Stephen Foskett @stephen.fosketts.net Former sysadmin and storage consultant, present cat herder for Tech Field Day and Gestalt IT, future old man shouting “on-premises” at clouds
@SFoskett@TechFieldDay.net
rob pike @robpike.io Long career as a dilettante at Bell Labs Research and Google, mostly building weird stuff no one uses, but occasionally getting it right, such as with UTF-8 and Go.
TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social Comms exec. Pro-am photographer. Ex-Calvin Klein underwear model. Hey, two out of three ain’t bad.
(He/Him)
ethereal pastry @monkchips.com analyst, developer-friendly
black cats, small plates, natural wine
london, east
he, him
Liz Rice 💛💙🐝 @lizrice.com Open Source | Isovalent @ Cisco | eBPF | Cilium | author of O’Reilly books on Container Security and Learning eBPF | AWS Container Hero | music @insidernine.bsky.social
Marylia Gutierrez, MSc. @marylia.dev Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs | Observability | OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Member | 🇧🇷🇨🇦
https://www.marylia.dev/
Adam Leventhal @ahl.bsky.social Podcast editor (as long as quality and urgency aren’t important)
🌎👩🚀🔫🧑🚀
Charity Majors @charity.wtf cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
Matthias Lübken @luebken.bsky.social Product & Engineering - http://linkedin.com/in/luebken/
Adam Zimman @azimman.bsky.social Alt text is a gift.
Progressive Delivery book(https://a.co/d/6B2ifal)
Work things at exe.dev
Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me sunshine and rainbows and f-bombs 🌈
she/her
@redmonk
shaver, as is @shaver.systems when the going gets tough, the tough give cryptic error messages. dad. optimist. goon. friend. VPE Tailscale.
Coté @cote.io https://newsletter.cote.io
Texas Forever!
Stu Miniman @stu.bsky.social Work on hybrid ☁️ at Red Hat
Found on a 🚴🏻 or geeking out on Star Wars
Swarna Podila (she/her) @skpodila.bsky.social Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind.
Interests: Developer, Open Source, and Technology Marketing
@spectrocloud.bsky.social
corey gilmore @coreygilmore.com Doing stuff at LinkedIn. 10 year Monktoberfest alum. Spent time at US Senate, BGR, PMC.
coreygilmore on twitter / @cfg@mastodon.social
JauntyWunderKind @jauntywunderkind.bsky.social Iteration & expansion of our mediaforms.
Embodying ourselves amid the digital.
Singing life to the new bodies electric.
To properly become connected together we must devise better forms to commune with the machine & connect w ourselves.
#BetOnTheWeb.
Fintan Ryan @fintanr.bsky.social Market Insights at GitHub l recovering analyst (ex RedMonk, Gartner) | 331 ppm | Irish in Edinburgh | Rugby (Munster, Edinburgh by season ticket)
Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social Explaininator, Sticker Thoughtleader, Marketing nerd. Not straight, she/her. Parent of adults, catbox scooper, wife of @silmaria.bsky.social, Kermit-coded.
Find me at heidiwaterhouse.com
#quilting
#sewing
#knitting
#therbligs
Michael Hunger @mesirii.de Developer Advocacy & Labs at Neo4j.
Happy dad of 3 girls ADHD GraphAddict JavaChampion
Code http://github.com/jexp
Words http://medium.com/@mesirii
Network http://de.linkedin.com/in/jexpde
Laurence @piewords.bsky.social Information Pro trying to go sane in a crazy world. All my skeets are MY thoughts, so blame me; everyone else does. War Eagle!!! 🖖 [He/Him]
KellyAnn Fitzpatrick @kellyann.bsky.social here for tech, cats, and dragons. she/her. all views my own.
Alexis Richardson @monadic.bsky.social configurator
Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social Co-founder/CTO twice. In my heart I'll always be a webdev. Almost died twice (brain aneurysm and adrenal adenoma). Tacoma native living outside Seattle. She/her.
Claire Giordano ✨ @clairegiordano.bsky.social Love sailing ⛵️ in Greece, #PostgreSQL, open source, NH, POSETTE: An Event for Postgres #PosetteConf, chocolate 🐕 labs, my work @ Microsoft, the #TalkingPostgres #podcast—& taking pics with my phone. Not necessarily in that order. Opinions are my own.
JT Perry @circlejtp.me Dad, farmer, founder, robots, and tech. FIRST robotics coach, and volunteer working for all children to have an opportunity in STEM.
Co-founder: barnanalytics.com
Signal: @circlejtp.28
RedMonk @redmonk.com The developer-focused industry analyst firm
steve o’grady @sogrady.org helped found redmonk. if you see someone at a tech conference wearing a Red Sox hat, that's probably me. otherwise found in the great state of Maine. wrote the new kingmakers and the software paradox. married to @girltuesday.org. eph.
Craig @craigkerstiens.com Product @crunchydata previously MSFT/Citus/Heroku. Talk a lot about Postgres and startups. Why Postgres? https://www.crunchydata.com/why-postgres
Brian Grant @bgrant0607.bsky.social CTO/cofounder of ConfigHub. Original lead architect of Kubernetes and creator of its declarative configuration model.
Prayagmatic @prayagmatic.bsky.social SWE (SRE) @blinkiteng (@zomato) | LFX'22 @LitmusChaos | Ex-Community Advocate @ambassadorlabs | All things Cloud Native
Twitter: https://x.com/PrayagSavsani
Donnie Berkholz, Ph.D. @dberkholz.com SVP Platforms, Architecture & Research, Sabre. Everything from AI to Kubernetes to mainframes, value streams to UX to platforms.
Prev: (S)VP Percona/Docker/CWT, analyst 451/RedMonk, biophysicist Mayo Clinic/Oregon State, OSS Gentoo. Opinions mine.
CfgMgmtCamp @cfgmgmtcamp.bsky.social The Largest Open Source Infrastructure automation Conference 
Sven Schlijper-Karssenberg 🔻 @svenschlijper.bsky.social Art | Sounds | Books | Kick/Thaiboxing Twombly the cat
Daniel Dobriy @smntc.bsky.social Researcher & faculty member @DPKM dedicated to the field of AI, with the focus on knowledge technologies (knowledge graphs, semweb, RAG) & their use in e-gov, skills matching, research ecosystem, digital humanities and education. Partner @km-a.bsky.social.
CNCF containerd Team @containerd.dev The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) graduated container runtime project, containerd. Check us out at https://containerd.io
NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social San Diego Dec 2-7, 25 and Mexico City Nov 30-Dec 5, 25. Comments to this account are not monitored. Please send feedback to townhall@neurips.cc.
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social Solving business challenges with cloud and AI solutions. Technology Leadership, Solutions Architecture. NYC/Tampa. #aws #azure thechrispflum.com
Leon @mediocredevops.com Tinkerer | Customer Success | Devops
CoffeeOps
Hardware enthusiast
https://dev.to/mediocredevops
🧠🧪🐌
GH Handle: afro-coder
Currently trying to learn new language's, open to freelancing
🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈 @dnsmichi.dev 🦊 Principal Developer Advocate @GitLab.com
🌐 All-remote in Nuremberg
🚀 Embedded AI research
🛡️ Agentic AI modernization
🗺️ #lego #travel #drageekeksi #embedded #ai
🌈 https://dnsmichi.com/about/
Jason Cox @jasonacox.bsky.social Maker, Learner, Engineer, Writer - ❤️ OSS, GenAI, SRE, DevSecOps - Co-Author of Investments Unlimited
Jorge Castro 🇵🇷 🦖 @castrojo.bsky.social cncf․io/developer-relations:community • he/him • @jorge@hachyderm.io
Emeritus: VMware • Heptio • Kubernetes • Kubeflow • Canonical • Ubuntu • Cloud Custodian • US Army
Passion Projects: https://universal-blue.org 🦖 projectbluefin.io 🦖 bazzite.gg
Josh Berkus @fuzzychef.org Potter, Cook, Kubernetes geek.
Mostly on Mastodon (https://m6n.io/@fuzzychef) but I use this account too.
Daniel Oh @danieloh30.bsky.social Java Champion, CNCF Ambassador & TAG DevEX Co-Chair, Microsoft MVP, Developer Advocate, Technical Marketing, Keynote Speaker, Published Author bit.ly/danielohtv
Karena Angell @karenaangell.bsky.social Red Hat | Kubernetes | CNCF | Open Source
Davanum Srinivas (@dims) @dims.dev
#OpenSource Person, Principal Engineer for Nvidia. He/Him.
@madhavjivrajani.bsky.social @madhavjivrajani.bsky.social Systems @ UIUC | Helping Maintain The Kubernetes Project | GopherCon Co-Chair | ♥️ Theory + Systems | Views are my own.
Rajas Kakodkar @rajaskakodkar.bsky.social Staff Software Engineer at Broadcom • Kubernetes • All things Cloud Native and AI
Kim Bannerman @kimbannerman.bsky.social People 1st Tech 2nd | Developer Adoption @ Google Cloud | Co-founder of Empathetic Engineering w/ Kelsey Hightower | multi Neurodivergent Mama Bear
Opinions stated here are 100% my own based on my experience
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
Christine Kim @xtineskim.bsky.social 🐝 @ Isovalent
Xoogler
Chris Aniszczyk @cra.dev Building a better world through open collaboration: https://aniszczyk.org | CTO, CNCF and Linux Foundation
Rob Scott @robertjscott.ca Kubernetes networking at Google
@mrbobbytabl.es @mrbobbytabl.es Open Source Cat Herder | Emeritus K8s Steering Committee & ContribEx Chair | TPgM @ CNCF | Opinions are my own | he/him
Bilgin Ibryam @bibryam.bsky.social 📌 Architect, turned product manager
🦆 Co-author of Kubernetes Patterns
🎩 Product manager at Diagrid, ex Red Hat
🤖 AI newsletter for devs 👉 https://GenerativeProgrammer.com
caarlos0 @caarlos0.dev Husband;
Christian;
Works @charm.sh;
Creator & maintainer @goreleaser.com;
Lifter of heavy circles;
Enjoyer of server racks & black screens;
Ivan Velichko @iximiuz.bsky.social Software Engineer. Educator. Entrepreneur. Bootstrapping labs.iximiuz.com - a learning platform to help you master Linux, Containers, and Kubernetes 🚀
𝙳𝚘𝚝𝚊𝚗 𝙷𝚘𝚛𝚘𝚟𝚒𝚝𝚜 @horovits.bsky.social Tech and open source evangelist | Ambassador @cncf.io ⎈ | Ambassador @opensearch.org | Podcaster @openobservability.bsky.social 🎙️
Opinions - my own
linkedin.com/in/horovits
medium.com/@horovits
youtube.com/@horovits
fosstodon.org/@horovits
Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social Stuff I've written about includes Linux, tech, and open source, radical leftist politics, alternative spirituality, music (mainly rock, jazz, and American songbook, but any genre). Once upon a time radio talk show host, music DJ, and program director.
Michael Levan 👨🏻💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social Building High-Performing Agentic and Kubernetes Environments | AI Architect @Solo.io | CNCF Ambassador | Microsoft MVP (Azure) | AWS Community Builder | Published Author & International Public Speaker
Salaboy @salaboy.com https://www.salaboy.com OSS Software Engineer @diagridio @daprdev / CNCF TAG Developer Experience co-chair / Author: http://mng.bz/jjKP #dapr #oss #kubernetes
Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la southern roots, oakland blossoms 🌸
tech blah blah
@b.astrel.la’s weirder half
Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. -John Lewis
probably on threads https://www.threads.com/@theericajoy
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social Ex-liontamer, writer/editor/strategist.
I used to work for Wired, The Verge, The Atlantic, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles.
I also host sometimes at Kottke.org.
Call me he/him.
PHL.
Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
https://timcarmody.com
Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html
Jeremy Howard @howard.fm https://Answer.AI & https://fast.ai founding CEO; previous: hon professor @ UQ; leader of masks4all; founding CEO Enlitic; founding president Kaggle; various other stuff…
Kyle Lo @ ICML2026 🇰🇷 @kylelo.bsky.social language models, data & evals, prev co-lead of Olmo @ai2.bsky.social, nlp @uwcse, statistics @uw, open science, tabletop, seattle, he/him,🧋 kyleclo.com
Joscha Bach @joscha.bsky.social 
Raphaël Millière @raphaelmilliere.com Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Science
https://raphaelmilliere.com/
Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Author of Prophecy ("Witty and surprising...intelligent" - NYT) and Privacy Is Power (An Economist Book of the Year). TED Speaker. Posts about #privacy, #AIethics, #philosophy, #philtech
David Pfau @davidpfau.com So far I have not found the science, but the numbers keep on circling me.
Views my own, unfortunately.
David Manheim @davidmanheim.alter.org.il Humanity's future can be amazing - let's make sure it is.
Visiting lecturer at the Technion, founder https://alter.org.il, Superforecaster, Pardee RAND graduate.
Nicole Hennig @nic221.bsky.social E-learning dev & AI educator at U of Arizona Libraries. Former head of UX at MIT Libraries. Winner of MIT Excellence Award. nicolehennig.com. Digital nomad from 2013-17, locationflexiblelife.com.
- vegetarian
- car-free
- universal basic income: yes
Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social English Literature PhD turned ML Researcher.
I convert cold brews into noisy experiments.
Foundation Models @ Apple
NYC 🏳️🌈
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
Sam Bowman @sleepinyourhat.bsky.social AI safety at Anthropic, on leave from a faculty job at NYU.
Views not employers'.
I think you should join Giving What We Can.
cims.nyu.edu/~sbowman
Chris Brockett @chrisbrockett.bsky.social Data janitor and leftover linguist (retired). Tsundoku expert. Language & Cognition. NLP. Japanese literature. Anti-authoritarian. Pro-science. 
Tom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social Vision scientist. Professor at the Centre for Cognitive Science, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. 🇦🇺🇩🇪. pronoun.is/he
https://www.psychologie.tu-darmstadt.de/perception
Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social AI scientist & consultant :: prev Amazon Alexa, Toshiba, Cam Uni :: voice & language tech :: powered by coffee :: photographer :: Cambridge UK
https://www.catherinebreslin.co.uk
Jacob Eisenstein @jacobeisenstein.bsky.social natural language processing and computational linguistics at google deepmind.
Miles Brundage @milesbrundage.bsky.social AI policy researcher, wife guy, fan of cute animals and sci-fi, executive director of AVERI, Substacker
Thomas Wolf @thomwolf.bsky.social Co-founder @huggingface
Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com CS Prof at the University of Oregon, studying adversarial machine learning, data poisoning, interpretable AI, probabilistic and relational models, and more. Avid unicyclist and occasional singer-songwriter. He/him
Daniel Eth (yes, Eth is my actual last name) @daniel-eth.bsky.social AI alignment & memes | "known for his humorous and insightful tweets" - Bing/GPT-4 | prev: @FHIOxford
Noah Wardrip-Fruin @n-w-f.bsky.social UC Santa Cruz professor; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; co-editor MIT Press Software Studies series; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him
New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Personal website: http://www.noahwf.com
Jonathan Mannhart 🔎🔸 @jonathanm.bsky.social Interested in: cognitive science, Bayes, (ir)rationality, (effective) altruism, happiness, Al Alignment, reward hacking, running, reading books. He/him
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/ ]
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
Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social Comp. sci. prof. @ American University, Washington DC. AI & games researcher with miscellaneous other interests. https://www.kmjn.org/
Lorenzo Bertolini @lorenzoscottb.bsky.social Researcher at the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC). Multimodality & interpretability in AI for health. Occasionally, AI for dream research. All views are my own
https://lorenzoscottb.github.io
Nuño Sempere @nunosempere.com See clearly, act fast, hold myself well. Seek self-reinforcing loops, cherish allies, and play on the side of humanity.
Andreas Kirsch @blackhc.bsky.social My opinions only here.
👨🔬 RS DeepMind
Past:
👨🔬 R Midjourney 1y 🧑🎓 DPhil AIMS Uni of Oxford 4.5y
🧙♂️ RE DeepMind 1y 📺 SWE Google 3y 🎓 TUM
👤 @nwspk
Thomas Kober @tttthomasssss.bsky.social Linguational Computist
Bayesian Naïveist
Entropy Ma(r)ximist
Probably Approximately Correctist
Ekaterina Hertog @katyahe.bsky.social Associate Professor of AI & Society
Oxford Internet Institute and Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
Principal Investigator at DomesticAI (http://domesticai.oii.ox.ac.uk) project funded by ESRC
Kalyan Dutia @kdutia.bsky.social founding/senior data scientist at Climate Policy Radar working on ML for better climate decision-making from documents
kalyan.link / climatepolicyradar.org