Tobias Müller @tobilg.com Serverless enthusiast. DuckDB afficionado. AWS Community Builder.
Building @sql-workbench.com @ownstats.com @learningduckdb.com
Blog: https://tobilg.com
@ducklabs.com @ducklabs.com 
__Alex Monahan__ @a13x.bsky.social DuckDB hype man, MotherDucker (I work at MotherDuck!), SQL nut, Pythonista, reluctant JS dev
Stefan Prodan @stefanprodan.com OSS maintainer of CNCF projects Flux, Flagger and the GitOps Toolkit
Head of Development @controlplane.io
🫶 #golang #cuelang #kubernetes #gitops
👉 https://github.com/stefanprodan
DuckDB @duckdb.org DuckDB is an analytical in-process SQL database management system. "DuckDB" and the DuckDB logo are registered trademarks of the DuckDB Foundation.
CMU Database Group @db.cs.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon Database Research Group
https://db.cs.cmu.edu/
Peter Kraft @petereliaskraft.net Co-founder @ http://dbos.dev • Stanford PhD • Database Geek • Building https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-py
Wes McKinney @wesmckinney.com Principal Architect @posit.co, GP Composed Ventures, Co-founder Voltron Data. Open source: Apache Arrow, pandas, Ibis. "Python for Data Analysis" book
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
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.
Craig @craigkerstiens.com Product @crunchydata previously MSFT/Citus/Heroku. Talk a lot about Postgres and startups. Why Postgres? https://www.crunchydata.com/why-postgres
Joran Dirk Greef @joran.tigerbeetle.com Creator, Founder and CEO of @tigerbeetle.com — the financial transactions database designed for mission critical safety and performance.
Feldera @feldera.bsky.social Built on DBSP (Best Paper, VLDB ‘23), it computes precisely what changed, no matter how complex your SQL views, so you get answers that are always current and provably correct, at a fraction of the cost.
Zachery Kuykendall @itszachery.bsky.social 🔹Head of Product @ Mynd🔹AI & Cloud Solutions Strategist🔹17x Certified🔹 MBA🔹
Marco Herzog @marcoher.bsky.social Connecting AI research & Applied AI since 2018 | Previously: ML, NLP, RecSys | Now: GenAI, LLMs, RAG | Natural science, tech and climbing is my thing.
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/
Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social Conversations with amazingly smart people who are building the next generation of technology, from hardware to cloud. Hosted by
@cpard.bsky.social @nitayj.bsky.social
Polar Signals @polarsignals.com A cool company. 🧊
🚀 Unlock the full potential of your code with real-time profiling.
Creators of Parca!
polarsignals.com
Loophole Labs @loopholelabs.io Scale Kubernetes to Zero, Wake it up Instantly - https://loopholelabs.io
HYTRADBOI @hytradboi.bsky.social Have you tried rubbing a database on it?
https://www.hytradboi.com/2025
Chris @chris.blue 37% context left
Philip Z @philz.dev 
Vaibhav Rabber @vrong.me 
Dominik Tornow @dominiktornow.bsky.social Founder Resonate HQ | Distributed Async Await | Thinking in Distributed Systems | https://dtornow.substack.com
ParadeDB @paradedb.com One Postgres for your application data, full-text search, vector retrieval, and aggregations.
☁️ Cloud early access: https://paradedb.com/cloud- H @harel.bsky.social @harel.bsky.social
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
jan @handle.invalid Kubernetes platforms @ Accenture, https://github.com/janwillies, Berlin
Garren @garrensmith.bsky.social Founding Engineer @ Tigris Data, CouchDB PMC - databases and distributed systems. Father, mountain biker, climber and musician 
Almog @almog.xyz Favorite Buzzwords: Kafka Streams | SlateDB | Stream Processing | Distributed Databases
co-founder @ https://responsive.dev
Rohan Desai @rohanpd.bsky.social Co-Founder of @responsive.dev. Views are my own.
Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social CEO @paradedb.com • H'20 • 🇫🇷🇨🇦
https://philippemnoel.posthaven.com
Vignesh Chandramohan @vigneshc.bsky.social Stream processing, data infra, Table formats.
https://vigneshc.github.io/
Zach Morris Wilson @eczachly.bsky.social 
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.
[bridged from https://mastodon.jepsen.io/@jepsen on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Murat (Distributolog) @muratdemirbas.bsky.social Distributed systems,Database systems, Lightweight formal methods, TLA+
https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/
Marc Brooker @marcbrooker.bsky.social Serverless, databases, and serverless databases at AWS. Views my own.
Check out my blog: https://brooker.co.za/blog/
David Crawshaw @crawshaw.io ceo exe.dev, tailscale co-founder, programmer
Mike @mfridman.bsky.social technology, landmarks, left joins and Go vibes.
Protocol Buffers for the rest of us @buf.build
Alex DeBrie @alexdebrie.bsky.social 💻 Independent consultant
⭐️ AWS Data Hero
📖 Author of DynamoDBBook.com. Creator of DynamoDBGuide.com
⚡️ Ex-@goserverless, @HudlEngineering 
Timo Reimann @timoreimann.bsky.social Systems Engineer working @ Cloudflare
Twitter: @timoreimann
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
Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me sugarbaby cosplaying as a tech consultant • mean eastern european with unrealistically high expectations and unreasonable quality standards
🏳️🌈he/him🏳️🌈
Eddie Zaneski @eddiezane.bsky.social OSS @ Defense Unicorns | SIG CLI @kubernetes.dev
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.
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
Brandur @brandur.org Engineering @ Stainless. Ex-Heroku, Stripe, and Snowflake. Go, APIs, Ruby, and databases.
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
Alex Miller @alexmillerdb.bsky.social Database Papers as a Service
@ me with your DB paper questions or “what do I read for ___” topic requests
Pekka Enberg @penberg.org @🏡🇫🇮🇪🇺🧑💻
Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social Distributed and Storage Systems. Apache Cassandra Committer and PMC member. Author of Database Internals. Mountain person. http://databass.dev/
Brian Grant @bgrant0607.bsky.social CTO/cofounder of ConfigHub. Original lead architect of Kubernetes and creator of its declarative configuration model.
Phil Estes @estesp.dev AWS, containers, OCI, open source, community- B Brendan Burns @brendandburns.bsky.social CVP and Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft
Azure cloud native open source and Azure resource management platform and client experiences.
Kubernetes co-founder.
Building the future one cloud at a time.
Rita Zhang @ritazh.bsky.social Eng Lead @Microsoft, #Kubernetes SIG Auth chair, Founder @GarageDoorBuddy, EECS @UCBerkeley, open source, running distributed workloads at scale
Lucas Käldström @luxas.dev Kubernetes contributor, CNCF Ambassador
Running the Kubernetes meetups in Finland
Generic control planes and authorization at Upbound
James Munnelly @munnerz.bsky.social Kubernetes @ Apple | cert-manager maintainer | previously @ Jetstack
Stefan Büringer @sbueringer.bsky.social Kubernetes @VMware, he / him, Skeets are my own
@sbueringer on X @sbueringer@hachyderm.io
Maciej Szulik @soltysh.bsky.social Kubernout/OpenShifter by day, Pythonista by night, open source enthusiast and amateur photographer. Tweets are my own. he/him/his.
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
Andy Goldstein @andygoldstein.bsky.social 
Kubernetes @kubernetes.bsky.social https://kubernetes.io/
Ivan Velichko @iximiuz.bsky.social Software Engineer. Educator. Entrepreneur. Bootstrapping labs.iximiuz.com - a learning platform to help you master Linux, Containers, and Kubernetes 🚀
Vince Prignano @vincepri.com Computer things at .
Benjamin Elder @bentheelder.bsky.social @kubernetes.io Steering Committee member / SIG Testing Tech Lead, sigs.k8s.io/kind creator / maintainer. Dog dad.
Free time: Hiking, Photography, Books ...
http://elder.dev/about
Kris Nóva @krisnova.net Dreamer. Engineer. Writer. Aurae. Linux. Security. C. Rust. Go. Queer. OSINT. Mountains. Follow me on Twitch. She/Her. Principal Engineer at GitHub. 
Andrew Martin ⚡☸️ @sublimi.no Hacker // CEO https://controlplane.io 🌐 @controlplane.io | Cloud Native Security | CISO openuk.uk | AI sec https://finos.org/ | Hacking Kubernetes https://oreilly.com/ | Ex https://tag-security.cncf.io/ & https://sans.org/ | Ex-X @sublimino
Kostas Pardalis @cpard.bsky.social Building https://typedef.ai | host @ https://techontherocks.show | Done some cool stuff with trinodb | ex-RudderStack | previously CEO @ Blendo 
shikhar @schmizz.net Making streams serverless @s2.dev
Hannes Mühleisen @hannes.muehleisen.org I like databases and boats. Co-creator of @duckdb.org, Co-Founder and CEO DuckDB Labs.
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 · 🚴
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
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
Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com VP of Data Engineering at Dash0. Previously, founder of Polar Signals (acquired by Dash0).
Xuanwo @xuanwo.io ASF Member.
Apache OpenDAL PMC Chair.
VISION: Data Freedom.
Working on #RBIR.
More: https://bento.me/xuanwo
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
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
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
Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social Works with data, runs with swords.
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)
Jay Kreps @jaykreps.bsky.social 
@kevinjqliu.bsky.social @kevinjqliu.bsky.social 
Andy Grove @andygrove.io Apache Arrow & DataFusion PMC Member. Original creator of Apache DataFusion.