Andy Grove @andygrove.io Apache Arrow & DataFusion PMC Member. Original creator of Apache DataFusion.
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.
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
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.
Paul Butler @paulbutler.org I build jamsocket.com and write digest.browsertech.com
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
Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social Database Research @ ClickHouse
Associate Prof. of Databases @ Carnegie Mellon.
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
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).
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.
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
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.
Jeremiah Lowin @jlowin.dev CEO @prefect.io. Building FastMCP. Mostly harmless.
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 🇩🇰->🇨🇦
Dominik Tornow @dominiktornow.bsky.social Founder Resonate HQ | Distributed Async Await | Thinking in Distributed Systems | https://dtornow.substack.com
Jay Kreps @jaykreps.bsky.social 
Matthias J. Sax 🦦 @mjsax.bsky.social American Homeowner 🇺🇸 | Battle Born | Go Bills 🦬 | Software Engineer at Confluent | GM of KafkaStreams 🦦 | ASF Member, Committer and PMC member (Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Storm) — Reno. Home Means Nevada.
@kevinjqliu.bsky.social @kevinjqliu.bsky.social 
Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social Distributed and Storage Systems. Apache Cassandra Committer and PMC member. Author of Database Internals. Mountain person. http://databass.dev/
Reuben Bond @rbn.bsky.social Distributed Systems & databases person. Works at Microsoft on Orleans & Aspire
Garren @garrensmith.bsky.social Founding Engineer @ Tigris Data, CouchDB PMC - databases and distributed systems. Father, mountain biker, climber and musician 
Hans-Peter Grahsl @hpgrahsl.bsky.social Builder Relations & Enablement @ Kestra.io, Ex-Decodable, Ex-Red Hat, formerly Engineer/Trainer/Consultant - proud husband, 🦁 hearted dad of 2 and ☕️ aficionado.
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.
Richard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social Anthropologist - Bayesian modeling - science reform - cat and cooking content too - Director @ MPI for evolutionary anthropology https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/richard-mcelreath/
Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things.
NYC
Dr. Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareemcarr.bsky.social Statistician. PhD @Harvard • Masters degree in pure math • Follow me for fun, nerdy content.
Sign up to my newsletter: kareemcarr.substack.com
Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com Visualisation and graphics @posit.co
Developing ggsql, ggplot2, hephaestus, patchwork, gganimate
Generative Art: https://thomaslinpedersen.art
Blog: https://data-imaginist.com
he/him
Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com Designer, journalist, and professor.
Author of 'The Art of Insight' (2023) 'How Charts Lie' (2019), 'The Truthful Art' (2016), and 'The Functional Art' (2012). NEW PROJECT: https://openvisualizationacademy.org/ 
Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io […]
[bridged from https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Julia Silge @juliasilge.com Building data science tools @posit.co, #rstats, parenthood ✨📊✨
Solomon Kurz @solomonkurz.bsky.social Clinical psychology researcher | applied statistics geek | so called #RStats influencer
Hamel Husain @hamel.bsky.social evals evals evals. https://evals.info
Paige Bailey (webpaige.dev) @dynamicwebpaige.bsky.social ✨ Keep it simple, make it scale. AI should be about empowering users and building understanding. 👩💻 AI Developer Experience @ Google DeepMind, ex-Github, ex-Google
Hilary Parker @hspter.bsky.social Data Science advising / consulting. Formerly startup CTO, Data Science Biden 2020, Stitch Fix, Etsy. PhD JHU Biostar. Co-host Not So Standard Deviations podcast. 🥳😴🧘🐈⬛
David Pfau @davidpfau.com So far I have not found the science, but the numbers keep on circling me.
Views my own, unfortunately.
Eugene Yan @eugeneyan.com RecSys, AI, Engineering; Principal Applied Scientist @ Amazon. Led ML @ Alibaba, Lazada, Healthtech Series A. Writing @ eugeneyan.com, aiteratelabs.com.
Jenny Bryan @jennybryan.bsky.social Software engineer @posit.co, humane #rstats
Nathan Yau @flowingdata.com Playing with data, visualizing it for humans at flowingdata.com
Alison Presmanes Hill @apreshill.com apreshill.com
Product + Open Source + 1/3 of palmerpenguins team 🐧
Leading product @Pixeltable
Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social Population Geographer | Spatial Demographer.
Partial to words like orthogonal + heterodox.
Also very partial to shoes.
rachelfranklin.org + rachelfranklin.substack.com
Victoriano Izquierdo @victoriano.bsky.social Graphext co-founder.
Data Stuff 📊 & Product 📦
graphext.com - @graphext.bsky.social
victoriano.me
twitter.com/victorianoi
Dr. Dominic Royé @drxeo.eu -Mapping the world- Dr. in Physical Geography | environmental health - bioclimatology - geography. RC Researcher from 🇩🇪 at @mbgcsic.bsky.social @csic.es in 🇪🇸 #rstats #dataviz
Secretary of the @aeclim.org
📍Galicia
ℹ️ https://dominicroye.github.io
estebanmoro @estebanmoro.bsky.social Researcher, scientist. Professor at the Network Science Institute @Northeastern and director of the Social Urban Networks Lab. Formerly @uc3m & @mit
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Ines Montani 〰️ @inesmontani.bsky.social 💥 Founder & CEO @explosion.ai
👩💻 Developing spacy.io + prodi.gy + beta.ellf.ai
🐍 Python Software Foundation Fellow
⚡ Hacking @feministai.party
🧠 AI, Machine Learning & NLP
💼 linkedin.com/in/inesmontani
🐘 sigmoid.social/@ines
💥 explosion.ai
🌎 ines.io
fofr @fofr.ai AI at Google DeepMind
https://fofr.ai
Martin Fleischmann @martinfleischmann.net Researcher. Cities, urban morphology, human geography & spatial data science. Open source software developer. #python #cities #open_science
https://martinfleischmann.net
Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social Prof Geographic Information Science at the University of Liverpool; Author of Urban Analytics (https://amzn.to/2l5txth) https://mapstodon.space/@alexsingleton
Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social Founder @datafying
Turning data into actions, not dashboards
10+ years in customer & product analytics
Industry mentor for 20+
Building with AI
📥 DM for collab
Noam Ross @noamross.net Computational disease ecologist. Executive Director of @ropensci.org. Co-director and founder @grantwitness.org. Brooklynite. One Health, open science, democracy, #RStats, cities, civics, bikes, fun, love, progress + justice. he/him
Uri Shalit @urish.bsky.social Machine learning researcher, working on causal inference and healthcare applications
Gaia Marcus @gaiamarcus.bsky.social - Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society
- Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG
- Charity roles inc. Samaritans Trustee; staff @ The RSA, Centrepoint, ParkinsonsUK
andnewman.bsky.social @andnewman.bsky.social Principal Data Specialist at the ODI. Formerly at DefraGovUK. Treasurer at 20th Sheffield Scouts. Geography geek. Husband & dad. Slightly epileptic.
Ben Zhao @ravenben.bsky.social Glaze, Nightshade, & projects to protect human creatives at University of Chicago. Professor @UChicagoCS, MIT TR-35 innovator, ACM Fellow, TIME 100/AI, TED/AI. Most of the time I post as @TheGlazeProject.bsky.social
Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI.
Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets.
www.jenitennison.com
Rob Hyndman @robjhyndman.com Professor of Statistics, Monash University, Australia. FAA, FASSA. Interested in #forecasting, #rstats, #statistics. he/him http://robjhyndman.com
Mine Doğucu @minedogucu.com teaching stats & data science by day • reading and writing stories by night • she/they/o/او • views my own • minedogucu.com • hellodata.science • datapedagogy.com • bayesrulesbook.com • ailurophile • bibliophile • cinephile
Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social I help @posit.co deliver the best R and Python data science solutions to the public sector in the US and elsewhere. Fan of cats coffee whiskey tea photography philosophy Atlanta - personal account. https://18chains.com/
Hannes Mühleisen @hannes.muehleisen.org I like databases and boats. Co-creator of @duckdb.org, Co-Founder and CEO DuckDB Labs.
Robert Kosara @eagereyes.org Interested in all things visual and data, like data visualization. ISOTYPE collector, synth dabbler, runner.
Abel Vázquez Montoro @abelvm.bsky.social Geospatial problems solver.
All my stuff is posted using farm-to-table WiFi, free-range 5G or locally-sourced Ethernet.
Specialization is for insects.
nimbi.es
Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com Computational geographer. Associate Professor at AMU, Poznan, Poland. Co-author of http://r.geocompx.org, http://py.geocompx.org, and http://tmap.geocompx.org books. #rstats #rspatial #geocompx
https://jakubnowosad.com/
Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers and family. ML/NLP professor.
nsaphra.net
Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social A business analyst at heart who enjoys delving into AI, ML, data engineering, data science, data analytics, and modeling. My views are my own.
You can also find me at threads: @sung.kim.mw
Ben Schmidt @bschmidt.bsky.social CTO, Nomic. former history professor/digital humanist.
https://benschmidt.org
Christopher Manning @chrmanning.bsky.social Stanford Linguistics and Computer Science. Director, Stanford AI Lab. Founder of @stanfordnlp.bsky.social . #NLP https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/
Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social LLM for the commons.
Jess Butler @jessbutler.bsky.social Lead Data Scientist, NHS Grampian + Senior Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen
Trying to do useful things with big, messy, high-security data. Huge nerd for open science and public health
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/iahs/people/profiles/jessicabutler
Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net I like tokens! Leading the Olmo data team at @ai2.bsky.social with @kylelo.bsky.social // all opinions sampled from my own stochastic parrot
more at https://soldaini.net
Cody Blakeney ✈️ NeurIPS 2024 @codestar.bsky.social #Efficient AI
Research @MosaicML
Formerly Visiting Researcher @ Facebook Ph.D
#TXSTFOOTBALL fan
http://linktr.ee/code_star
Santiago Viquez @santiviquez.com ML @ NannyML. Writing “The Little Book of ML Metrics” https://www.nannyml.com/metrics?via=santiago
Personal website: https://www.santiviquez.com
Minsuk Chang @minsuk.bsky.social Research Scientist @ Google Deepmind. Opinions are my own.
minsukchang.com
Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social Research scientist interested in multiagent reinforcement learning, game theory, games, and search/planning.
Lover of Linux 🐧, coffee ☕, and retro gaming. Big fan of open-source. #gohabsgo 🇨🇦
For more info: https://linktr.ee/sharky6000
Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
Patrick Assalé @patrickassale.bsky.social Ai Explorer
Thomas Wiecki @twiecki.bsky.social That PyMC guy