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.
Charity Majors @charity.wtf cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
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/
Andy @azdlowry.bsky.social 
Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com Writing The Pragmatic Engineer (@pragmaticengineer.com), the #1 technology newsletter on Substack. Author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook (engguidebook.com). Formerly at Uber, Skype, Skyscanner. More at pragmaticengineer.com
Pelayo Arbués @pelayoarbues.com Head of Data Science and AI at idealista.com | Film photographer | Ph.D. in Economics | Sharing my digital garden at pelayoarbues.com | Working full remote from the North of Spain
Chris @chris.blue 37% context left
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
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.
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.
Adi Polak @adipolak.bsky.social Code | Test | Deploy | Get paged
Data streaming, Machine Learning and AI app intensive Systems
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 Associate Prof. of Databases @ Carnegie Mellon.
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 · 🚴
rmoff 🏃♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net Shitposting & Memes.
Data & Stuff.
#dataBS #trailrunning
✍️ https://rmoff.net 🔗 https://rmoff.info
(DMs closed because of stupid UK age verification requirements).
Chris K Wensel @chris.wensel.net Co-Organizer of https://lu.ma/sf-distsys
Developer of https://github.com/ClusterlessHQ, https://cascading.wensel.net, and other data related projects.
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
Ryanne Dolan @ry.codes BigTech BigData infra @ LinkedIn, Twitter, Cloudera
Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com Founder polarsignals.com 🧊 ❄️ Building parca.dev, Prometheus maintainer. Distributed systems, databases, and performance engineering. Actually born in Berlin. (he/him)
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
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.
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 compute infra at LinkedIn.
ex-twitter/googlecloud/azure
dist sys enthusiast
github.com/ahmetb
Jeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev Principal engineer @ Cloudflare. I talk about tech sometimes
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.
Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh Dad. Technical Author, Data Engineer.
Data practitioner (20y) • Writing at ssp.sh since 2015.
Focused on the craft of data engineering & storytelling.
📚 vault.ssp.sh • 📖 @dedp.online
❯ #dataengineering, #opensource, #writing, #obsidian, #neovim
Jeremiah Lowin @jlowin.dev CEO @prefect.io. Building FastMCP. Mostly harmless.
Will Larson @lethain.com Write at lethain.com. Author of An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer, and An Engineering Executive’s Primer. Worked some places.
Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social Works with data, runs with swords.
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/
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
Ken @kenhorn.bsky.social Founder at cloudsinc.net, tabular ML, cloud, fintech, trading, snow, London, CTO, bass.
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
Nick Smit @nickste.bsky.social Product, growth, startups. Current PM for Amazon EventBridge @awscloud Prev. @kickstarter & Co-founder @Huzza_Live. Enabling creativity. Opinions my own.
Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social USA Today and LA Times bestselling author and stuff. ✨🎻🍩🚀🎵💖 Agent: Meredith Kaffel Simonoff.
Mark Collier @markcollier.me Austin Powered. OpenStack co-founder, OpenInfra Foundation COO, ex Rackspace & Yahoo! open source for fun & profit.
Open Source AI early and often
@sparkycollier on twitter and elsewhere
Links: markcollier.me 
Dawn O’Porter @hotpatooties.bsky.social CHOOSE LOVE. 
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
Olayemi Michael @olayemi.bsky.social Business Analyst | CEO of Zhaap.com 🚀 | Bridging business and tech to drive impactful solutions. Let's innovate and grow together! 🌟 |
www.olayemi.net
Michael @donohoe.dev Engineering & Product. I build media things for Journalism. Brooklyn, NYC. Personal views. donohoe.dev
Cher Scarlett @cher.blue Software engineer and physics student; x-Apple, JPL, Caltech, EarthScope
✊🏴☠️
https://cher.dev
Chris Reed @chrisreed.bsky.social Ginger and proud. Founder of Restless Communications. Arsenal fan
Hell de Jour @belledejour.bsky.social Model citizen, zero discipline
Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team COO of Bluesky 🦋 - hiring https://bsky.social/about/join!
Abby Fuller @abby.bsky.social Mom. Security for EC2 and friends at AWS. Carbohydrate fan. 
Emily Liu @emilyliu.me this bio is left as an exercise to the reader
🌱 emilyliu.me
Chaz Schlarp @chaz.schlarp.com Human replacement for the AWS docs, shameless MTG netdecker, Nix zealot, actual security engineer at Amazon. he/him
Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social Tired but doting computer auntie.
Jake Gold @jacob.gold Building AI infra @clor.com in SF Bay Area. Helped launch and scale Vibecode and Bluesky. Prev: Nuro, Docker, Google, and founder.
Addicted to history, computers, and open systems.
Unconditional love for all conscious life.
https://jacob.gold
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet. 
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair, container escape artist, goose in the mainframe. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴
MSP feed info: https://bsky.app/profile/amityf.bsky.social/post/3l3frqadlo32h
Aaron Crowder @crowdersoup.com Chief Engineer | Self-taught full-stack dev | Lover of technology | father of two | I like food
He/Him, They/Them.
✅ crowdersoup.com
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Angie Jones @angiejones.tech Tech's Favorite Auntie
VP Eng, AI Tools & Enablement @ Block
#techgirl1908
Martin SFP Bryant @martinsfp.bsky.social A big chunk of my life is made up of working in quantum technology and going to gigs. Occasionally I talk about those things here.
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Brianna Wu @brianna.bsky.social Former Candidate for US House in MA. Software engineer. Like to go fast. 🏎🏍🏃🏻♀️🎮 brianna@hey.com
Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll.org Principal Engineer at Google. Simplicity and optimism. Personal opinions.
KellyAnn Fitzpatrick @kellyann.bsky.social here for tech, cats, and dragons. she/her. all views my own.
Steren @steren.fr Engineer turned Product Manager
⬣ Google Cloud Run founder+leader
⬣ Google Cloud Carbon Footprint founder
steren.fr
𝕏: @steren
Jeff Wilcox @jeffwilcox.com Software nerd. GitHub fan. Belltown pedestrian + cyclist + EV enthusiast. Go Blue! Opinions mine.
Romain Jourdan @rjourdan.com 🤩Amazed by people's ingenuity and creativity |📈Committed to help others grow in their career | 👨💻WW Developer Relations @awscloud | 🎙️Host of The Pay-It-Forward Society Podcast | My views | #BLM
Miles Ward @milesward.com Clouds n AI n sousaphones n hugs
(CTO @ Insight/SADA, xGOOG, xAWS, xVT
in SEA, Bb, JS, FE, AFMB, BBQ OMGWTF)
Douglas Dollars @favorite.cat ID: @yourfondestlove in Twitter and Instagram
Regardless of my commentary, this account has nothing to do with my professional work as a grave digger / professional keyboardist within Google Cloud, so don’t be dumb.
🆘 650-448-9052 / doug@favorite.cat
Kelly Vaughn @kvlly.com Engineering leader. modernleader.is
Andrew Lombardi @andrewlombardi.com Head geek at Mystic Coders, proud father, software engineer, startup expert, father and passionate about PKM.
Former Sr SWE at Twitter
https://linktr.ee/kinabalu
ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/kinabalu