James Cowling @jamescowling.dev @convex.dev co-founder/CTO. Dropbox storage designer. Distributed systems researcher at MIT. Bad motorcycle mechanic. Database shill.
Vishnu Bharathi @vishnubharathi.codes Engineer at Hasura 👷 Doing Dev tools, Backend, and Infra 🛠️
Recurse Center F1' 20 alum 🖥️ Love for reading books, research papers & blogs 📚
"In a gentle way, you can shake the world" - Mahatma Gandhi
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ram @sriramsub.bsky.social Founder and CEO at Nile (https://www.thenile.dev/). Previously: VP of Engineering at Confluent. Believe to win.
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Werner @wernervogels.bsky.social CTO @ Amazon
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
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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
Naren @naren.io Software necromancer. I say things here that I cannot say on my twitter.
Sathyajith Bhat @sathyabh.at AWS Container Hero. SRE, Author Practical Docker with Python & co-author The CDK Book. Gamer(ARPGs, City Builders) & Occasional streamer.
https://sathyasays.com
https://sathyabh.at
IXE => MAA => AUS => BLR => OTP => SYD
Prasanna @prasanna.dev Techie ⌨️, Cricket ❤️ , Father and a
procrastinator.
Engineer @microsoft Ex-@thoughtworks
☁️ AWS, Azure
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Manoj Mahalingam @manoj.dev Principal Engineer @Avalara
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Interested in LLMs at the moment. Leading low code adoption. #Scala #Python #Javascript #Kubernetes #Terraform #AWS #MachineLearning
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v @avi.im breaking databases @tur.so W1 '21 @recursecenter.bsky.social
excited about databases, storage engines and message queues
Michael Gasch @embano1.mgasch.com Product Manager AWS. Golang. Distributed Systems.
Views and opinions are my own.
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social on software infrastructure @theconsensus.dev.
theconsensus.dev
Russ Cox @swtch.com 
Duffie Cooley @mauilion.dev Field CTO Isovalent // Proud CNCF Ambassador // I am committed to seeing others succeed.
@mauilion everywhere else 
Jepsen @jepsen.mastodon.jepsen.io.ap.brid.gy Breaking distributed systems, one fault at a time.
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Michael Hausenblas @mhausenblas.info Principal Software Engineer, Genesys | 塞翁失马
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Marc Brooker @marcbrooker.bsky.social Serverless, databases, and serverless databases at AWS. Views my own.
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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social CTO of Microsoft Azure, author of novels Rogue Code, Zero Day and Trojan Horse, Windows Internals, Sysinternals tools. Opinions are my own.
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Tim Hockin @thock.in I like writing software, even if I don't get to do it much anymore. Kubernetes. Star Wars nerd, Expanse fan, dad, dork. 
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 · 🚴
Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Databases @ Carnegie Mellon.
David Crawshaw @crawshaw.io ceo exe.dev, tailscale co-founder, programmer
Gwen Shapira @gwenshap.bsky.social Founder of SaaS Developer Community and Nile Database. 
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev Knuck if you buck practitioner
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
Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social Professor at FEUP University of Porto and researcher at INESC TEC. Distributed Systems and Data. Co-creator of CRDTs. Founder eurotux.com. Still searching for unknown unknowns. (🦋 July 2023)
Web: https://cbaquero.github.io/web/
Joe Beda @h.olysh.it Out of retirement to be CTO @ Stacklok. Did k8s, GCE, gtalk and IE. Figuring shit out. Protect Trans kids 🏳️⚧️. Seattle. Signal: jbeda.99 he/him
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I’m mainly on Fedi, @cosocial.ca@timbray. On this account I mostly post #blueskyabove photos; for more, if you’re not on Fedi try @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net ⌯Go ⦁ Walking the line between correctness and comprehension ⦁ bill@ardanlabs.com ⦁ kronkai.com ⦁ wife(aleintech.com) ⦁ GoBridge
Brian Grant @bgrant0607.bsky.social CTO/cofounder of ConfigHub. Original lead architect of Kubernetes and creator of its declarative configuration model.
Mike @mfridman.bsky.social technology, landmarks, left joins and Go vibes.
Protocol Buffers for the rest of us @buf.build
James Munnelly @munnerz.bsky.social Kubernetes @ Apple | cert-manager maintainer | previously @ Jetstack
Stefan Schimanski @sttts.social API Machinery @ ex-Upbound, ex-Redhat, Kubernetes, OpenSource, logician, restless, hungry & foolish, þetta reddast, http://github.com/sttts – Opinions&tweets are my own, http://mastodon.social/@sttts
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Massimo Re Ferré @mreferre.bsky.social Chief Psychology Officer @awscloud
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Fabio Rapposelli @fabio.rapposelli.org CTO @Satispay 🦄 | Ex-VMware/Broadcom Distinguished Engineer | 20+ years discovering that great tech comes from understanding both systems and souls | Speaker, mentor, perpetual student
Dan Farrelly - Inngest @danfarrelly.com CTO + Co-founder @inngest.com: The queuing and orchestration platform for modern software teams.
Former CTO @buffer.com, created @maildev.github.io
Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social Principal Applied Scientist in Microsoft CoreAI. Working on AI for coding. Co-organizer of SF Systems Meetup. CS PhD from Berkeley Sky Lab where I worked on https://hydro.run/ .
Reuben Bond @rbn.bsky.social Distributed Systems & databases person. Works at Microsoft on Orleans & Aspire
Mat Ryer @matryer.bsky.social Director Engineering @ Grafana Labs. Safe and actually useful AI. Music. Podcaster, Conference emcee, Author. Games.
Stefan Prodan @stefanprodan.com OSS maintainer of CNCF projects Flux, Flagger and the GitOps Toolkit
Head of Development @controlplane.io
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Carlos Santana @santana.dev AWS EKS Specialist SA | @cncf.io Ambassador | CNCF Kubernetes Book Club organizer, GitOps, Argo SIG-scalability lead, Kubernetes, CNOE, Platform Engineering, Fleet Management, GenAI, AI, NVIDIA Jetson
Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me sugarbaby cosplaying as a tech consultant • mean eastern european with unrealistically high expectations and unreasonable quality standards
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Eddie Zaneski @eddiezane.bsky.social OSS @ Defense Unicorns | SIG CLI @kubernetes.dev
Alex Xu @bytebytego.bsky.social Follow me for system design & book-writing tips. | Author of the bestselling book series: ‘System Design Interview’ | Join 350,000+ Readers: blog.bytebytego.com
Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com AWS Serverless Hero & Principal Engineer @ PostNL
Pires @pires.dev Trouble maker, insolent and a pain in the neck. Into distributed-systems. Mostly-retired DJ. Triathlete-wannabe. 🇵🇹
ahmet alp balkan @ahmet.dev working on compute infra at LinkedIn.
ex-twitter/googlecloud/azure
dist sys enthusiast
github.com/ahmetb
Renee Shah @reneeshah.bsky.social Partner at Redpoint focused on AI, infra, security, and developer tools ⚡️
Otávio Carvalho @otavioccc.bsky.social Yet another software bricklayer.
Peter Evans @peterevans.bsky.social Software engineer @github.com
http://peterevans.dev
Fernando Meyer @fernandomeyer.com LabHacker platform engineer and musician;
I'm drawn to hard problems, abstractions, and music;
I build code, hardware, and systems meanwhile overthinking with pen and paper until they’re simple. ps: I have more notebooks than is socially defensible.
Taichi Nakashima @deeeeet.bsky.social https://deeeet.com/
Till Rohrmann @tillrohrmann.bsky.social Co-founder @restate.dev: Building resilient applications made easy! Apache Flink Committer and PMC member. Previously @ververica.com
Justin Sheehy @justinsheehy.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hachyderm.io/@justinsheehy, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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Uwe Friedrichsen @ufried.bsky.social Uwe Friedrichsen. Longtime traveler in the world of IT. Dot Connector. Keeper of timeless wisdom. Translator between floors. System design. Resilience. Sustainability. Tries to make (not only) IT a (bit) better place.
Brandur @brandur.org Engineering @ Stainless. Ex-Heroku, Stripe, and Snowflake. Go, APIs, Ruby, and databases.
Jason Hall @imjasonh.com World's Okayest Dad, pizza enthusiast, single-hyphenate, container nerd at Chainguard
Udi Dahan @udidahan.com Posts about Software Development, Design, and Architecture.
Founder and CEO of NServiceBus. He/Him.
https://udidahan.com/
https://twitter.com/UdiDahan
https://hachyderm.io/@udidahan
Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social Podcaster, Youtuber @TheGeekNarrator
(https://youtube.com/@thegeeknarrator?si=yN0zWNDAScJKv_QZ) Databases, Stream processing, Distributed systems Software Engineer @Confluent
Alex Miller @alexmillerdb.bsky.social Database Papers as a Service
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
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Dominik Tornow @dominiktornow.bsky.social Founder Resonate HQ | Distributed Async Await | Thinking in Distributed Systems | https://dtornow.substack.com
Pekka Enberg @penberg.org @🏡🇫🇮🇪🇺🧑💻
Hannes Mühleisen @hannes.muehleisen.org I like databases and boats. Co-creator of @duckdb.org, Co-Founder and CEO DuckDB Labs.
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Apurva Mehta @apurvamehta.com Co-Founder and CEO of @responsive.dev. I write about stream processing and company building. Views are my own.
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Stephen Augustus (he/him) @auggie.dev Black.
#opensource governance: @kubernetes.io, @openssf.org, TODO Group
Office of the CTO, Bloomberg — Opinions are my own
Bio and links: https://whois.auggie.dev/
#Blacksky
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Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social Distributed and Storage Systems. Apache Cassandra Committer and PMC member. Author of Database Internals. Mountain person. http://databass.dev/
Fernando @francofernando.com Software Engineer for 15+ years • Algorithms, Distributed Systems, System Design, Computer Vision • Dad & husband • I write http://polymathicengineer.com
Mahdi Yusuf @mahdiyusuf.com Sr. Engineering Manager @ Apple. Distributed Systems and Data. Previously @ 1Password.
Homelabs, databases, and basketball.
✍🏾 @architecturenotes.co
Yuan Tang @terrytangyuan.xyz Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat AI | Open Source Leader at KServe, Argo, Kubeflow, Kubernetes, CNCF | Maintainer of XGBoost, TensorFlow | Keynote Speaker | Author | Technical Advisor
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