Babak Tourani @babak-t.bsky.social Father to Lilly the Ragdoll | a nonbeliever in humans or Gods | Minimalism is my drug, especially in audio form | I deal with databases and data tools for money | former TV/Radio presenter & Basketball coach | have been figuring it out for a very long time
Mark Rittman @markrittman.bsky.social Brighton-based CEO of Rittman Analytics, a modern data analytics consultancy working with Looker, BigQuery, Qubit, Segment, Stitch, dbt, Google Cloud & Oracle
Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me Former Principal Engineer at AWS | I help software organizations anticipate, withstand, respond, and learn from failures using resilience and chaos engineering principles.
Views expressed here are my own.
Werner @wernervogels.bsky.social CTO @ Amazon
⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com whitep4nth3r.com
Staff Engineer at [REDACTED].
I am not on The Internet.
♥ drummer, maker of musics @chromasetica.com
Magnus Hagander @magnus.hagander.net Opensource advocate. PostgreSQL core team, committer, infrastructure team, board of PostgreSQL Europe. Working at https://redpill-linpro.com
Jelte Fennema-Nio @jeltef.nl Postgres contributor who's combining DuckDB & Postgres at @motherduck.com
Jonathan S. Katz @jkatz05.com Sr. Staff Product Manager @ Databricks | PostgreSQL Core Team member. Helping people to adopt and learn PostgreSQL! Opinions are my own. | https://jkatz05.com/
Ricardo Sueiras @094459.bsky.social Chief Mischief Maker. Loves open source, almost as much as pineapple on pizza
antirez @antirez.bsky.social Reproducible bugs are candies 🍭🍬
I like programming too much for not liking automatic programming.
Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com OSS Contributor | International Speaker | Distributed Systems | Databases | Software Development
Federico Campoli @pgdba.org Aspie. PostgreSQL DBA, Member of the high council of the timelords.
Amateur Jazz Guitarist.
All opinions are my own.
Joe Conway @josepheconway.bsky.social Head of PostgreSQL Contributor Team at Amazon, PostgreSQL committer, major contributor, infrastructure team, author PL/R extension (opinions == mine_alone)
Viktor Gamov @gamussa.dev Principal Developer Advocate at @confluent.io, ☕️Java Champion, Co-author Kafka in Action, Flink aficionado
Jen Nicholson @jen-nicholson.bsky.social Community lover, connecting techies to solve problems and grow their careers
Mike Dietrich @mikedietrichde.com Vice President Product Management - Database Upgrade, Migrations and Patching - Oracle Corp | Opinions are my own
Patrick Stählin @packi.ch Software engineer | OpenStreetMapper | Greenliberal | Board, President Digiges | Switzerland | @packi@chaos.social
Teresa Giacomini @tgcmn1.bsky.social Chair of POSETTE: An Event for Postgres, a free & virtual developer event hosted by Microsoft. Formerly of Citus Data, Sun, Oracle, Ingres & UC Berkeley. Love my chickens. One day I will live in Italy. https://www.linkedin.com/in/teresa-giacomini/
Diptanu Choudhury @diptanu.bsky.social CEO @tensorlake.bsky.social Past - AI Infrastructure at Facebook, LinkedIN, Hashicorp, Netflix
Ralph M. Debusmann @xdgrulez.bsky.social Ex-AI researcher, Ex-CTO, Lead Enterprise Kafka Engineer@Migros, Event Centric 2025 program curator, O'Reilly author
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
alex gallego @emaxerrno.bsky.social founder & ceo of redpanda data - ai.redpanda.com
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.
Jono Bacon @jonobacon.bsky.social Worked with 240+ tech companies to build user and/or developer audiences that drive adoption, revenue, and brand growth. 📓 Author 'People Powered' by Harper Collins. Not related to Kevin 🥓.
https://www.stateshift.com
Sam Julien @samjulien.com Happy dad, your biggest fan, professional gate-opener. Here to help.
Work: Director of DevRel at Writer (enterprise AI platform).
Writing 👉 samjulien.com
Newsletter 👉 deveopermicroskills.com
Book 👉 http://www.gettingstartedindevrel.com
Roel @apexconsulting.nl 👨💼 Director of APEX Consulting
👨💻 Sr. APEX Developer
♠️ Oracle ACE Director
🤷♂️ Board of NLOUG
🏃 Runner
📍 The Netherlands
Jose Manuel Cristóbal @jcristo2.bsky.social Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional
Bertrand Drouvot @bdrouvot.bsky.social Databases (mainly #PostgreSQL) stuff 🐘 - #PostgreSQL Major Contributor - Work @awscloud & all opinions are mine. 👉 http://github.com/bdrouvot - https://bdrouvot.github.io/ - @SLUCbasketNancy 🏀
Oracle Barbie @oraclebarbie.bsky.social Kate Helmer // Oracle Ace Director ♠️ // Oracle EDM/EPM/ERP Cloud Consultant // EDM!! // Blogger // wife // Harvey’s Mom 🐶
www.oraclebarbie.com
JimTheWhyGuy @jimthewhyguy.bsky.social Keynote Speaker, Technology Advocate, Author. Looking forward to a brighter future for our world!
Edelweiss Kammermann @edelweissk.bsky.social Analytics | Data Integration | AI & ML. Oracle ACE Director, Vice President of @uyoug, Education Director of @laouc
Luiza Nowak @luizafrompoland.bsky.social Co-founder of the Polish Oracle User Group 🫡
Employer Branding Specialist ✌️
I'm good at presentation design 💯
Sébastien Blanc @sebi2706.bsky.social My job is to make developers happy.
Technical Director @sciam.fr
Java champion, OSS, husband and father.
5 🐱
The guy at the end of Bruno’s leash @davidgs.com DevRel leader since forever, now Community nerd. Huge 💜, 🌶️🧠, dog lover, Rottweiler Rescuer, clumsy coder. Always kind, not always nice. Was @davidgsIoT on the other place. Rottfather. Friend of Bill’s.
🏡davidgs.com
Christian Minich @christianminich.com Dad, data, process, philosophy | Token Alchemist @Vercel | My wife says my headstone will read “sorry I’m late”
Eevamaija Virtanen @eevamaija.bsky.social Builder of the world’s bestly behaving agents.
Founding Engineer @ Agion
➡️ Sovereign Intelligence, AI Governance, Cognition Economy
Alex Casalboni @alexcasalboni.bsky.social Musician & Software Engineer from Italy 🇮🇹 Developer advocate @
https://www.getunleash.io
Caroline Lewko @carolinelewko.bsky.social CoFounder - DevRel.Agency, CoAuthor - Developer Relations Book, lives in Vancouver, Canada, but still just a small-town gal from Manitoba
Flora Barriele @floo.bar ⭕ Lift Implementation Technical Lead - Database at @Oracle
👩💻 Geek girl, promoting #womenintech
♠️ Oracle ACE Alumni
👁️ Views my own
Patrick Barel @patch72.bsky.social SQL and PL/SQL (Oracle) geek. Love to build Delphi stuff. Oracle ACED. The views expressed are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.
Peter Scott @dwpete.bsky.social Former herder of information and global fixer of broken stuff
Living legally in France with my kiwi wife. Don’t call me an expat, I’m a Brexit refugee.
Nuclear chemist, copy writer, provider of nuts to Secret Squirrels.
Chris Saxon @chrisrsaxon.bsky.social Oracle Developer Advocate for SQL. Lover of quizzes and games of all kinds. Any views expressed belong to me.
chrissaxon.co.uk
Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social Database-guy, Typo-maker, Voyager.
phd in I told you so, knighthood in...
Airport Queues ? Get a motorcycle !
Movie Quotes:
"You are a Meaningful and Valued member of ... "
"Activate the Omega 13"
HeliFromFinland @helifromfinland.bsky.social CEO, Miracle Finland Oy. CTO, Miracle SEA Consulting Pte. Ltd. Oracle ACE Director. Author, speaker. Doctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki.
Tim Hall @oraclebase.bsky.social A DBA/Developer who has a website.
David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com CEO, Expanso. Prev: Protocol Labs, MSFT, K8s, Kubeflow, GOOG, AMZN, etc. 4x founder/CEO. The universe is a vector in Hilbert space.
Erik van Roon @evrocs.bsky.social - Oracle DB Dev
- Oracle ACE Pro ♠️
- Symposium42 - https://sym42.org/
- Rambling fool
By default assume I'm not serious
Tweeted opinions are the one & only truth, and probably unfounded
Gerald Venzl @gvenzl.bsky.social Defender of Common Sense, Performance Enthusiast, #Database and #SQL guy, Creator of #csv2db. “Write code to solve problems, not to create them!” 🇦🇹
Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social Open source community stuff @edbpostgres.bsky.social | PostgreSQL CoCC Chair | pgkaraoke | @pgdaylowlands.bsky.social | Devopsdays Core Co-chair | chickens 🐔
Steffen Hoellinger @shoellinger.bsky.social Co-Founder & CEO at Airy | Data Streaming for AI
Amy Renee @amyengineer.bsky.social All things networking & security.
Sharer of knowledge, purveyor of puns, curator of amusement. Wielder of snark & sparkly bats.
@amyengineer@infosec.exchange
@amyengineer on the Twitters
Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social Kafka architect & developer, Java developer
MartinDotNet @martindotnet.bsky.social Observability Evangelist, DevRel @honeycomb.io, Microsoft MVP and #OpenTelemetry contributor.
I talk on stage about o11y and otel stuff... basically.
Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski Principal data engineer at PayIt in KCMO. Data engineering, platform engineering, devops, bicycles, Lego, DIY, KC. Husband. Pop to 2. He/him. Opinions mine. Don't park in bike lanes.
https://linktr.ee/menzenski
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.
Connor McDonald on Database and SQL @connormcd.bsky.social Hi I'm Connor McDonald!
🔥keen on tech esp. SQL/database
🔥keen on fitness
🔥keen on coffee
🔥keen on gin
🔥keen on sarcasm
I speak for me not my employer
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
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.
Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social Database Research @ ClickHouse
Associate Prof. of Databases @ Carnegie Mellon.
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
Ryanne Dolan @ry.codes BigTech BigData infra @ LinkedIn, Twitter, Cloudera
ram @sriramsub.bsky.social Founder and CEO at Nile (https://www.thenile.dev/). Previously: VP of Engineering at Confluent. Believe to win.
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
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
James Arthur @thruflo.com CEO & Co-founder @electric.ax
Jay Kreps @jaykreps.bsky.social 
Elad Leev @leevs.dev Staff Eng | Stream all the things | @confluentinc Community Catalyst 🦸| #DistributedSystems #DataStreams #Databases #Scalability #kafka #flink #golang
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.
Stéphane Derosiaux @sderosiaux.bsky.social co-founder conduktor.io. Random blurbs about Kafka, streaming, AI. Living in Brooklyn. Very French.
Gavin M. Roy @gavinroy.com CTO @ AWeber. Author of RabbitMQ in Depth. Opinions are obviously my own and not that of my employer.
https://github.com/gmr/
(he/him/his)
Devrim Gündüz @handle.invalid Open source geek, PostgreSQL major contributor, RPM packager, DJ, F1 fan, and daddy. 
Ryan Booz @ryanbooz.bsky.social @PostgreSQL and DevOps Advocate @Redgate.
Andrew Atkinson @andyatkinson.com Software Engineer, Author, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails
andyatkinson.com/pgrailsbook
Craig @craigkerstiens.com Product @crunchydata previously MSFT/Citus/Heroku. Talk a lot about Postgres and startups. Why Postgres? https://www.crunchydata.com/why-postgres
Mark Needham @markhneedham.com Product Marketing Engineer at ClickHouse
I make short videos on Local AI @ youtube.com/@LearnDataWithMark
Elizabeth Garrett Christensen @sqlliz.bsky.social #Postgres @snowflake via @crunchydata.com. Board member @pgus.bsky.social. Co-host of #PostGIS day.
Dennis Traub @dtraub.bsky.social Architecture in the Age of AI
Niall Mc Phillips @niallmcp.bsky.social ♠︎ Oracle ACE Director. Symposium 42. PL/SQL. ORDS. APEX. Data Models. REST APIs. Search. Text. Int'l Organisations. Energy. Ex-Skydiver... 🪂
Philipp Salvisberg @salvis.com Focused on database-centric development. Chat is open.
https://www.salvis.com/blog/about
Sean Scott @oraclesean.com Your database is down because you didn't listen to me.
I put databases in containers so I can cook, buy knives, run & give dogs the life they deserve. He/him.
Backup≠Recovery. Dogs>People. Trans Rights=Human Rights.
Stefan Oehrli @stefanoehrli.bsky.social Oracle ACE Director & Oracle Database Security Architect at Accenture. Securing Oracle databases since 1998. Co-author of 'Der Oracle DBA' (security chapter), speaker & trainer. Open Oracle security knowledge base → oradba.ch. Views my own.
Jose Rodriguez @jmrprieto.bsky.social Dad, husband, DBA, data plumber
Tomas Vondra @tvondra.bsky.social bug developer
Tanel Poder @tanelpoder.com A long-time computer performance nerd. Creator of https://0x.tools. Perf & troubleshooting blog: tanelpoder.com. All onions are mine!
Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu Oracle ACE Pro, SYM42, injured runner, otherwise normal
Database infrastructure, automation
Dirk Krautschick @d33k4y.bsky.social 
Richard Martens ♤ Oracle ACED @rhjmartens.bsky.social Husband, father of three, Nerd on all things related to Oracle APEX, Oracle PL/SQL and OCI
Mauro Pagano @mautro.com I mess around with data.
Built some free Oracle tools at some point.
I like cats, a lot.
Ben Dechrai @bendechr.ai International Speaker ▪️ Developer Advocate ▪️ Microsoft MVP ▪️ Building https://cfp.bendechr.ai ▪️ he/him
Darko Mesaroš @darko.rup12.net Yelling into the camera for @AWSCloud Welcome to some cloud and retro tech tweets. ☁ 💾 Opinions and ... skeets(?)... are my own! (he/him)
https://rup12.net
:wq!
David Sandilands @davidsandilands.bsky.social Father of two, Solutions Architect @launchdarkly.bsky.social and long suffering Scottish rugby fan. Author Puppet 8 for DevOps Engineers.
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io Erstwhile SRE, database person, human.
https://matt.blwt.io
Marco Slot @marcoslot.com Mostly posts about PostgreSQL, Snowflake Postgres, and PostgreSQL extensions.
Formerly Crunchy Data, Microsoft, Citus Data, AWS, TCD, VU
Kate Holterhoff, PhD @kateholterhoff.com Analyst @redmonk.com 📊
Affiliated researcher @ Georgia Tech 🎓
Author of 2 books 📚
Award-winning podcast host 🎙️
#AI #Frontend #JavaScript #DevX
Jeffrey Sica (@jeefy) @jeefy.dev Developer Experience & Programs @ CNCF | Kubernetes & OSS Advocate | Containers, DevOps, CI/CD are my jam. DMs open. Honk.
Timirah James @timirahj.bsky.social Worldwide Developer Relations @ Apple. 🥑 Lover of all things tech (and pink)! 💕✨
Founder @ TechniGal LA
**Thoughts/posts are my own.**