Ralph M. Debusmann @xdgrulez.bsky.social Ex-AI researcher, Ex-CTO, Lead Enterprise Kafka Engineer@Migros, Event Centric 2025 program curator, O'Reilly author
Aykut Bulgu @systemcraftsman.com #RedHatter, #CNCF Ambassador, ex- #Kafka Community Catalyst, Principal Engineer #openshift prev. #ansible, #strimzi. Tech Writer & Trainer, #Rockets fan
Guillaume Laforge @glaforge.dev 🥑 Developer Advocate for Google Cloud ☁️
🧠 Focusing on Generative AI 🤖
⭐ Co-founder of the 🪶 Apache Groovy programming language
☕ Java Champion 🏆
📣 Co-host of Les Cast Codeurs Podcast
🐘 @glaforge@uwyn.net on #Mastodon
Mark Needham @markhneedham.com Product Marketing Engineer at ClickHouse
I make short videos on Local AI @ youtube.com/@LearnDataWithMark
YoavCodes @yoav.codes Technical founder. Building new stuff at my startup lab https://blackboard.sh | 20+ years in early startups | prev: 7 years at webflow
You might have met me as Jeff, Joab, or Larry.
#startups #ziglang #typescript #bun #electrobun #webflow
Kevin Biger @kbiger.bsky.social IT Consultant. The opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of any employer/client past or present
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
Adam Bellemare @abellemare.bsky.social Technologist. Event-Driven Architectures and Data. Author of O'Reilly's "Building Event-Driven Microservices" and "Building an Event-Driven Data Mesh".
Alex Boten @boten.ca Writes open source software and about technology sometimes. Problems solver & author. He/him https://dot.cards/codeboten
@usrbinkat.io @usrbinkat.io 🧙♀️ Open Sourceress
🚀 Ms. (f)Rizzle @Cisco
🏳️⚧️ Blame for Oops & Ops my own
🤗 Seize the means of computing
👩💻 K8s/AWS/Azure Platform Engineer
📖 https://blog.usrbinkat.io/en/page/about
🍿Watching Dystopia IRL
🧠 Neuro Spicy Autist
📍 Sacramento ☀
Olena Kutsenko @olenakutsenko.bsky.social Developer Advocate and Software Engineer | AWS Community Builder | International Speaker | Teacher at non-profit tech school. 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇪🇸 All views are my own.
https://www.youtube.com/@OlenaKutsenko
Alex Merced @alextalksdatalakehouses.fyi Co-Author on 2x O’reilly books, 1x Manning book and much more content on Data Lakehouses, Apache Iceberg and Software Development. Learn more at AlexMerced.com
Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me sunshine and rainbows and f-bombs 🌈
she/her
@redmonk
The Streaming Otter @thestreamingotter.bsky.social The unoffical Apache Kafka Streams account. Long live the otter.
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.
Responsive @responsive.dev An efficient way to ingest, analyze, and export telemetry data at a fraction of the cost.
Lili Cosic @lilicosic.com 👩🏻💻 Senior Database Engineer @InfluxData working on InfluxDB v3 Enterprise.
I enjoy talking about databases, observability and good food.
Previously @ HashiCorp, Red Hat.
Now in Berlin 🇩🇪 from 🇸🇮
Holden Karau @holdenkarau.com she/her, mostly OSS big data (Spark, Dask, Ray, and friends). I ❤️☕️🛵. I don't represent my employer. Live @ http://twitch.tv/holdenkarau , http://tech.lgbt/@holden , Twitter was @holdenkarau
Chloe Condon @chloecondon.bsky.social Developer Advocate at Google ☁️ & recovering musical theatre girl 🎶🎭
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair, goose in the mainframe. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴
MSP feed info: https://bsky.app/profile/amityf.bsky.social/post/3mrv36uo4pc2a
Charity Majors @charity.wtf cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
Andy Grove @andygrove.io Apache Arrow & DataFusion PMC Member. Original creator of Apache DataFusion.
Joy Gao @joygao.bsky.social software engineer at ClickHouse; prev: Figma, WePay
long-form ✍️: https://expertofobsolescence.substack.com
Julien Le Dem @julien.ledem.net Principal Engineer, Founder, Angel, Advisor, OSS.
LFAI&data: OpenLineage, Marquez, ASF: Parquet, Arrow, Iceberg, 🐖
he/him.
Me: https://julien.ledem.net/
Blog: https://sympathetic.ink
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.
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
Hannes Mühleisen @hannes.muehleisen.org I like databases and boats. Co-creator of @duckdb.org, Co-Founder and CEO DuckDB Labs.
Craig @craigkerstiens.com Product @crunchydata previously MSFT/Citus/Heroku. Talk a lot about Postgres and startups. Why Postgres? https://www.crunchydata.com/why-postgres
Teej @teej.bsky.social building Downlink (yc w24)
William Morgan @williammorgan.me Chief Email Outputter at Buoyant. Linkerd spokesnerd. Twitter refugee and former engineer
📍Austin, TX
Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Building digital infrastructure that lasts with #linux #virtualization #containers #kubernetes #gnome
Head of R&D @loopholelabs, on the board @vanlug and member […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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
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).
Adam Boscarino @ajbosco.dev Cat Dad, SciFi/Fantasy Nerd, Cocktail Enthusiast, Sports Fan, Data Engineer
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
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
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
Jeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev Principal engineer @ Cloudflare working on Observability Things
Location: Squamish, BC 🇨🇦
Website: https://jeremymorrell.dev/
Patrick Loeber @patloeber.com 
David Neal @reverentgeek.com ambassador of awesome 🥓 bearded believer 🥑 doodle-driven devrel 🥑 silly speaker 🥓 mediocre musician 🥓 @mongodb.bsky.social developer advocate
https://reverentgeek.com/links/
Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social Kafka architect & developer, Java developer
Chris @chris.blue 37% context left
Danibioinfo @danibioinfo.bsky.social Like Deoxyribonucleaic cloud computing & stuff 🧬
Ryanne Dolan @ry.codes BigTech BigData infra @ LinkedIn, Twitter, Cloudera- S Sam Leach @sleach.bsky.social
James Ward @jamesward.com Just another nerd with a podcast: happypathprogramming.com
And a book:
effectorientedprogramming.com
Oleg Šelajev @shelajev.bsky.social Oleg Šelajev is a developer advocate at Docker working mainly on developer productivity, Testcontainers, improving how we set up local development environments and tests, and building applications with AI parts. Developer. Author. Speaker. Java Champion. D
Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com Spring Developer Advocate
Java Champion
Kotlin Google Dev Expert
https://YouTube.com/@coffeesoftware
https://github.com/joshlong
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
Viktor Gamov @gamussa.dev Principal Developer Advocate at @confluent.io, ☕️Java Champion, Co-author Kafka in Action, Flink aficionado
jbáruch 🎩 @jbaru.ch DevRel Team tessl.io
Java Champion, Ex-CNCF Ambassador.
Co-author of #LiquidSoftware and #DevOps Tools for #Java Developers.
Gwen Shapira @gwenshap.bsky.social Founder of SaaS Developer Community and Nile Database. 
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.
Sean Gilligan @msgilligan.bsky.social You can also find me on Mastodon: https://foojay.social/@msgilligan
Danica Fine @thedanicafine.bsky.social Opinions my own.
Developer Advocate. 🥑 ❄️
http://linktr.ee/thedanicafine
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.
Kris Jenkins @krisajenkins.bsky.social Lifelong Programmer, Host of the Developer Voices podcast.
Anna McDonald @jbfletch.bsky.social Jessica Fletcher/She-Ra mashup wielding a laptop and an insane amount of curiosity Event Driven Everything, Kafka Duchess 👑 #BillsMafia She/her 
Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social Opinions about product management, technology news and inclusivity in tech. Diversity is about demographics, inclusion is about creating a sense of belonging.
Chris Albon @chrisalbon.com 
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
Fabio Pliger @fpliger.bsky.social Creator of PyScript, writing sw at Anaconda, Inc, really into food, photography, traveling, among other things 
Chris Withers @chris.withers.org Python, music, bit of BBQ and things…
Cosima @cosima.bsky.social Loves working with data 👩🏼💻
#socialscientist turned #datascientist; thinking a lot about bias, building sustainable ML products and diversity in tech
Working on @rladies-bot.bsky.social and @pyladies-bot.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/cosima_meyer
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Dawn G W @bajoranengineer.bsky.social (She/her) DevRel + Community Advocacy Dir @ Anaconda, ex-Microsoft, The PSF, WagtailCMS, Djangonaut Space. #BlackSky 🌈
Calvin Hendryx-Parker @calvinhp.com AWS Community Hero | Python, Django, Orchestration & Containers | CTO and Founder | IndyPy & IndyAWS | FreeBSD, Linux & ZFS
Lizzie Siegle @lizziesiegle.com Developer 🥑advocate @ Cloudflare⛅️🔥, twin, mixed, car-free, yimby. 💕#gsw🎾📚🚴♀️🏃🏻♀️👩🏻💻
Mason Egger @mason.dev On my business card, I am a Solutions Architect
Temporal. In my mind, I am an engineer. But in my heart, I am a teacher | PyTexas organizer | 🏳️🌈🌈
Pandy Knight @automationpanda.bsky.social 🐼 AutomationPanda.com
🔵 Sr. Dir of Product Mgmt at Cycle Labs
🎭 Playwright Ambassador
🐶 French Bulldog owner
🚘 Vintage VW enthusiast
🧋 Bubble tea connoisseur
Adi Polak @adipolak.bsky.social Code | Test | Deploy | Get paged
Data streaming, Machine Learning and AI app intensive Systems
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 · 🚴
Ale Murray @alemu.bsky.social Director of Community @ Confluent 
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
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 🌮
http://hanselman.com/about
Taylor Poindexter @engineeringbae.bsky.social Engineering Manager @ Spotify💚
Black Code Collective co-founder ✊🏾
Scuba Diver 🧜🏽♀️🤿
Whiskey expert — IG: womanwithwhiskey
Adventurer 🗺️
Brad @bradsbrown.dev Dev (Python, mostly), dad, Baylor Bear, student pilot. I read too much.
Marlene @marlene.bsky.social Pythonista, explorer living in London atm, AI & Python at Microsoft🐍✝️✨
Rizel Scarlett 🇦🇬🇬🇾 @blackgirlbytes.bsky.social Tech Lead, Open Source Developer Relations @opensource.block.xyz
Prev:Dev advocate at GitHub. Graduated from Resilient Coders.
In my free time, I like to annoy my husband and binge watch reality tv shows.
I'm a new mom.
#BlackSky
Francesco Tisiot @ftisiot.bsky.social Field CTO and DevEx at Aiven | Data | Databases | Streaming | Food
matty stratton @matty.wtf I have friends everywhere
Chicagoland area
Dogs > people
he/they
Contact info: https://links.mattstratton.com/
#DevRel #DevOps #Weightlifting