implementation of the Java Platform and related projects · https://openjdk.org
Damian Guy @damianguy.bsky.social Human, Surfer, Psychedelic explorer
The Pragmatic Engineer. @pragmaticengineer.com Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Highly relevant for software engineers and managers, useful for those working in tech. The #1 technology newsletter on Substack. https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/about
Sébastien Viale @sebviale.bsky.social Kafka Streams aficionado at Michelin 🦦 - Passionate about cycling, running, and hiking - Nothing beats cheese! 🧀
Charity Majors @charity.wtf cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB
Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social Cofounder at Freeman & Forrest, author, cartoonist, and Pwnie Award-winning songwriter. Ex-Google. Here to help.
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/
David Jayatillake @jayatillake.bsky.social Writer @ davidsj.substack.com
@kierstengaffney.bsky.social @kierstengaffney.bsky.social 
Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com Writing The Pragmatic Engineer (@pragmaticengineer.com), the #1 technology newsletter on Substack. Author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook (engguidebook.com). Formerly at Uber, Skype, Skyscanner. More at pragmaticengineer.com
Peter Lawrey @peterlawrey.bsky.social Java Champion | Vanilla Java Blog (6M views) | CEO of Chronicle Software with 8 out the top 11 investment banks as clients.
Six kids from 3 to 26
Alice ✨ @welltypedwit.ch There’s no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying ’til you run out of cake
- GLaDOS
https://welltypedwit.ch
Sophie Blee-Goldman @ableegoldman.bsky.social Apache Kafka PMC/committer, Founding Engineer at Responsive, Kafka Streams dev/fan, otter advocate. My debugging rubber duck is a 5 ft giraffe, please refer any questions to him
Dylan Field @zoink.bsky.social CEO at Figma
Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman.bsky.social Co-Founder of LinkedIn. Focused on using AI to find the cure for cancer, faster. Proud American.
Writing, Pod, ETC: Beacons.ai/reidhoffman
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Akshay Shah @akshayshah.org All-purpose starter-upper @ Antithesis
Infra eng, ex-{Uber, MSFT, founder}
https://akshayshah.org
Matt Green @mgreen.bsky.social Data, Streaming, coding, (maybe) AI?
building a real time streaming engine.
https://www.denormalized.io/
Jan Vissers @jvissers.bsky.social Father of two, husband, Lead Principal Application Software Engineer at Oracle. Opinions are mine.
Jeff Dinkins @jeffatsun.bsky.social I manage the Java Core Libraries team at Oracle. I also draw Duke images in my spare time. And play guitar. And collect vintage Zenith remote controls. Yes, I'm an odd duck. All opinions are my own.
Bruno Cadonna @bruno.cadonna.name Committer & PMC member @ Apache Kafka
Software developer @ Responsive
Convinced otter 🦦
Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev Senior Principal Engineer at IBM, Ex-Red Hat, Ex-Reddit, Ex-Twitter, Distributed Systems PhD, interested in all things stream processing, also cycling
Will Baker @willbaker.dev Software Engineer | Works on distributed systems for stream processing and data storage, mostly using Go and Rust.
Per Minborg @pminborg.bsky.social Java Core Library Team @Oracle (all opinions are my own alone).
Josh Wills @spite.vc Forward Deployed Angel Investor
https://github.com/jwills
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.
Craig @craigkerstiens.com Product @crunchydata previously MSFT/Citus/Heroku. Talk a lot about Postgres and startups. Why Postgres? https://www.crunchydata.com/why-postgres
William Morgan @williammorgan.me Chief Email Outputter at Buoyant. Linkerd spokesnerd. Twitter refugee and former engineer
📍Austin, TX
Chris K Wensel @chris.wensel.net Co-Organizer of https://lu.ma/sf-distsys
Developer of https://github.com/ClusterlessHQ, https://cascading.wensel.net, and other data related projects.
Mike Driscoll @medriscoll.com Founder @ RillData.com, building GenBI. Lover of fast, flexible, beautiful data tools. Lapsed computational biologist.
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
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)
Anirudh Oppiliappan @handle.invalid Founder @kapycluster.com, a serverless Kubernetes platform.
Bangalorean in Helsinki.
See: anirudh.fi/about
🌱
Adam Azzam @aaazzam.bsky.social Little bit of Everything @ Prefect in 🗽
Recovering Academic. Rambling midwesterner.
Joe Reis @joereis.bsky.social Data nerd, “recovering data scientist”, author, podcaster, occasional athlete
Zach Morris Wilson @eczachly.bsky.social 
Abhinav Upadhyay @abhi9u.bsky.social NetBSD Dev | Python Internals, AI, compilers, databases, & performance engineering | https://blog.codingconfessions.com/
Xiangpeng Hao @xiangpeng.systems Database/storage
Flight/DataFusion/Arrow/Parquet
PhD student@UW-Madison
https://xiangpeng.systems
Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social Engineering Manager @clickhouse.com | Databases | Kubernetes | http://parallelthoughts.xyz | https://berlinsystems.xyz/ | https://cal.com/manishgill | AI Research @TomTom
Delhi raised, Berlin based.
Pekka Enberg @penberg.org @🏡🇫🇮🇪🇺🧑💻
Abhay Bothra @swe.dev Co-founder/CTO @fennel.ai / Databases #DataBS / Distributed Systems / Infrastructure. @bothra90 on Twitter.
Brandur @brandur.org Engineering @ Stainless. Ex-Heroku, Stripe, and Snowflake. Go, APIs, Ruby, and databases.
Felix Geisendörfer @felixge.de Working at Datadog on Go Profiling, Performance, OpenTelemetry and more.
Before:
- Manufacturing Observability at Apple
- Co-founder at Transloadit
- Node.js Core Dev
Robert Metzger @rmetzger.bsky.social Staff Engineer at Confluent, Committer and PMC Member at Apache Flink.
Co-Founded data Artisans. Member of the Apache Software Foundation.
lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social Looker Founder, makes things with bits.
Trying to make a better SQL with Malloy
Shraddha Agrawal @shraddhaag.dev Senior Software Engineer at Ceph, IBM
You’ll find me talking about computers, databases, distributed systems, fiction books, movies, music, photography, building Lego and puzzles!
🌐 shraddhaag.dev
Sujay Jayakar @sujayakar.bsky.social cofounder @ convex.dev. easily nerd sniped and okay with it.
alex gallego @emaxerrno.bsky.social founder & ceo of redpanda data - ai.redpanda.com
Lari Hotari @lhotari.bsky.social OSS contributor https://github.com/lhotari, Distributed Systems Engineer. Principal Engineer at StreamNative. Apache Pulsar PMC member. Apache Software Foundation member. 🇫🇮🇨🇦🇪🇪🇺🇦
Stephan Ewen @stephanewen.bsky.social Building distributed systems and data infra.
Previously co-creator of Apache Flink (https://flink.apache.org/),
now building Restate (https://restate.dev/) to make distributed apps more easily resilient and scalable.
hailey @hailey.at opinions are my own.
nrc @ncameron.org Rust consultant (currently working with Tailscale). Formerly: Rust core team, Rust IDEs, Rustfmt, async Rust, Distributed databases, Microsoft principal engineer, Mozilla (Rust and Firefox). PhD in PL. Aotearoa NZ
www.ncameron.org
Travis Campbell @hcoyote.bsky.social Three raccoons in a big data trenchcoat.
Sometimes known as “The Don Rickles of Big Data”
Somewhere in the mountains of Colorado
Signal: hcoyote.83
Adam Bellemare @abellemare.bsky.social Technologist. Event-Driven Architectures and Data. Author of O'Reilly's "Building Event-Driven Microservices" and "Building an Event-Driven Data Mesh".
Daniel Joseph @djv0.bsky.social Product @ Confluent
Opinions my own
🇨🇦
Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social He/Him.
Problem solver.
Scientific thinker.
Delivering code to production since 1985.
Ex-@spring.io Team
Speaker (only diverse panels)
Opinions are my own.
#KFSM, #NoCrypto, 🇺🇦
Soumith Chintala @soumithchintala.bsky.social Cofounded and lead PyTorch at Meta. Also dabble in robotics at NYU.
AI is delicious when it is accessible and open-source.
http://soumith.ch
WhiteSponge @whitesponge.bsky.social Lover of all things tech, design and coding! Designing/creating apps/robots with Rust/JS!
Recently released Spux for Leptos!
Building MonitorBolt.com in 2026!
https://www.whitesponge.com - Blog
https://youtube.com/@whitesponge - YouTube
Raphael @fagundescodes.bsky.social Open Source Enthusiast • 🌱 Always learning
Otávio Carvalho @otavioccc.bsky.social Yet another software bricklayer.
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social Entrepreneur, software engineer, non-conformist.
🔥 Creator of shadowtraffic.io
Linas Naginionis @linasn.bsky.social Distributed storage nerd @ Cast AI, ex Chronosphere.
https://github.com/soundvibe
Ivar Grimstad @theguywiththeduketattoo.com Java Champion | Jakarta EE Developer Advocate | The guy with the Duke tattoo
https://jakarta.ee/community/developer-advocate/
Hanno Embregts 🎤🎸 @hanno.codes Java Developer 💻 by day, musician 🎤🎸 by night. A bit of both at developer conferences.
🏆 Java Champion
♠️ Oracle ACE Pro
🎟️ NLJUG Leader
👨🏼💻 Trainer / Technology Advocate at Info Support
🔗 hanno.codes
🇺🇦🏳️🌈🌱 Code for good
Stuart Marks @smarks.bsky.social Java/JDK/OpenJDK developer, Oracle Corporation. The views expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle. Mostly on @stuartmarks@mastodon.social ; formerly @stuartmarks on Twitter.
Thomas Wuerthinger @thomaswue.dev Passionate about compilers & programming languages. GraalVM founder & project lead. VP at Oracle. Expressed opinions are my own. For DM: contact@thomaswue.dev
DJ Patil @djpatil.bsky.social Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist
GP Great Point Ventures
Devoted Health, RelateIQ, LinkedIn
I build things 
Jake Gold @jacob.gold Building AI infra @ https://clor.com in SF Bay Area. Helped launch and scale Vibecode and Bluesky. Prev: Nuro, Docker, Google, founder.
Addicted to history, computers, and open systems.
Unconditional love for all conscious life.
https://jacob.gold