Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com Technical Fellow, @honeycomb.io
American by birth, Chinese by heritage, Australian by choice
living on occupied and unceded Gadigal and Musqueam/Squamish/Tsleil-Waututh land
she/it
Charity Majors @charity.wtf cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social Cofounder & CTO InfluxData, makers of InfluxDB, the open source time series database. Founder of NYC Machine Learning Meetup. Former Ruby on Rails developer and enthusiast (still a fan).
Thor @thorfour.dev Building cool things @ Polar Signals
OpenTelemetry @opentelemetry.io The official Bluesky account for the OpenTelemetry project! Follow for updates, releases, and more information.
Alex Boten @boten.ca Writes open source software and about technology sometimes. Problems solver & author. He/him https://dot.cards/codeboten
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
Nicolai von Neudeck 🇺🇦 @vonneudeck.com General Purpose Nerd
Consulting, SRE, Resilience Engineering, Cultural Anthropology, Housing, Populism, Antisemitism
How things fail and how anything ever worked at all
📍Berlin/Zuid-Limburg/Penn-ar-Bed/Aude
Signal: nicolai.01
Hillel @hillelwayne.com Developer educator at @antithesis.com. Formal methods, software history, chocolatiering. DMs open. *Logic for Programmers* now out! https://logicforprogrammers.com
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/
Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com Heir to the Heinz Ketchup fortune.
https://somewhattolerable.com
Gabriel Yoran @yoran.com Unternehmer, Autor
www.yoran.com 🏳️🌈
Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social Amy Tobey💙parent🦁😾partner🥰obligate polymath🎶musician👩💻 software engineer🔎leader🧙♀️chaotic good🌈buckaroo🏳️⚧️backyard yogi🧘♀️魔法 少女🤦🏻♀
Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com Student of complex systems failures, resilience engineering, cognitive systems engineering. Will talk your ear off about @resilienceinsoftware.org
John Allspaw @allspaw.bsky.social Cofounder, @AdaptiveCLabs, “the NTSB of Tech” bringing Resilience Engineering to industry. he/him. Won’t speak on all-male panels, and #blacklivesmatter.
Tim Heckman @t.heckman.io Site Reliability Eng. Resiliency, Reliability, Go, video game enthusiast, bedroom DJ. 
@jpaulreed @jpaulreed.com Incident response & management+human factors in software development & operations.
“How many incidents does it take to get to the center of a sociotechnical system?"
(Yes, that @jpaulreed on The Old Bird Site/Mastodon)
Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social willgallego.com
recursive @recursive.lowerarchy.com Still learning to make the gods shit their pants, but at least I make programs coredump
Trans dyke
Also @recursive@hachyderm.io
Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com Angry old woman. Aspiring RIPTA board member, fascinator wearing cyclist, storyteller/poet; distributed systems dev. @marie.tech’s wife. PVD via OAK,BOS&PIT. she/her
Alex Elman @subterfudge.bsky.social 
Fred Hebert @ferd.ca Principal SRE @ honeycomb.io, Tech Book Author, Resilience in Software Foundation board member, Erlang Ecosystem Foundation co-founder, Resilience Engineering fan. SRE-not-sorry.
blog: https://ferd.ca
notes: https://ferd.ca/notes/
Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social Symmathecist, in the medium of code.
Software, systems thinking, observability, process philosophy, enactivism. She/her
ryan kitchens @this-hits-home.kitchen 100% human. resilience engineering. ex-nflx, blizzard 💙
Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com Principal @ http://complexsystems.group. I keep people safe on the internet (trying). Looking at the world with an “anarchist squint” 🏳️🌈 @ kevinriggle@ioc.exchange
Sarah Butt @sarahbutt.bsky.social Systems thinker. Student of complexity. “Like a moth to the incident flame”. Normally accompanied by 🦮 (she/her)
Steven Shorrock @stevenshorrock.bsky.social Psychologist & transdisciplinary humanistic, systems & design practitioner | Work, organisations, complexity, risk, justice | Autism, long covid, ME/CFS |
FBPsS CPsychol CErgHF PhD
🐝🇫🇷🏴 humanisticsystems.com
morgan (grumpy trash panda) @monym.me Cronym from the bird site.
I used to do SRE stuff. I still do, but I used to, too.
prev: Netflix, Blizzard
🏳️⚧️ | she/her
Casey Rosenthal @clr.bsky.social Wrote the book on Chaos Engineering http://amzn.to/3bjsRJ9. Interim CEO of HiBeam. Formerly BOD at Trifork, CEO at Prowler, Verica, management at Netflix, Basho, Port49.
Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social I don't even fucking know anymore. I guess I do tech when I'm employed, I'm Jewish and my body hates me.
Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social
Humanist, Systems Thinker, Safety Nerd, VP of Engineering at Monoline, Devopsdays MSP Organizer, Chaos Engineering Book Contributor, he/him
Steve McGhee @stevemcghee.dev Former athlete, reliability wonk.
Laura Maguire @lauramaguire.bsky.social Usually up high 🏔️🪂🧗🏽♀️ Cognitive Systems Engineering Research and systems design.
I study cognition, complexity, and human performance in high risk, high consequence and high value work systems. 🧠
#resilience #humanfactors #cognitivesystemseng
Thai Wood @thaiwood.io 
Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social I play with books, cats, food, yarn, and dirt, not all at the same time. Software engineer. Society of People Interested in Boring Things. She/her, cis.
Ada Lündhé @adalundhe.dev Author of Hedra performance testing framework. Software unengineer. Walking SEV0. 🏳️⚧️ Trans (they/them) and general music production nerd. Neurodivergent.
Ron Gantt @rongantt.bsky.social Interested in safety, resilience engineering, cognitive systems engineering. Co-host @ punkrocksafety.com. Working to create the conditions for human thriving at work. 
Michael Gasch @embano1.mgasch.com Product Manager AWS. Golang. Distributed Systems.
Views and opinions are my own.
Russ Cox @swtch.com 
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/ ]
Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com Spring Developer Advocate
Java Champion
Kotlin Google Dev Expert
https://YouTube.com/@coffeesoftware
https://github.com/joshlong
Heidi Howard @heidihoward.bsky.social 
Murat (Distributolog) @muratdemirbas.bsky.social Distributed systems,Database systems, Lightweight formal methods, TLA+
https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/
Michael Hausenblas @mhausenblas.info Principal Software Engineer, Genesys | 塞翁失马
https://o11y.news
Marc Brooker @marcbrooker.bsky.social Serverless, databases, and serverless databases at AWS. Views my own.
Check out my blog: https://brooker.co.za/blog/
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.
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 Database Research @ ClickHouse
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
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
Chris @chris.blue 37% context left
Tim Bray @tbray.org Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.
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
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
Massimo Re Ferré @mreferre.bsky.social Chief Psychology Officer @awscloud
More about me @ https://it20.info/about/
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
🫶 #golang #cuelang #kubernetes #gitops
👉 https://github.com/stefanprodan
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
🏳️🌈he/him🏳️🌈
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 inference infra @ baseten.co
ex-linkedin/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
Nate Finch @natefinch.bsky.social Gopher at GitHub working on Copilot. Author of Mage. Dungeon Master and Magic player. Used to be NateTheFinch on the Bird Site that shall not be named.
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.
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
@ me with your DB paper questions or “what do I read for ___” topic requests
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
Dominik Tornow @dominiktornow.bsky.social Founder Resonate HQ | Distributed Async Await | Thinking in Distributed Systems | https://dtornow.substack.com
Hannes Mühleisen @hannes.muehleisen.org I like databases and boats. Co-creator of @duckdb.org, Co-Founder and CEO DuckDB Labs.
@madhavjivrajani.bsky.social @madhavjivrajani.bsky.social Systems @ UIUC | Helping Maintain The Kubernetes Project | GopherCon Co-Chair | ♥️ Theory + Systems | Views are my own.
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
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
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
Go @golang.org Go will make you love programming again. We promise.
https://go.dev/
MoTaverse @ministryoftesting.com The future is changing right before our eyes. The MoTaverse is here to guide you and your team along the way.
We’re expanding the MoTaverse to help you navigate the challenges of building better software.
Visit us: ministryoftesting.com