Signal @signal.org Signal is a nonprofit end-to-end encrypted communications app. Privacy isn’t an optional mode, it’s the way Signal works. Every message, every call, every time. https://signal.org/donate/
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
MTG Arena @mtgarena.com like the irl card game but not irl
teropa @teropa.bsky.social One half of Counterpoint. Building music systems for wellbeing and movement.
Peter Kraft @petereliaskraft.net Co-founder @ http://dbos.dev • Stanford PhD • Database Geek • Building https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-py
Natalie Vais @nvais.bsky.social gp at spark capital ✨ databases, infra, dev tools
Paul Copplestone - e/postgres @kiwicopple.bsky.social ceo @supabase | YC S20
database.new
Ryan Coetzee @ryancoetzee.bsky.social Liberal. Humanist.
Politics. Government. Rugby. Wine.
Stephan Ewen @stephanewen.bsky.social Building distributed systems and data infra.
Previously co-creator of Apache Flink (https://flink.apache.org/),
now building Restate (https://restate.dev/) to make distributed apps more easily resilient and scalable.
FerrousSystems @ferroussystems.bsky.social Ferrous Systems builds stable software in and around Rust. We focus on development, tooling and training for embedded systems and network services. https://ferrous-systems.com
Ryan Abernathey @rabernat.bsky.social Scientist and Startup Founder
Co-Founder and CEO @Earthmover
@pangeo_data steering council member
ex-Professor @Columbia @LamontEarth
shikhar @schmizz.net Making streams serverless @s2.dev
Tom Houlé @tomhoule.com Dog person, software engineer, pedestrian. Interests: system and database engineering, etc. (he/him)
Michael Jurewitz @jury.bsky.social iOS, macOS, F1, cars, photography, and food. jury.me
Mara Bos @mara.bsky.social Rust dev, Electronics engineer, Author, RustNL, RustWeek organizer, ADHD, Polyamorous, Lesbian, She/Her
Raphael Lacoste @raphaellacoste.bsky.social Art Director @ Haven Studios / Sony
Former prince of Persia and Assassin’s Creed Art Director, Illustrator, Photographer, traveler …
Francis Jackson @francisbjackson.bsky.social I turn complex problems into simple actions. Invest in sync with our social & environmental context. South African. EMBA. Engineer. Systems thinker. Humanoid.
Jeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev Principal engineer @ Cloudflare working on Observability Things
Location: Squamish, BC 🇨🇦
Website: https://jeremymorrell.dev/
Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social Editor of The Progress Playbook: https://theprogressplaybook.com
We focus on proven climate and sustainable development solutions.
Email me for collaboration opportunities: nick.hedley@theprogressplaybook.com
Matt Sieren @sierenmusic.bsky.social music, code, art, design and the occasional chaos | daytime product builder @ableton | nighttime musician at Friends of Friends (ex R&S Records/Ki/Various) | Contributor @AudioKitPro / SynthOne
Tigris Data @tigrisdata.com Tigris is a globally distributed S3-compatible object storage service that provides low latency anywhere in the world. | https://tigrisdata.com | Based in SFO
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
Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social CEO @paradedb.com • H'20 • 🇫🇷🇨🇦
https://philippemnoel.posthaven.com
Vicki @vickiboykis.com Founding list[float] engineer. Recsys. Personalization. Infra. Systems. Normcore code. Nutella. Vectors. Words. Vibes. Bad puns (soon).
https://vickiboykis.com/what_are_embeddings/
dan @danabra.mov no, this is how it works
Tim Bray @tbray.org Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.
I’m mainly on Fedi, @cosocial.ca@timbray. On this account I mostly post #blueskyabove photos; for more, if you’re not on Fedi try @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
Gwen Shapira @gwenshap.bsky.social Founder of SaaS Developer Community and Nile Database. 
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 · 🚴
Michael Gasch @embano1.mgasch.com Product Manager AWS. Golang. Distributed Systems.
Views and opinions are my own.
Manish Gill @manishgill.bsky.social Engineering Manager @clickhouse.com | Databases | Kubernetes | http://parallelthoughts.xyz | https://berlinsystems.xyz/ | https://cal.com/manishgill | AI Research @TomTom
Delhi raised, Berlin based.
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io Erstwhile SRE, database person, human.
https://matt.blwt.io
Will Froese @wfroese.bsky.social All things software. VP Software Engineering.
Rohan Desai @rohanpd.bsky.social Co-Founder of @responsive.dev. Views are my own.
Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk Empathetic human. Developer Experience and Developer Relations. Web Engineer.
🏡 https://leggetter.co.uk
💼 https://hookdeck.com / @hookdeck.com
Xiangpeng Hao @xiangpeng.systems Database/storage
Flight/DataFusion/Arrow/Parquet
PhD student@UW-Madison
https://xiangpeng.systems
Felix Geisendörfer @felixge.de Working at Datadog on Go Profiling, Performance, OpenTelemetry and more.
Before:
- Manufacturing Observability at Apple
- Co-founder at Transloadit
- Node.js Core Dev
Max Rozen @rozenmd.com Building Workers & D1 at Cloudflare. Aussie in France.
Building https://OnlineOrNot.com, a self-funded, sustainable company.
He/Him.
Alex Hillman @alexhillman.com ➡️ Rebel scum. Disinvoltura.
🎯 Business + community.
📙 Author https://tiny.mba.
💰 Teacher https://stackingthebricks.com
🤝 indyhall.org fearless leader since 2006.
🏴☠️ Pirate captain http://10k.city.
❤️ he/him. Partner. 
joel 🌦️ @joelhooks.com lvl 16 half-orc nerd. jazz lover. freak for synths.
education @vercel.com. education products at @badass.dev. building @egghead.io since 2013.
now 👉 https://joelhooks.com/now
PDX (Vancouver, WA)
Reuben Bond @rbn.bsky.social Distributed Systems & databases person. Works at Microsoft on Orleans & Aspire
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
Ivan Prisiazhnyi @johnkoepi.bsky.social Software Engineer, System Programming, Distributed Systems
Ananth Packkildurai @ananthdurai.bsky.social Editor Data Engineering Weekly; subscribe www.dataengineeringweekly.com. In Prgress, LakeByte
Andy Grove @andygrove.io Apache Arrow & DataFusion PMC Member. Original creator of Apache DataFusion.
Edward Ribeiro @eribeiro.bsky.social Software Engineer. Former Amazon and DataStax, among others. Lecturer. Obsessed with Databases, Distributed systems and OSS.
Jared Wright @jaredwright17.bsky.social 
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
Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com Cofounded @authzed.com. Exited Red Hat, CoreOS.
I build distributed systems, databases, authorization systems, containers, and businesses. NYC transplant in SF.
Jeremiah Lowin @jlowin.dev CEO @prefect.io. Building FastMCP. Mostly harmless.
ram @sriramsub.bsky.social Founder and CEO at Nile (https://www.thenile.dev/). Previously: VP of Engineering at Confluent. Believe to win.
@couchdb @couchdb.bsky.social HTTP + JSON document database with Map Reduce views and bi-directional replication. Views are my own. Time to relax.
Pekka Enberg @penberg.org @🏡🇫🇮🇪🇺🧑💻
Pierre Zemb @pierrezemb.fr 🧑💻 Staff Engineer @clever-cloud.com
🤩 Distributed and Database Systems
🚀 Co-leader Finistdevs.org
💪 Squash player
Murat (Distributolog) @muratdemirbas.bsky.social Distributed systems,Database systems, Lightweight formal methods, TLA+
https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/
Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social Database Research @ ClickHouse
Associate Prof. of Databases @ Carnegie Mellon.
Russ Cox @swtch.com 
Heidi Howard @heidihoward.bsky.social 
v @avi.im breaking databases @tur.so W1 '21 @recursecenter.bsky.social
excited about databases, storage engines and message queues
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/
Glauber Costa @glaubercosta.bsky.social Former Linux Kernel, ScyllaDB, Datadog - storage, virtualization, low level stuff.
Founder/CEO at https://turso.tech
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 🇸🇮
Richard Bishop @richardb.bsky.social Distributed systems, databases, and the foundational primitives for better (more robust, efficient, accessible) computing.
Currently at Snowflake building managed Postgres. Formerly Crunchy Data and AWS.
Jordan Lewis @largedatabank.com Sr Director of engineering @ Cockroach Labs.
Brooklyn
Check me out: https://largedatabank.com
The old site: https://twitter.com/largedatabank
Justin @jaffray.bsky.social turning to the succor of modern computing machines, let us renounce all analytic tools
https://buttondown.com/jaffray justinjaffray.com- M @markcallaghan.bsky.social @markcallaghan.bsky.social
Werner @wernervogels.bsky.social CTO @ Amazon
Alex Miller @alexmillerdb.bsky.social Database Papers as a Service
@ me with your DB paper questions or “what do I read for ___” topic requests
Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social Distributed and Storage Systems. Apache Cassandra Committer and PMC member. Author of Database Internals. Mountain person. http://databass.dev/
Marc Brooker @marcbrooker.bsky.social Serverless, databases, and serverless databases at AWS. Views my own.
Check out my blog: https://brooker.co.za/blog/
Kuba Martin @kubamartin.com Director of R&D Engineering @ Spacelift; various open-source stuff on GH
developer/devops/data tooling, distributed systems, databases, and lots of other tech stuff
Reddit/HN/GH:cube2222
Opinions my own.
Chris @chris.blue 37% context left
Thorsten Ball @thorstenball.com Author of interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com. Working at Sourcegraph. Previously Zed. Programming where the rubber hits the road. Writing Register Spill at: registerspill.thorstenball.com
Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social on software infrastructure @theconsensus.dev.
theconsensus.dev
Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com VP of Data Engineering at Dash0. Previously, founder of Polar Signals (acquired by Dash0).
Nick Carver @nickcarver.bsky.social Artist & developer making a cool thing with cool people. Prev: Riot, Blizzard, Epic, Heart Machine, Phoenix Labs, Wildlife, FRD. Inventor of the Crumpwich.
Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social 🍉Fun Stack Vibing at @xogot.bsky.social
Started Xamarin, Mono, Gnome. Prev: Microsoft/.NET/Xamarin/Mono/VSMac/MAIA http://mastodon.social/@migueldeicaza
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
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social 2nd longest-running livestream on YouTube. Live from an urban coral reef in Miami. A public art & scientific research project by Coral Morphologic (https://bsky.app/profile/coralmorphologic.bsky.social) ◦ coralcitycamera.com
Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social Storm chaser. Volcano hunter. University Physics, Astronomy, & Earth Science Instructor. MS Physics/BS Astrophysics. Rockhounder & Mineral Collector. Raccoon whisperer. Allow me to share our planet's beauty with you. linktr.ee/spahn711
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet. 
Victorio at Creative Chaos Photography @victorio.bsky.social He/Him. NYC based freelance photographer. I focus on the beauty and humanity inherent in the people and places I take photos of. #ChaosPhotos #SupportArtists
www.creativechaosphotography.com/Quick-Links
Carlos Rivera | Chicago Photographer @handle.invalid [ ✶ ] Chicago
100% Human Made
More paper, less pixels.
DM for collabs
📷
https://bio.site/carlosrivera.mx
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
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.