Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com GP&CTO @blueyard.com
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Regenerative Software with the Phoenix Architecture: https://aicoding.leaflet.pub/
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social Author of The Psychology of Software Teams: https://www.drcathicks.com/#book
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Honeycomb @honeycomb.io Honeycomb is the observability platform built for the new shape of software.
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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com Always fighting for the people.
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markcarney.ca 
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Keeley 🌸 @vertedin.de Core @ Electron. Prev: Staff Eng @ Slack. Loves electric bikes, coffee, horror games & planting tomatoes.
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wasmCloud @wasmcloud.com wasmCloud is an open source, incubating CNCF project. It enables teams to build polyglot applications composed of reusable Wasm components, and run them across any cloud, Kubernetes, datacenter, and edge.
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I think therefore, here we go again.
@resilienceinsoftware.org @resilienceinsoftware.org 
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Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev 👩💻 Sr Dir of DevRel at @GitHub.
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dietrich @burrito.space peeking into the post-browser web
~ https://metafluff.com
~ https://webtransitions.org
~ https://userandagents.org
~ @intenttoship.dev
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Fletcher Nichol @fnichol.com I am the human that helps you build better, faster, and more humane product through software.
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kat cosgrove @kat.lol village sorcerer @villagesql.com
kubernetes steering committee, release team subproject lead, sig docs tech lead, uwubernetes, colorado springs via memphis
she/they
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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social Opinions my own.
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Sr Director of Engineering @ Google: Core Web, Android, iOS Infrastructure
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https://www.engmanagement.dev/
https://github.com/sdras
Fatih Arslan @arslan.io Software Engineer at PlanetScale. Creator of vim-go. Design addict. Photographer. Previously at GitHub, DigitalOcean.
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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.
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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair, container escape artist, goose in the mainframe. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴
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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me I have thoughts. Lots of thoughts. They never stop thinking. Never stop thunking.
hachyderm.io/@hazelweakly
Charity Majors @charity.wtf cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social Cofounder at Freeman & Forrest, author, cartoonist, and Pwnie Award-winning songwriter. Ex-Google. Here to help.
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Professional interests and contact information:
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emily freeman @emilyfreeman.bsky.social Co-founder and CEO, Freeman & Forrest.
Bestselling author of DevOps for Dummies and international keynote speaker. I’ve led Community, DevRel and Product Marketing at AWS, MSFT, and startups.
I was editingemily on Twitter.
Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com #rustlang, #jj-vcs, atproto, shitposts, urbanism. I contain multitudes.
Working on #ruelang but just for fun.
Currently in Austin, TX, but from Pittsburgh. Previously in Bushwick, the Mission, LA.
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
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.
Terra Field @rainofterra.gay Jersey Girl in SF, Infra Engineer @ NVIDIA on DGX Cloud, 🏳️⚧️ Trans. Probably playing Balatro or FFXIV. Ex Blizzard, Netflix, Cloudera, Honeycomb. Opinions mine, obvs.
@dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com All sorts of SRE things. Breaker of all things. Source of the #botrosd hashtag. Professional finder of problems.
Author of High Performance MySQL 4th edition
Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app 
Adam Jacob @adamhjk.me CEO of System Initiative, Co-Founder of Chef. Open source. Heavy metal and music. Comics. @adamhjk on Twitter, @adamhjk@hachyderm.io on Masotodon. 
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🥄❄️🐆👩🏽💻 in 🇦🇺🇨🇦 working on 🍯⬢🔭
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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com I want you to win and be happy. Code, OSS, STEM, Beyoncé, T1D, open source artificial pancreases, Portland, 3D printing http://hanselminutes.com inclusive tech podcast! VP/Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft/GitHub 🌮
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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com I do computers. Married to @radkat.fitzpat.com. Three kids. Xoogler.
Go (#golang) team 2010~2020. Made LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached. Currently at @Tailscale.com making WireGuard easy.
Seattle, WA // Bainbridge
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Angie Jones @angiejones.tech Tech's Favorite Auntie
VP Eng, AI Tools & Enablement @ Block
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Thomas Fuchs @thomasfuchs.at 20 years ago I killed Flash with my #JavaScript library script.aculo.us. Now mostly petting cats. Also dabbling in #retrocomputing and #astrophotography.
He/him.
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
Kevin Stewart @kstewart.me Rediscovering the joy of building 🛠️
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev Knuck if you buck practitioner
Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social The myth of white supremacy is not who you are. It is what was done to you. Why not try life beyond the supremacy myth?
https://linktr.ee/LifeBeyondTheSupremacyMyth
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
David Fowler @davidfowl.com Distinguished Engineer @ Microsoft 🧐. Creator of NuGet, SignalR and ASP.NET Core, Barbadian 🇧🇧, Tennis Player.