Sam Barker @samturtelbarker.bsky.social Principal software engineer at Red Hat (all opinions are mine, not theirs) working in the Kafka ecosystem: Mostly throwing bytes around with JVM’s as fast as possible.
Part of the team behind Kroxylicious.io
Grace (is AFK) @gracegrimwood.bsky.social Finally got around to making a profile here, don’t expect me to post much because I probably won’t. Any opinions mine, not my employer’s.
Konstantinos Metaxas @kmetaxas-datatroll.bsky.social Data boyscout. Helping data cross the street 
Stefano Cordio @scordio.github.io Software Engineer @ EPAM Systems
Maintainer of @assertj.github.io
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.
Commonhaus Foundation @commonhaus.org The Commonhaus Foundation is dedicated to supporting the growth and stability of open-source projects through collaboration and innovation. https://commonhaus.org
Conduktor @conduktor.bsky.social Advanced Data Management built on Kafka for modern organizations — Join our community https://conduktor.io/slack
David Jacot @dajac.bsky.social Apache Kafka PMC; Software Engineer @ Confluent.
Elad Leev @leevs.dev Staff Eng | Stream all the things | @confluentinc Community Catalyst 🦸| #DistributedSystems #DataStreams #Databases #Scalability #kafka #flink #golang
Jakub Scholz @scholzj.bsky.social AVFC, Messaging, Strimzi, Kafka, AMQP, Kubernetes, AnCap Libertarian ... all tweets are my own ...
Ludovic Dehon @tchiotludo.bsky.social 🔹CTO, Co-Founder @ kestra.io
🔹Founder @ akhq.io
Stéphane Derosiaux @sderosiaux.bsky.social co-founder conduktor.io. Random blurbs about Kafka, streaming, AI. Living in Brooklyn. Very French.
Neil Buesing @nbuesing.bsky.social Kafka architect & developer, Java developer
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 
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
David Ingham @dingham.bsky.social Senior Engineering Director at Red Hat. I look after APIs, Events & Integration.
Aleksey Shipilëv @shipilev.bsky.social In love-hate relationship with machines. Currently: OpenJDK, AWS. "Trust me, it's really me" backlink: https://shipilev.net/#social
Amine @aminech.bsky.social #husban #father 👨👩👦👦 #dev #devops 👨💻#cloud ☁️ #aws #java #agile #geek 🚀 @nexaby
@aminechaghal@piaille.fr
jeqo @jeqo.dev father, peruvian, software engineer at aiven.io
I like clouds, trees, and football (the real ones)
@jeqo89.bsky.social for pics
@kbwall.bsky.social @kbwall.bsky.social 
@stanislavkozlovski.bsky.social @stanislavkozlovski.bsky.social 
Martin Schneppenheim @weeco.bsky.social Software Engineer at Redpanda Data. I appreciate good DevEx
Apache Kafka News @apache-kafka-news.bsky.social Regular news about #ApacheKafka or any Kafka API compatible implementation including the direct ecosystem. We are not affiliated with the Apache Software Foundation.
Travis Campbell @hcoyote.bsky.social Three raccoons in a big data trenchcoat. | "I help people use data."
ex(AMD|Indeed|Cloudera|Redpanda)
“The Don Rickles of Big Data” but data/AI is my current jam.
Somewhere in the mountains of Colorado
Signal: hcoyote.83
Viktor Gamov @gamussa.dev Principal Developer Advocate at @confluent.io, ☕️Java Champion, Co-author Kafka in Action, Flink aficionado
alex gallego @emaxerrno.bsky.social founder & ceo of redpanda data - ai.redpanda.com
Mihai Todor @mihaitodor.bsky.social Software Engineer interested in computational biology / *omics 🧬. Cambridge, UK. He / Him.
Karl-Johan Nilsson @kjnilsson.bsky.social Works on RabbitMQ (Pivotal/VMware/Broadcom). Consensus, data storage.
Oh and electronic music.
Paul Dudley @paulfdudley.bsky.social Co-founder @ streamkap.com 
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social Entrepreneur, software engineer, non-conformist.
🔥 Creator of shadowtraffic.io
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 🌱
Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social CEO @ feldera.com, the incremental compute engine for AI, ML and data teams.
Formerly a systems researcher in distributed systems, databases, cloud, OS, PL, and networking. Sci-fi and gaming nerd.
lalith.in/research
The Streaming Otter @thestreamingotter.bsky.social The unoffical Apache Kafka Streams account. Long live the otter.
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
Nicolai Parlog @nipafx.dev Java enthusiast with a passion for learning and sharing. Developer Advocate at Oracle but views are my own.
Randy Au @randyau.com Hobby consultant, 💎🪚🎮🖥️🎙️🎹🎧👨🍳📷🪛➕
Quant UX Researcher
Writes a data newsletter: https://www.counting-stuff.com/
https://linktr.ee/randy_au
Languages: EN/JP/CN
Victoriano Izquierdo @victoriano.bsky.social Graphext co-founder.
Data Stuff 📊 & Product 📦
graphext.com - @graphext.bsky.social
victoriano.me
twitter.com/victorianoi
Abe Gong @abegong.com geek dad with a clipboard
founder @ Katabase and Great Expectations
operating advisor @ Bessemer VP
data, ai, startups, dev tools, systems thinking
storytelling, community, creativity
blog.abegong.com
Alan Au @alanau.bsky.social Trickster disciple. 🦊 Game developer. 🎲️✂ Emeritus data generalist. 📊 Delightfully imperfect. ☁️ Not that kind of doctor. 🎓 [E] Itsatrap 🎮 He/Him
Benjamin Garvey @bengarvey.com CTO @ Common Paper / #phillydataviz / Collingswood / Philly / Twin Peaks obsessor / he / him
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social Here for data, data science, analytics engineering, rstats, books
Otis Anderson @oldjacket.bsky.social Californian in New Hampshire. Very much a dad. Several seemingly unrelated topics! Data, analytics, SF Giants baseball, health care, econ. Occasional political outbursts. Sorry.
Greg Schivley @gschivley.bsky.social Energy systems data, code, hiking, bikes, and more. Building stuff in the ZERO Lab at Princeton.
Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social Author of SQL for Data Scientists (Wiley), Senior Director of Data Science at HelioCampus, creator of Becoming a Data Scientist podcast
She/her
https://sqlfordatascientists.com
Q McCallum @qethanm.bsky.social NEW BOOK: Twin Wolves: Balancing risk and reward to make the most of AI
https://twinwolvesai.com/
research: (ML+gen)AI, risk, complexity, finance history
work: https://WorkWithQ.com
newsletter: https://complex-machinery.com
(some posts in 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇷🇺)
Evgeny Ivanov @e10v.me 
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/
Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social Anzelovich on 🐦🦣. Interests: Data Science/Engineering, Python, YIMBY, bikes, cats. Living in SATX.
Tim @tim.hochberg.io 
Maria Khalusova @mariak.bsky.social Always growing, she/her, RAG builder, LLM whisperer, tech generalist
James Felix Black @tft.io A large person, in Canada. Father to two, smaller persons. Wife guy. Dual citizen, a modicum of discipline.
Proud liberal. Hobbesian. Unix apostate, Classic Mac OS revanchist, tilter at path-dependent windmills. Emacsist.
David Asboth @davidasboth.com Data generalist, educator, author of The Well-Grounded Data Analyst (Manning, 2025). Co-host of the Half Stack Data Science podcast.
Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me Data engineer in practice, data librarian at heart.
Knitter, dog momma, board gamer, and consumer of sci-fi/fantasy of all mediums.
Civic tech, data for good, peace/conflict data, and philosophizing thru data modeling
https://jennajordan.me
Nicolò Giso @nicologiso.com Making memes, working with data and writing code!
📊🐍 Data Engineer/Scientist
Blog at nicologiso.com
Projects: whilemodeltrains.com & @italianartbot.bsky.social
🇮🇹🍝🍕
Amanda Alvarez @gecky.me tacos 🌮
data 📊
bees 🐝
mountains 🏔️🏕️🧗🏽♀️
fiber arts 🪡🧵🧶
baking 🧁🍰🍪🥐🍞
helping my kids collect hobbies 📷⚾️💃🏽🎶🤸🏽♀️🪴🎮
trying to keep it all together 🙃🍷
she/her/ella
em-dashes are my own
Brandon Rohrer @brandonrohrer.com Robotics and Reinforcement Learning tinkerer.
brandonrohrer.org
Wrangler of algorithms.
Eater of bread. Sipper of whisky.
Reports to a Shih Tzu.
DJ Pardis @djpardis.com 🆕👩🏻🚀 new to the atmosphere
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Sean J Taylor @seanjtaylor.com Data Science, Causal Inference, Economics, Statistics and Machine Learning
Two joys in life:
[1] Learning something interesting about the world
[2] Telling people about it
Model Measurement @OpenAI
Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social Into creative ML/AI, NLP, data science and digital humanities, narrative, infovis, games, sf & f. Consultant, ds in Residence at Google Arts & Culture. (Lyon, FR) Newsletter arnicas.substack.com.
The Fresh Prince of Donair @erisianrite.com Tech shitposts
Boston // Athens
Coder, writer, weightlifter, metal dive bar enthusiast
Jacob Matson @matsonj.com excel lover & data enthusiast.
writing at dataduel.co
working at motherduck.com
Kara Woo @karawoo.com software engineer | #rstats | PDX | she/her
Hilary Parker @hspter.bsky.social Data Science advising / consulting. Formerly startup CTO, Data Science Biden 2020, Stitch Fix, Etsy. PhD JHU Biostar. Co-host Not So Standard Deviations podcast. 🥳😴🧘🐈⬛
Caitlin Hudon @beeonaposy.bsky.social Data + product + books + parenting. DS @ Figma; blogging @ caitlinhudon.com
🐥pdrm🐣 @pedramnavid.com chief dashboard officer at dagster, professional birdwatcher, certified vibes analyst
Seth Rosen @sethrosen.me Trying to remember how to post about data and dad jokes
Meg Risdal @meg.dev Product @ Kaggle / Google. Data, language, film, weirdness. Minnesotan in Toronto. Learning Cantonese. 我學緊廣東話. It's my first day.
https://linktr.ee/megrisdal
Katie Bauer @imightbemary.bsky.social bar chart enjoyer wrongbutuseful.substack.com
Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad Arch Data (@arch.dev) Founder/CEO
Meltano maintainer 🐉
ex-Data @ GitLab, Concert Genetics
PhD @ Vanderbilt
Paid Data Influence / Actor aka "The Peter Drucker of Data Shitposts"
Husband and Dad 👦👦👧
Ben Labaschin @econoben.dev Machine learning, economics, Chicago -> San Diego
Principal MLE, Workhelix
Mark Roddy @launchit.ai Fractional VP of Engineering
Helping AI and Data Startups at launchit.ai
Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social I help @posit.co deliver the best R and Python data science solutions to the public sector in the US and elsewhere. Fan of cats coffee whiskey tea photography philosophy Atlanta - personal account. https://18chains.com/
Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com staff data scientist, autism dad, husband, former data science manager
pronouns: he/him
website: https://mpopov.com
disclaimer: views and posts are my own
Laura Ellis @littlemissdata.bsky.social Website: littlemissdata.com
Data, tech & memes. Data @Rapid7, ex-#IBM. #Mom, Canadian turned Texan, Blogger, Co-organizer of #DataMishapsNight. Views my own.
Sam Bail @spbail.bsky.social NYC via 🇩🇪 and 🇬🇧. Data stuff. Non-alc pop-up bar founder. www.thirdplacebar.nyc
Squirrel_loot @squirrelloot.bsky.social Board games, cards, and dnd for fun. Data stuff for work. Go Blue
Sean Law @seanlaw.bsky.social 👋 Principal Data Scientist, R&D at Schwab. 🐍 PyData Ann Arbor co-organizer. 🔥Creator of the STUMPY Python package for modern time series analysis:
👉 https://stumpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com Yes it's me from twitter and @bigbookofr.com!
#dataBS #RStats 
Alan Jackson @akjackson.bsky.social Retired geophysicist, pro bono data science, writer of letters to the editor, troublemaker. https://www.ajackson.org/Blog/
Chris Chapman @cchapman.bsky.social UX researcher, psychologist. Author "Quantitative User Experience Research" (w/Rodden), "R | Python for Marketing Research and Analytics" (w/Feit & Schwarz). Previously 24 yrs @ Google, Amazon, Microsoft. Personal account.
Blog at https://quantuxblog.com
ryan scharf @ryanscharf.com maker, rstats, serial hobbyist, tampa bay rowdies & sun, professional data person, amateur birding person
JD Long @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com CTO at a specialty insurance company. Perpetual cocktail party host, open source fan, econometrician, agricultural economist, and OReilly Author.
Yuan Tang @terrytangyuan.xyz Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat AI | Open Source Leader at KServe, Argo, Kubeflow, Kubernetes, CNCF | Maintainer of XGBoost, TensorFlow | Keynote Speaker | Author | Technical Advisor
More info: http://terrytangyuan.xyz
We are hiring!
Jesse Mostipak @kierisi.bsky.social never was a cornflake girl
Elise Hunley (she/her) @eggsitential42.bsky.social Cross-functional product manager. Likely to be found over caffeinated at a local farmers market or reading at home with the dog. Attempting to suck less at writing and photography.
I have a newsletter!
https://eliseisoverthinkingit.beehiiv.com
Data Bear 🏳️🌈 @dataandpolitics.net Data and Politics.
Engineer, then academic, now engineer again.
Daytime is AI/ML research.
I care a lot about the open Internet and security. Wikipedia administrator.
Very San Francisco with an ATLien heart.
A widow who misses their husband. 🏳️🌈
JD @jd503.bsky.social Product manager in the streets, really bad at folding my sheets.
He/him
Ted Laderas @tladeras.bsky.social Director of Training/Community at the Data Science Lab at Fred Hutch. Former OHSU, DNAnexus. Posit Data Science Mentor (when I have the time) #bioinformatics, #datascience, #teaching, and #ambientmusic. https://laderast.github.io
Michael Mullarkey @mcmullarkey.bsky.social Clinical psych PhD | ML Engineer in sports
Subscribe to my newsletter on data, learning, and building: https://buttondown.com/datadash
Opinions are my own and don't reflect the opinions of my employer
Kyle @kylestratis.com 📊 Data, AI/ML, and Cloud consultant @ Stratis Data Labs
🚉 VPEng @ Sequel Institute
🤓 Startup advisor
✒️ Writing about MCP
🐍 Python
☁️ AWS
🧙♂️ Elixir
🐷Ham radio
🇺🇸↔🇬🇷 [Boston // Athens]
Mostly tech things here
https://sifa.id/p/kylestratis.com
Kirsten Lum @machsci.bsky.social 🌲🌲 Applied ML/AI, data science, MLOps | Wife of 1, mom of 2 | Co-Founder and CTO of http://storytellers.ai
python 🐍 AI 🤖 cloud ☁️ data 📊
I also talk about Jesus here: @itskirstenlum.bsky.social
Al Brown 🐢 @alasdairb.com I do things with databases and play with dogs.
https://alasdairb.com
mr. TIM @timkellogg.me AI Architect | North Carolina | AI/ML, IoT, science
WARNING: I talk about kids sometimes
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
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.