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Ex-ThoughtWorks
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James Ward @jamesward.com Just another nerd with a podcast: happypathprogramming.com
And a book:
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SDD (Software Design & Development) Conference @sddconf.bsky.social Software Design & Development conferences take place in London in May and November, & feature in-depth sessions on key topics delivered by world-class speakers.
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Valentina Servile @valentinaservile.bsky.social O'Reilly Author | Lead Software Engineer @Thoughtworks | Software Craftsperson
Adaptive Organizations meet Architecture @aomaconf.bsky.social The conference where software architecture meets the reality of modern organizations.
Simon Brown @simonbrown.je Creator of the C4 model and Structurizr | Author | Speaker | Software architecture and diagramming workshops worldwide
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Venkat Subramaniam @venkats.bsky.social Programmer, author, speaker, founder Agile Developer, Inc., co-founder of @dev2next Conference, professor @CSatUH
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
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Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
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Team Topologies @teamtopologies.com High-impact team-of-teams organizations for IT and knowledge work.
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Conflux @confluxhq.com Thriving organizations, delivering at speed™️
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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com IT architect and socio-technical practitioner at Capra with a ghoulish sense of post-punk and a geeky interest in science and systems thinking. He/him.
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#SocioTechnical
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Andrew Harmel-Law @andrewhl.bsky.social They/them. Technical Principal at Thoughtworks UK. All opinions are my own (at least I sourced them myself) and don't reflect those of my employer.
Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com CPTO at A2B. Formally CTO Labs, @deno.land, Thoughtworks, SitePen, NOW and Sky.
Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au #PhD researcher at #ANU Cybernetics, investigating bias in #speech and #voice #tech, with a focus on #data & #ML. Leads R&D at @mozdatacollective.bsky.social
Ex NVIDIA, Mycroft AI, @linuxaustralia.bsky.social, Deakin Uni.
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Dr Linda McIver @lindamciver.adsei.org Author of Raising Heretics: Teaching Kids to Change the world. Founder adsei.org
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maia sauren @sauramaia.bsky.social 
Aaron Wigley @wigsofoz.bsky.social Online Security Advocate, Knowledge Handler, Parent, Woodworker, Maker of Meals and Sundry Other Things.
Erin Kyan @erinkyan.bsky.social Creative type. Queer & trans. 40s. Leather man of 20+ years. Wheelchair user. 🦼✨
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If we're mutuals elsewhere, make sure to @ me when you follow so I know who you are!
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SCA: #Lochac, Ynys Fawr, Lightwood.
AICSA: SCUNA, SUMS.
Politics: lefty ratbag.
He/him.
Chat ignored due to stupid Aust law.
Dr J. Rosenbaum @jrosenbaum.com.au Artist and researcher working with AI perceptions of gender. PhD, nerd, muso, they/them pronouns 🏳️⚧️🇦🇺
links page at minxdragon.com
Leif Magnusson @lordhank.bsky.social Dirty lefty, queer, and polyamorous. Reenactor, Scout Fellowship, uneducated nerd.
Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social Co-author/co-editor of ActivityPub (what connects together the fediverse, including Mastodon, etc). Executive Director of the Spritely Institute. Lisp/scheme enthusiast, chaos transfem, sketcher of tiny creature drawings.
https://dustycloud.org
Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social Engineering leadership (VP Engineering), startups, tech addict, Evertonian, powerlifter, cats. Co-founder & CTO of Sailhouse. Berkshire 🇬🇧.
Abby Bangser @abangser.bsky.social Building Kratix.io, hosting #CoffeeOps, part of CNCF TAG App Delivery / WG Platforms, generally learning in the OSS world
MoTaverse @ministryoftesting.com The future is changing right before our eyes. The MoTaverse is here to guide you and your team along the way.
We’re expanding the MoTaverse to help you navigate the challenges of building better software.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor @soest.hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
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Ken Liu @kennethaliu.bsky.social Sr. Director of Engineering at Cockroach Labs.
_duncanhall @duncanhall.net Computers. Trail Running. Dachshunds. Gardening
Jon Topper @topper.me.uk Founder, @scalefactory.com (The AWS SaaS Experts)
AWS Ambassador.
Food enthusiast. Polyam.
Based in Yorkshire, UK
he/him
Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Chocoholic. Baseball. Cats. Technology. Not always in that order.
She/her. Let's be kind to one another.
Gaze upon my LinkedIn profile and admire: https://www.linkedin.com/in/estherschindler/
rands @rands.bsky.social Writer of leadership things. Keynote enthusiast. I don’t tweet about my current gig. https://randsinrepose.com
Joshua Brindle (he/him) @brindle.bsky.social Infosec, SELinux guy, now cloud security
Black Lives Matter
Trans Rights are Human Rights
I speak for no one at all.
Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca Disaster prevention chihuahua. Reliability at PagerDuty. Living on unceded land in Punamue'katikt, Mi'kma'ki (Dartmouth, NS). May all beings be free from suffering. He/him.
also hachyderm.io/@mendel.
formerly @mendel on twitter.
www.lafferty.ca
Dr. Jessica Cavalier @jcavalierwrites.bsky.social Instructional Coach, reading specialist, continuous learner
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