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.
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Joseph Redmon @pjreddie.bsky.social 
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Michael Gasch @embano1.mgasch.com Product Manager AWS. Golang. Distributed Systems.
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Russ Cox @swtch.com 
Duffie Cooley @mauilion.dev Field CTO Isovalent // Proud CNCF Ambassador // I am committed to seeing others succeed.
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Jepsen @jepsen.mastodon.jepsen.io.ap.brid.gy Breaking distributed systems, one fault at a time.
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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com Spring Developer Advocate
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Murat (Distributolog) @muratdemirbas.bsky.social Distributed systems,Database systems, Lightweight formal methods, TLA+
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Michael Hausenblas @mhausenblas.info Principal Software Engineer, Genesys | 塞翁失马
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Marc Brooker @marcbrooker.bsky.social Serverless, databases, and serverless databases at AWS. Views my own.
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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social CTO of Microsoft Azure, author of novels Rogue Code, Zero Day and Trojan Horse, Windows Internals, Sysinternals tools. Opinions are my own.
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Tim Hockin @thock.in I like writing software, even if I don't get to do it much anymore. Kubernetes. Star Wars nerd, Expanse fan, dad, dork. 
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 · 🚴
Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social Database Research @ ClickHouse
Associate Prof. of Databases @ Carnegie Mellon.
David Crawshaw @crawshaw.io ceo exe.dev, tailscale co-founder, programmer
Gwen Shapira @gwenshap.bsky.social Founder of SaaS Developer Community and Nile Database. 
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev Knuck if you buck practitioner
Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social Professor at FEUP University of Porto and researcher at INESC TEC. Distributed Systems and Data. Co-creator of CRDTs. Founder eurotux.com. Still searching for unknown unknowns. (🦋 July 2023)
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Brian Grant @bgrant0607.bsky.social CTO/cofounder of ConfigHub. Original lead architect of Kubernetes and creator of its declarative configuration model.
Mike @mfridman.bsky.social technology, landmarks, left joins and Go vibes.
Protocol Buffers for the rest of us @buf.build
James Munnelly @munnerz.bsky.social Kubernetes @ Apple | cert-manager maintainer | previously @ Jetstack
Stefan Schimanski @sttts.social API Machinery @ ex-Upbound, ex-Redhat, Kubernetes, OpenSource, logician, restless, hungry & foolish, þetta reddast, http://github.com/sttts – Opinions&tweets are my own, http://mastodon.social/@sttts
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Dan Farrelly - Inngest @danfarrelly.com CTO + Co-founder @inngest.com: The queuing and orchestration platform for modern software teams.
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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/ .
Reuben Bond @rbn.bsky.social Distributed Systems & databases person. Works at Microsoft on Orleans & Aspire
Mat Ryer @matryer.bsky.social Director Engineering @ Grafana Labs. Safe and actually useful AI. Music. Podcaster, Conference emcee, Author. Games.
Stefan Prodan @stefanprodan.com OSS maintainer of CNCF projects Flux, Flagger and the GitOps Toolkit
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Carlos Santana @santana.dev AWS EKS Specialist SA | @cncf.io Ambassador | CNCF Kubernetes Book Club organizer, GitOps, Argo SIG-scalability lead, Kubernetes, CNOE, Platform Engineering, Fleet Management, GenAI, AI, NVIDIA Jetson
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Eddie Zaneski @eddiezane.bsky.social OSS @ Defense Unicorns | SIG CLI @kubernetes.dev
Alex Xu @bytebytego.bsky.social Follow me for system design & book-writing tips. | Author of the bestselling book series: ‘System Design Interview’ | Join 350,000+ Readers: blog.bytebytego.com
Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com AWS Serverless Hero & Principal Engineer @ PostNL
Pires @pires.dev Trouble maker, insolent and a pain in the neck. Into distributed-systems. Mostly-retired DJ. Triathlete-wannabe. 🇵🇹
ahmet alp balkan @ahmet.dev working on inference infra @ baseten.co
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Peter Evans @peterevans.bsky.social Software engineer @github.com
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Fernando Meyer @fernandomeyer.com LabHacker platform engineer and musician;
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Taichi Nakashima @deeeeet.bsky.social https://deeeet.com/
Till Rohrmann @tillrohrmann.bsky.social Co-founder @restate.dev: Building resilient applications made easy! Apache Flink Committer and PMC member. Previously @ververica.com
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Nate Finch @natefinch.bsky.social Gopher at GitHub working on Copilot. Author of Mage. Dungeon Master and Magic player. Used to be NateTheFinch on the Bird Site that shall not be named.
Uwe Friedrichsen @ufried.bsky.social Uwe Friedrichsen. Longtime traveler in the world of IT. Dot Connector. Keeper of timeless wisdom. Translator between floors. System design. Resilience. Sustainability. Tries to make (not only) IT a (bit) better place.
Brandur @brandur.org Engineering @ Stainless. Ex-Heroku, Stripe, and Snowflake. Go, APIs, Ruby, and databases.
Jason Hall @imjasonh.com World's Okayest Dad, pizza enthusiast, single-hyphenate, container nerd at Chainguard
Udi Dahan @udidahan.com Posts about Software Development, Design, and Architecture.
Founder and CEO of NServiceBus. He/Him.
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Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social Podcaster, Youtuber @TheGeekNarrator
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Alex Miller @alexmillerdb.bsky.social Database Papers as a Service
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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
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Dominik Tornow @dominiktornow.bsky.social Founder Resonate HQ | Distributed Async Await | Thinking in Distributed Systems | https://dtornow.substack.com
Xe @xeiaso.net Some nerd that uses computers | Blogger with 500-ish articles at https://xeiaso.net | @theprincessxena on the bird website | CEO @techaro.lol | Minors DNI
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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @ Full Indie Vancouver @writnelson.bsky.social Running @StrangeScaffold.bsky.social Wrote for MtG, Borderlands 4, I Am Your Beast & more. Lead VA in Hellraiser: Revival. BAFTA nom. Christian! He/Him. Repped by CAA.
Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social Retired Educator / Learning Scientist
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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com Maker of stuff that makes you laugh.
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Evan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social 🇭🇹 He/him. Senior Writer, @brasslionent on Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver. Video games. Comic books. Blackness. Past: @Kotaku, @io9, #RiseOfTheBlackPanther, @Marvel #MilesMoralesPS5. Next: Batman/Static: Beyond from @DCComics EvanNarcisse.com
Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social 🧬 Co-Founder, Lore + Wiki Manager @ dnacreative.ca
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Deejay Knight | LIQUID @deejayknight.bsky.social Live Talent, Voice Actor, USAF Vet | TGA Future Class 2021 | Twitch & ExtraLife Ambassador | He/Him | Biz: dj @ deejayknight . tv
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Jordan Minor @jordanwminor.bsky.social Author of VIDEO GAME OF THE YEAR
Principal Apps and Games Writer at PCMag
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social Raze & Rebuild Studio Founder | BAFTA US Member | Ex-Monolith Prod. | Twitch Partner | LogitechG Partner | Rivals of Waterdeep & Black Dice Society Alum |TakeThis Board Chair| She/They
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | 2 Weeks | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
Janet Garcia @gameonysus.bsky.social Critic, Video Game Consultant, Host ✨ Words at @PenToPixels.com. Convos at @minnmax.com, @pewpewbang.bsky.social, @remapradio.bsky.social, @TheIndieCouncil.com, & @GamesAndNotGames.com. Streams on Twitch.tv/Gameonysus.
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Salman Shurie (recovering HP mode 😵💫) @salmanshh.bsky.social Somali • (he/him) • Game Designer / Programmer • Prev @ Hibernian Workshop & Madbox & ??? • Currently @ GUN NOSE & Gesinimo Games (solo-dev) • sometimes award-winning.
Zaire @zeestermeester.bsky.social Ope. Peabody and BAFTA awarding winning writer. Currently a Senior Writer @ Compulsion Games | Subnautica | Naughty Dog |Yet another social media platform.
Graham Reid 🌴 @grahamoflegend.com 🇯🇲 Your friendly neighborhood Jamaican game dev
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Allie B. - write the infinite @madpierrot.design 💫 Allie B. 💫 Wrestling, ttrpgs, cats. Barfs forth romantica? Counts as a small writing team, cannot be stopped. 💫 Scriptwriter @ RS | SS: KtJL, LEGO Batman LotDK, [REDACTED] 💫 Opinions are my own. 💫 parapoly.gay 💫 allie@madpierrot.design 💫 she/they. 💫
Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social Co-Founder @cstoneintstudio
Past: Art Director #Psychonauts2
Advisor: @gameheadsoakland
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Ex-Rockstar Games/MLB
25+ years in games
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Danielle Lalonders @dlalonders.bsky.social creative director, educator, & food blogger (she/they) | made @validategame.com
Dors @dorseus.bsky.social Community Manager || Gundam enthusiast 🤖 || Gamer 🎮 || Master of the blade 🗡️ || Nerd 🤓 [he/they]
DAERHYK @daerhyk.blacksky.app Transmuting cosmic dust into personal preferences | Exploring game development and cultural hybridity | 少し日本語OK
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Daryl Nelson @ragespy.bsky.social He/Him. Technical Producer, Platform Services - League Studio @ Riot. Previously Blizzard, World's Edge, Bungie, Pokemon, 31st Union, Wizards of the Coast and SIE. Thoughts are my own
Shana T Bryant @mushroomqueendom.bsky.social executive producer, games. mooostly indie VR these days. also comics/ books. ex-Capcom/Xbox/Midway. game nerd. 👾 art nerd. 🎨 creator: @terribleallies
Alex Earle @thealexurl.bsky.social 👾 Producer at @radicalforge.bsky.social
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#BlackLivesMatter
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Leah ✨ @myleah.bsky.social Myleah aka Leah @flyhinata, game dev, cosplayer, event organizer & sparkly self-elected fandom class president 💌 making fangirling & fandom feel like home!! founder of @lumikhacosplay.com🇵🇭
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Calamity @heycalamityyy.bsky.social Performance, Production, Narrative Design, & Dramaturgy✨ TTRPG, Theatre, & Video Games ✨ Founder & Creative Producer @taletellhearts.bsky.social✨ ♾️🥄🌈
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Sean H. @sjhdoesgames.blacksky.app He/him. Game designer, writer, streamer, toku fiend, fighting game enthusiast. Co-founder and worker-owner at @munity.games | Links: http://sjhdoesgames.carrd.co | Looking for work. Inquiries: sn.heron@gmail.com
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