Ian @iiiiiian.bsky.social KS/MO Border dweller
Software Guy
Prairie Village, KS City Councilor
Personal account, views not my employer, orgs, etc.
Zack Brown @zackrbrown.com Kansas City, city stuff, biking, transit
Gant Laborde @gantlaborde.com Mentor, Writer, Mental, Attsion to detail, and CIO and founder in Infinite Red
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Simon Martinelli @martinelli.ch Java Champion, Vaadin Champion, Oracle ACE Pro, Published Author, International Speaker, Programming Architect, and Lecturer for AI-driven Software Engineering, Software Architecture, Java, Persistence, and DevOps.
https://martinelli.ch
Todd Ginsberg @todd.ginsberg.com #Java and #Kotlin developer. @trijug.dev organizer. Conference speaker. Gatherers4j maintainer, Philatelist. Big fan of doughnuts and F1. Raleigh, NC He/Him 🇺🇸🇨🇦
Nick Wright @getnickwright.bsky.social First Things First M-F from 3:00-5:00pm ET on FS1... What’s Wright with Nick Wright on YouTube… Fledgling poker commentator & player
https://www.youtube.com/c/WhatsWrightShow
Brett Kollmann @brettkollmann.bsky.social Creator of All Thirty Two
Co-Host of the Bootleg Football Podcast.
https://www.youtube.com/c/brettkollmann
Mayor Q @mayorq.bsky.social Personal account of Quinton Lucas, Mayor of Kansas City. “Aldi-Brand Obama.”
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
Ian Rapoport @rapsheet.bsky.social National Insider for ESPN and NFL Network and www.nfl.com. Made seven cameos in the movie Draft Day.
Inquiries: shahob@william-raymond.com
https://link.me/rapsheet
Nate Taylor @bynatetaylor.bsky.social Chiefs writer with ESPN. Sam Salary called me the Black Peter Parker. Husband to lovely Holly Taylor. Father to Hayden & Noah. UCM alumni. Home is always KC. Jesus is Lord.
Heinz Kabutz 🏝 🇬🇷 🇿🇦 ☕️ @heinzkabutz.com Author of mildly entertaining and somewhat useful #Java Specialists’ Newsletter. Email is heinz at javaspecialists dot eu.
JJ Asghar @jjasghar.bsky.social 🧔 Father
🤓 Husband
🦅 Eagle Scout
🥃 sometimes whisky
📀 computer nerd
👨💻 Job: OSPO for @IBM
Jeremy, the patronizing Saint of DevOps 🇺🇦 @jerdog.dev #DevRel, #DevEx, #Community, #Opensource things. Ex CircleCI, Auth0, etc. #DevOpsDays KC Organizer. @jerdog@hachyderm.io on 🐘.
FDT. Fuck ICE.
#BlackLivesMatter
#AbortionIsHealthcare
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
Website: jmeiss.me
Kansas City Developer Conference @kcdc.bsky.social The Kansas City Developer Conference (KCDC) is Kansas City's premier educational conference for software development. Catch it August 13-15, 2025! https://kcdc.info #kcdc2025
Heather Downing @heatherdown.ing Software dev & speaker. Developer Advocate @YugabyteDB & Microsoft MVP. #dotNET/APIs/identity/data/AI. Technical, curious and traveling often from KC, Missouri. KCDC crew.
Tommy Ludwig @tommyludwig.bsky.social Maintainer of @micrometer.io
X/Twitter: @TommyLudwig
John Walicki @walicki.bsky.social Open Source Developer, Former #IBMer, Über Geek, Family Guy. #Linux #AI #IoT #DevRel #EdgeComputing #NodeRED
Phil Webb 🍃 @philwebb.dev Working in OSS on Spring Boot.
https://linktr.ee/phillipwebb
Vincent Mayers @mayers.io DevRel and Tech Community Leader, Java Champion, MicroProfile.io steering committee, Speaker, Organizer of Devnexus and Atlanta Java Users Group
Marit van Dijk @maritvandijk.bsky.social 💻 Software Developer | ☕🥑 Java Developer Advocate @ JetBrains | 🏆 Java Champion | 🎤 International Keynote Speaker | 👩💻 Pronouns: She/her
https://maritvandijk.com/
Ted M. Young (he/him) aka @JitterTed @ted.dev #Java coach/consultant/streamer. Maker of "JitterTed's TDD Game" https://tdd.cards
Live streaming my coding mistakes at https://JitterTed.Stream and https://JitterTed.TV
#Refactoring #JUnit #TDD #TestableArchitecture #DomainDrivenDesign #Ensembling #LGM
Sébastien Deleuze @seb.deleuze.fr Spring AI/Framework @ Broadcom, #WebAssembly since 2016, ex @mixitconf.org staff. https://seb.deleuze.fr
Dalibor Topić @robilad.bsky.social Although I work at Oracle Global Services Germany: The views expressed on this [blog; Web site] are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle.
Mastodon: @Robilad@det.social
Mastodon bridge account: @Robilad.det.social.ap.brid.gy
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.
José Paumard @josepaumard.bsky.social #Java #DevRel @Oracle, bartender #JEPCafe and https://dev.java, Java Champion Alumnus, JavaOne Rockstar. I post about #Java, sometimes cooking, Opinions are my own. Posts are in EN and FR.
Michael Simons @rotnroll666.bsky.social 👨👩👦👦👨🏻💻🚴🏻 – Father, Husband, Developer, Athlete. Author of Spring Boot Buch, and DuckDB in Action with Manning. Java champion working at Neo4j on various integrations within the JVM ecosystem.
More: https://michael-simons.eu
Donald Raab @thedonraab.bsky.social Java Champion. Writer of blogs. Creator of the OSS Java library Eclipse Collections. Author of Eclipse Collections Categorically (https://a.co/d/6KmhrNK) . Opinions are my own.
Blog: https://donraab.medium.com/
Kevin Bourrillion @kevinb9n.bsky.social Java Platform Group @Oracle (all opinions are my own alone).
See random stuff about me at http://kevinb9n.github.io
Per Minborg @pminborg.bsky.social Java Core Library Team @Oracle (all opinions are my own alone).
Erik Österlund @eosterlund.bsky.social OpenJDK HotSpot JVM developer at Oracle. Drinks coffee and pets cats. Opinions expressed are, unsurprisingly, my own.
Ana-Maria Mihalceanu @ammbra1508.bsky.social
Java Champion Alumni | Architect| Sr. Developer Advocate @Oracle 🇳🇱 | Speaker | Co-founder@BucharestSCC. Opinions are my own. 
Sharat (Shar) Chander - 🟦🌊 @sharatchander.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇳🇺🇦 #DemocracyMatters | #Java #DevRel at #Oracle | Previously at Sun Microsystems, Verizon, & Bell Atlantic | University of Maryland (Undergrad) and Loyola University, Baltimore (MBA) | 70s rock and R&B, 80s alternative and Rap lover | Views mine
Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com Spring Developer Advocate
Java Champion
Kotlin Google Dev Expert
https://YouTube.com/@coffeesoftware
https://github.com/joshlong
jbáruch 🎩 @jbaru.ch DevRel Team tessl.io
Java Champion, Ex-CNCF Ambassador.
Co-author of #LiquidSoftware and #DevOps Tools for #Java Developers.
Rustam Mehmandarov @rustam.no Passionate computer scientist 📍🇳🇴
Java Champion ☕ | Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Cloud ⛅ | Docker Captain 🐳 | Public speaker 🎙️ | Mentor & Community leader 🌟 | All things Java, Cloud, AI/ML, data, & open source | Ex-leader of JavaZone & javaBin.
Pratik Patel @prpatel.dev master builder of nachos
software . technology . not a bot
Alina Yurenko @alina-yurenko.bsky.social Ukrainian. Love tech, compilers, and open source. Developer Advocate for GraalVM at Oracle. Ambassador of snacks and not running.
Markus Eisele @myfear.com Developer, turned to consulting, developer relations, sales, and landed in marketing.
Writing books for #Oreilly.
Into Java, Kubernetes and such.
Legal called to tell you that I'm not officially speaking for IBM.
Charles Oliver Nutter @headius.bsky.social JRuby co-lead, Java champion, Ruby hero, JavaOne Rockstar, international traveler and speaker. Book me for your next event! I depend on your donations and sponsorships! https://github.com/sponsors/headius
Tom Cools @tomcools.be DevRel @Timefold | Conference (Keynote) Speaker 🗣️ | #Java Champion | @BeJUG Organizer | Kind of a weird guy 😅
Heather Stephens @monoquito89.bsky.social Growing and learning is life, Montana ❤, Water baby, HDPE enthusiast, Cats over Griz, Coffee first or die, Learning acoustic guitar (any advice?), investing energy into the newest generations of innovators and leaders. Opinions my own.
Mark Reinhold @mreinhold.org Chief Architect, Java Platform Group, Oracle · Views are my own · https://mreinhold.org
Richard Fichtner 💻☕ @richard.fichtner.dev CEO of @xdev.software, Loves Java ❤️☕, Java Champion, Founder JUG Oberpfalz, Co-organizer @jcon.one, IBM Champion, Oracle Ace, Vaadin Champion, Dongolorian, Father and Husband
evanchooly @evanchooly.bsky.social Java Champion. Kotlin fanatic. Bit twiddler. New Yorker. Pronounces it jif. SSE at @Datadog. @evanchooly@mastodon.social
David Delabassée @delabassee.bsky.social Senior Director of Java Developer Relations - Oracle
Views are my own!
Bruno Borges @brunoborges.bsky.social Empowering developer communities.
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 · 🚴
Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social Computer scientist & MBA, pilot, inglés y español. Java Champion, Google Dev Expert in Kotlin, Rockstar presenter, author of Spring Boot: Up & Running. Ex Oracle, Pivotal, VMware, Microsoft, Moderne
Angie Jones @angiejones.tech Tech's Favorite Auntie
VP Eng, AI Tools & Enablement @ Block
#techgirl1908
Daniel Hinojosa @dhinojosa.bsky.social Developer of sorts: Typically Java, Scala, and Haskell once in a while.
Nicolai Parlog @nipafx.dev Java enthusiast with a passion for learning and sharing. Developer Advocate at Oracle but views are my own.
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