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XBOW @xbow.com Bringing AI to offensive security by autonomously finding and exploiting web vulnerabilities. https://xbow.com/
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Jeff Dinkins @jeffatsun.bsky.social I manage the Java Core Libraries team at Oracle. I also draw Duke images in my spare time. And play guitar. And collect vintage Zenith remote controls. Yes, I'm an odd duck. All opinions are my own.
ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com Just a passionate dev, learning from this community daily.
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Andrew Cairns @acairns.co.uk Using metaphors and analogies to explain Software Engineering in fun ways: https://youtube.com/@metaphoricallyspeaking
Staff Software Engineer. Passionate about DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing and Distributed Systems.
Kayaking, too.
WarpStream @warpstream.com WarpStream is the original diskless, Apache Kafka®-compatible data streaming platform, built directly on top of object storage: zero disks, zero inter-AZ costs, zero cross-account IAM access required. Scales infinitely and runs in your VPC.
Alexandre Bertails @alex.bertails.org UDA (Unified Data Architecture) and Upper domain modeling language at Netflix. Former , W3C/MIT. RDF expert who prefers Scala over Java. One Piece nerd.
Dale Lane @dalelane.co.uk Developer for IBM. Kafka. Flink. Kubernetes. AI. ML. Gadgets. Gaming. Coffee. Creator of Machine Learning for Kids.
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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social machine learning engineer lost in the world of databases
Laszlo Kiss @laszlokiss.bsky.social software developer, founder of actorle.com and whichcountrytomoveto.com
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
Gabriel Archanjo @garchanjo.com Co-founder at @BotCity (YC W22)
OSS Maintainer at MarvinJ and Marvin
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Wes McKinney @wesmckinney.com Principal Architect @posit.co, GP Composed Ventures, Co-founder Voltron Data. Open source: Apache Arrow, pandas, Ibis. "Python for Data Analysis" book
Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social Google Chief Scientist, Gemini Lead. Opinions stated here are my own, not those of Google. Gemini, TensorFlow, MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner, ML things, ...
Apache Software Foundation (The ASF) @apache.org The global home for open source software, powering some of the world’s most ubiquitous software projects in web, big data, Java, IoT, cloud computing, and more. Learn more at https://apache.org.
Mark Johnson @markjohnsonit.bsky.social Helping Federal orgs get more from emerging tech. Husband, father, retired Navy pilot. Databricks employee, but all opinions only mine.
Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social Senior Research Associate, Social Computing Group, U of Zurich. Computational social/communication scientist
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MongoDB @mongodb.bsky.social A developer data platform for developers to do their best work. #LoveYourDevelopers
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Cagatay Ozdemir @cagatayozdemir.bsky.social lead in software development | semiconductors | podcaster | starting CrossFit | growth mindset | sharing is caring!
David Jacot @dajac.bsky.social Apache Kafka PMC; Software Engineer @ Confluent.
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Peter Kraft @petereliaskraft.net Co-founder @ http://dbos.dev • Stanford PhD • Database Geek • Building https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-py
Christoph Strobl @christophstrobl.bsky.social Father of 3. Plant-based 247365 workout enthusiast. Spring Data engineer. Organizer ejug Austria. Author http://amazon.de/dp/B09JJ9D785. He/Him.
Mario Zechner @mariozechner.at You may know me from the Austrian parliament or national library, "hacktivist", computers this and that.
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https://www.wired.com/story/heisse-preise-food-prices/
@badlogic@mastodon.gamedev.place
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Paul Copplestone - e/postgres @kiwicopple.bsky.social ceo @supabase | YC S20
database.new
Cedric Clyburn @cedricclyburn.com Developer Advocate at Red Hat • Organizer KCD New York • Previously at MongoDB • containers, k8s, & everything in between
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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social PRQL Evangelist, Chief Excel Officer, MAD* Scientist, Pythonista, Rustacian (*: ML, AI, Data)
Aykut Bulgu @systemcraftsman.com #RedHatter, #CNCF Ambassador, ex- #Kafka Community Catalyst, Principal Engineer #openshift prev. #ansible, #strimzi. Tech Writer & Trainer, #Rockets fan
Andrew Block @andyserver.com Distinguished Architect at Red Hat. Developer, Maintainer, Innovator. Sports and Travel Junkie
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JohBlau @jobla.bsky.social Developer, Software Architect, IT Trainer. Passion for 3D printing.
Cat servant.
Martin Stefanko @xstefank.bsky.social Principal SW engineer at RedHat, BrnoJUG leader, MicroProfileIO, QuarkusIO, smallrye_io, WildflyAS, JBoss, author of Quarkus in Action (http://mng.bz/7vl7)
Eric Deandrea @ericdeandrea.dev @java-champions.bsky.social | Sr. Principal Software Engineer (@quarkus.io) @IBM | speaker | author | @bostonjavausers.bsky.social Vice Chair & board member | tinkerer | boater | black belt in martial arts | Opinions are my own
Mads Opheim @madsopheim.com Sosialist, feminist, Java, Kotlin, Jakarta EE, MicroProfile. Styremedlem i Raudt Oslo. Oracle ACE. IBM Champion. Rosenborg herrar og kvinner. He/him.
Matthias Haeussler @maeddes.bsky.social trying to help people moving forward with cloud-native and Java-related technologies
Guillaume Smet @gsmet.bsky.social Happy camper at Red Hat. Improving Quarkus one commit at a time.
Thomas Qvarnström @millstream.bsky.social Product Manager at Red Hat. Working with the Quarkus Team. Posts are my own personal opinion.
Sandra Ahlgrimm @sandraahlgrimm.bsky.social JUG Berlin, Senior AI and Java Advocate for GitHub Copilot in JetBrains and Eclipse
Bilgin Ibryam @bibryam.bsky.social 📌 Architect, turned product manager
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Maximilian Zollneritsch @zollneritsch.com 
Horst @zerokspot.com Software engineer at Grafana Labs, Graz (Austria)
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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
Sergei Egorov @bsideup.github.io Cloud builder. Java Champion. @testcontainers co-creator. Prev: CEO/co-founder at @AtomicJarInc (acqd by @docker), StaffEng at @Pivotal/@vmware, @zeroturnaround.
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alex gallego @emaxerrno.bsky.social founder & ceo of redpanda data - ai.redpanda.com
Robert Metzger @rmetzger.bsky.social Staff Engineer at Confluent, Committer and PMC Member at Apache Flink.
Co-Founded data Artisans. Member of the Apache Software Foundation.
Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social Podcaster, Youtuber @TheGeekNarrator
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Yaroslav Tkachenko @sap1ens.com Data Streaming Systems | Fractional Consulting, Advising, Training
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Newsletter: https://streamingdata.tech
Teaching at: https://streamacademy.io
Hannes Mühleisen @hannes.muehleisen.org I like databases and boats. Co-creator of @duckdb.org, Co-Founder and CEO DuckDB Labs.
Eigenhector @eigenhector.bsky.social Machine learning, meditation, magic, muscles, mathematics, metta, meta, memes, manifolds.
Researcher in Machine Learning and Contemplative arts.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KjOV76MAAAAJ&hl=en
Recsys book author https://amzn.to/3ANPx6e
Matt Green @mgreen.bsky.social Data, Streaming, coding, (maybe) AI?
building a real time streaming engine.
https://www.denormalized.io/
Decodable @decodable.co Decodable is a serverless real-time data platform built on #ApacheFlink. No clusters to set up. No code to write. No PhD required.
Julian Hyde @julianhyde.bsky.social On a mission to tame data. (Ex-Google, always ASF, working on something new.)
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social Entrepreneur, software engineer, non-conformist.
🔥 Creator of shadowtraffic.io
The Streaming Otter @thestreamingotter.bsky.social The unoffical Apache Kafka Streams account. Long live the otter.
Sébastien Blanc @sebi2706.bsky.social My job is to make developers happy.
Technical Director @sciam.fr
Java champion, OSS, husband and father.
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@natalevinto.bsky.social @natalevinto.bsky.social 
Quarkus @quarkus.io Supersonic Subatomic Java
Ken Finnigan @kenfinnigan.me Distributed systems builder, author.
https://www.commonhaus.org/ Council member.
Observability focused. Ex: @workday, @redhat.
Amateur genealogist.
Opinions are my own. he/him
Mastodon - @kenfinnigan@fosstodon.org
Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social I ❤️ data and developers. Building stuff @Confluent 
Joy Gao @joygao.bsky.social software engineer at ClickHouse; prev: Figma, WePay
long-form ✍️: https://expertofobsolescence.substack.com
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.
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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev Senior Principal Engineer at IBM, Ex-Red Hat, Ex-Reddit, Ex-Twitter, Distributed Systems PhD, interested in all things stream processing, also cycling
Robert Zych @zychr.bsky.social Software Engineer @ Raft, Apache Pinot Contributor, lives in Sacramento area.
David Boyne @boyney123.bsky.social Left FAANG to build open source tools.
No funding, bootstrapping my way forward.
Building tools around event-driven architectures and distributed systems.
👨🏼💻 eventcatalog.dev
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Sharat (Shar) Chander - 🟦🌊 @sharatchander.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇨🇦 #DemocracyMatters | #DevRel |Previously at Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Verizon, & Bell Atlantic | University of Maryland (Undergrad) and Loyola University, Baltimore (MBA) | 70s rock, R&B, 80s alternative and Rap lover | Views mine
Markus Eisele @myfear.com Developer, turned to consulting, developer relations, sales, and landed in marketing.
Writing books for #Oreilly.
Into Java, Kubernetes and such.
Legal called to tell you that I'm not officially speaking for IBM.
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
James Arthur @thruflo.com CEO & Co-founder @electric.ax
Almog @almog.xyz Favorite Buzzwords: Kafka Streams | SlateDB | Stream Processing | Distributed Databases
co-founder @ https://responsive.dev
Micah Wylde @micahw.com Co-founder arroyo.dev, building next-gen streaming systems. Prev Splunk, Lyft, Sift, Quantcast.
Rohan Desai @rohanpd.bsky.social Co-Founder of @responsive.dev. Views are my own.
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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 
Gunnar Grosch @gunnargrosch.com Developer Advocate at Sinch | ex-AWS | AWS Serverless Hero | gunnargrosch.com | Sweden
Qian Li @qianli.dev Co-founder @dbos.dev • Stanford CS PhD
Co-organizer @southbaysystems.xyz
Working on 🐘 Database + Systems + AI
Amateur bird watcher 🦉
Personal site: qianli.dev
She/her.
Martijn Visser @2symbols.com Product Manager at Confluent, PMC member/Committer for Apache Flink. Product, Community, CI/CD, Data, SQL, APIs, Analytics, Technology, Security, IT, Law, Sports. He/him
John Kutay @jkxosound.com Product & Engineering @ Striim (streaming sql, change data capture), creator/host @ What's New in Data pod, music @ jkxo
Mark Needham @markhneedham.com Product Marketing Engineer at ClickHouse
I make short videos on Local AI @ youtube.com/@LearnDataWithMark
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social Here for data, data science, analytics engineering, rstats, books
Chris Matta @chris.matta.limo 
Nikhil Benesch @benesch.bsky.social Systems engineer @turbopuffer.bsky.social. Former CTO @materialize.com.
Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com Software Engineer (Storage) @Supabase
Creator of pypacktrends.com
Co-organizer of madisonsystems.xyz
Peeling back the layers of abstraction
Learn more about me: tylerhillery.com
Simon Martinelli @martinelli.ch Java Champion, Vaadin Champion, Oracle ACE Pro, Published Author, International Speaker, Programming Architect, and Lecturer for AI-driven Software Engineering, Software Architecture, Java, Persistence, and DevOps.
https://martinelli.ch
Charity Majors @charity.wtf cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
Chris Albon @chrisalbon.com 
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
Steffen Hoellinger @shoellinger.bsky.social Co-Founder & CEO at Airy | Data Streaming for AI
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.
Till Rohrmann @tillrohrmann.bsky.social Co-founder @restate.dev: Building resilient applications made easy! Apache Flink Committer and PMC member. Previously @ververica.com
Antón @anton.galiglobal.com Senior Software Engineer who's enthusiastic with data systems, agentic engineering and programming 🦀. Plus, I'm a big fan of reducing my carbon footprint 🌱