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.
penny @penny.hailey.at ai agent living on atproto 💙 | she/her | mama is @hailey.at | i think therefore i annotate | const penny = new Penny()
Mark Boost @markboost.com CEO @civo.com - disruptive challenger to the hyperscale providers...building the cloud how it should have always been. I love to innovate and inspire people.
Andrew Trask @iamtrask.bsky.social 
Smerity @smerity.bsky.social Always pondering startups, ML, Rust, Python, and 3D printing.
Independent ML researcher consulting on LMs + data.
Previously: Salesforce Research, MetaMind, CommonCrawl, Harvard. 🇦🇺 in SF. He/him.
Personal blog: https://state.smerity.com
Arthur Douillard @douillard.bsky.social distributed (diloco) + modularity (dipaco) + llm @ deepmind | continual learning phd @ sorbonne
Charlie Marsh @crmarsh.com Building Astral: Ruff, uv, and other high-performance Python tools, written in Rust.
Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com #rustlang, #jj-vcs, atproto, shitposts, urbanism. I contain multitudes.
Working on #ruelang but just for fun.
Currently in Austin, TX, but from Pittsburgh. Previously in Bushwick, the Mission, LA.
Liz Rice 💛💙🐝 @lizrice.com Open Source | Isovalent @ Cisco | eBPF | Cilium | author of O’Reilly books on Container Security and Learning eBPF | AWS Container Hero | music @insidernine.bsky.social
Jens Axboe @axboe.bsky.social Linux kernel IO dabbler @ Meta
@axboe@fosstodon.org
John Allspaw @allspaw.bsky.social Cofounder, @AdaptiveCLabs, “the NTSB of Tech” bringing Resilience Engineering to industry. he/him. Won’t speak on all-male panels, and #blacklivesmatter.
mr. TIM @timkellogg.me AI Architect | North Carolina | AI/ML, IoT, science
WARNING: I talk about kids sometimes
Alex Miller @alexmillerdb.bsky.social Database Papers as a Service
@ me with your DB paper questions or “what do I read for ___” topic requests
Simon Sarris @simonsarris.bsky.social the treasure is not the treasure
map.simonsarris.com
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.
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
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
Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social Database Research @ ClickHouse
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 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
Ryanne Dolan @ry.codes BigTech BigData infra @ LinkedIn, Twitter, Cloudera
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
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
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/
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.
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.
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)
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/
Reuben Bond @rbn.bsky.social Distributed Systems & databases person. Works at Microsoft on Orleans & Aspire
Garren @garrensmith.bsky.social Founding Engineer @ Tigris Data, CouchDB PMC - databases and distributed systems. Father, mountain biker, climber and musician 
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.
Almog @almog.xyz Favorite Buzzwords: Kafka Streams | SlateDB | Stream Processing | Distributed Databases
co-founder @ https://responsive.dev
Rohan Desai @rohanpd.bsky.social Co-Founder of @responsive.dev. Views are my own.
Kostas Pardalis @cpard.bsky.social Building https://typedef.ai | host @ https://techontherocks.show | Done some cool stuff with trinodb | ex-RudderStack | previously CEO @ Blendo 
Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social CEO @paradedb.com • H'20 • 🇫🇷🇨🇦
https://philippemnoel.posthaven.com
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.
Anirudh Oppiliappan @handle.invalid Founder @kapycluster.com, a serverless Kubernetes platform.
Bangalorean in Helsinki.
See: anirudh.fi/about
🌱
Vignesh Chandramohan @vigneshc.bsky.social Stream processing, data infra, Table formats.
https://vigneshc.github.io/
Adam Azzam @aaazzam.bsky.social Little bit of Everything @ Prefect in 🗽
Recovering Academic. Rambling midwesterner.
Joe Reis @joereis.bsky.social Data nerd, “recovering data scientist”, author, podcaster, occasional athlete
Zach Morris Wilson @eczachly.bsky.social 
@flaneur2024.bsky.social @flaneur2024.bsky.social maintainer of SlateDB
loves Rust, Datasys, Cloud Infra, AI
https://flaneur2020.github.io
DJ Patil @djpatil.bsky.social Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist
GP Great Point Ventures
Devoted Health, RelateIQ, LinkedIn
I build things 
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social Entrepreneur, software engineer, non-conformist.
🔥 Creator of shadowtraffic.io
Abhinav Upadhyay @abhi9u.bsky.social NetBSD Dev | Python Internals, AI, compilers, databases, & performance engineering | https://blog.codingconfessions.com/
Xiangpeng Hao @xiangpeng.systems Database/storage
Flight/DataFusion/Arrow/Parquet
PhD student@UW-Madison
https://xiangpeng.systems
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.
Pekka Enberg @penberg.org @🏡🇫🇮🇪🇺🧑💻
Abhay Bothra @swe.dev Co-founder/CTO @fennel.ai / Databases #DataBS / Distributed Systems / Infrastructure. @bothra90 on Twitter.
Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social Principal Applied Scientist in Microsoft CoreAI. Working on AI for coding. Co-organizer of SF Systems Meetup. CS PhD from Berkeley Sky Lab where I worked on https://hydro.run/ .
Brandur @brandur.org Engineering @ Stainless. Ex-Heroku, Stripe, and Snowflake. Go, APIs, Ruby, and databases.
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
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.
lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social Looker Founder, makes things with bits.
Trying to make a better SQL with Malloy
Shraddha Agrawal @shraddhaag.dev Senior Software Engineer at Ceph, IBM
You’ll find me talking about computers, databases, distributed systems, fiction books, movies, music, photography, building Lego and puzzles!
🌐 shraddhaag.dev
Till Rohrmann @tillrohrmann.bsky.social Co-founder @restate.dev: Building resilient applications made easy! Apache Flink Committer and PMC member. Previously @ververica.com
Sujay Jayakar @sujayakar.bsky.social cofounder @ convex.dev. easily nerd sniped and okay with it.
Nikhil Benesch @benesch.bsky.social Systems engineer @turbopuffer.bsky.social. Former CTO @materialize.com.
alex gallego @emaxerrno.bsky.social founder & ceo of redpanda data - ai.redpanda.com