Frank Force @frankforce.bsky.social Programmer • Game Dev • Generative Artist • Size Coder • Musician • Zen Buddhist • Wizard • Friend to Cats 🖖 linktr.ee/frankforce
Narich Violetfathom @frengible.bsky.social I contain multitudes, today I am a stoned yet odd bedeviled hero with a soothing disrespect for authority
G Wilde @stackwild.bsky.social Software, AI, Infosec, Gamedev
n8n @n8n.io Workflow automation platform combining AI with business processes. Connect anything to everything. Fair-code, self-hostable.
Rob Roy (he/him) @robertroy.bsky.social Retired Master Chief, US Navy and ITIL Expert. Avid reader and love history.
Politically I am a centrist. I believe in fiscal responsibility, a strong defense bolstered by allies, and everyone is equal before the law. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦
🚫 DMs
WallowingDad @wallowingdad.bsky.social A big ol normie. I like engineering related stuff, parenting related stuff, Destiny 2, random crafty nerd projects, what have you. Boring reply guy 🤘
Bungie ID: WallowingDad#5016
Matrix: @michael.zeagler:matrix.org
Rym Michaut @rymguerbi.bsky.social 💻 Data Scientist || 🧮 Stats Engineer || 🥑 DevRel taipy.io || 🦄 Community Growth || open-source passionate || 🧳 Travel || 📸 Photography 
Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System
https://www.rmfrt.com/
Chip Huyen @chiphuyen.bsky.social AI x storytelling
AI Engineering: https://amazon.com/dp/1098166302
Designing ML Systems: http://amazon.com/dp/1098107969
@chipro
Kyle Platt @kyleplatt.bsky.social Serial Entrepreneur and Engineer. Trying to maximize life while building cool things. 🇨🇦 Building:
🚀 https://local-leads.ai
🐉 https://getbluepilot.com
🧲 https://tactycs.io
Brett Buddin @brett.buddin.org Engineer and field recordist.
https://buddin.org
Roman @rdmytrenko.bsky.social You can’t have success without failures
Andrei ⚡ @hudovich.com Indie maker (1 exit) & software engineer, building @listingcat.com and one secret project.
📈 https://blueskymeter.com (sold)
📦 https://blueskystash.com (sold)
Tibo @tmaker.io Built Tweet Hunter, Taplio (sold $8m)
Growing revid.ai - feather.so - superx.so - outrank.so
Sharing weekly tips about growth: tmaker.io
Hadar @hadars.bsky.social I'm an ML Team Lead with a Master’s in CS, but on 🦋, I’m just a junior solopreneur sharing the journey 🚀.
Download Locator and Save Places you Love 👇🏻
locator.ltd
Jay @captainfaintastic.bsky.social some coding stuff and a little bit of non-coding stuff
Bryan Ross @bryanross.me Developer advocate, platform engineering veteran, and public speaker. Field CTO at GitLab. I help businesses gain value from technology.
Paula Kennedy @paulalkennedy.bsky.social Founder & COO @ syntasso.io building kratix.io | Ex-VMware, Pivotal, CloudCredo | Co-organiser: @kcduk.bsky.social, @devopsdays.london, @lopug.bsky.social | Pronouns: She / her
JT Perry @circlejtp.me Dad, farmer, founder, robots, and tech. FIRST robotics coach, and volunteer working for all children to have an opportunity in STEM.
Co-founder: barnanalytics.com
Signal: @circlejtp.28
🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈 @dnsmichi.dev 🦊 Principal Developer Advocate @GitLab.com
🌐 All-remote in Nuremberg
🚀 Embedded AI research
🛡️ Agentic AI modernization
🗺️ #lego #travel #drageekeksi #embedded #ai
🌈 https://dnsmichi.com/about/
sugaroverflow 🌸 @sugaroverflow.com they say I’m 5’2” with 6’2” energy ✌️🍉
✧ sr dev advocate @ gitlab 🦊
✧ chaos wrangler @ biffud.com 🤔
✧ research - multi agent workflows@newspeak house 🏛️
♡ open source
♡ intersectional feminism
♡ board games
Coté @cote.io https://newsletter.cote.io
Texas Forever!
Abby Bangser @abangser.bsky.social Building Kratix.io, hosting #CoffeeOps, part of CNCF TAG App Delivery / WG Platforms, generally learning in the OSS world
Matteo Bianchi @mbianchidev.bsky.social Angry voice of @devoidofbeauty.bsky.social 🇩🇪
The very opposite of sXe.
Socialist.
A radically open source cog in the machine, just doing the work.
Antifascist, like every good Italian (and human btw) should be 🇮🇹✊
Daniel Oh @danieloh30.bsky.social Java Champion, CNCF Ambassador & TAG DevEX Co-Chair, Microsoft MVP, Developer Advocate, Technical Marketing, Keynote Speaker, Published Author bit.ly/danielohtv
Roberth @robstr.dev Cloud Native & Platform Engineering @ Sopra Steria.
Microsoft Azure MVP & CNCF Ambassador.
Co-chair, TAG App Delivery.
#ADHD #CommunityMatters #OpenSource #MVPBuzz #CloudNativeAmbassador
Hannah Foxwell @hannahfoxwell.net Outdoorsy, creative, independent
Here to chat about Life, Beers, DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, AI, Security
Building @AIfortherestofus.live
(she/her)
Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski Principal data engineer at PayIt in KCMO. Data engineering, platform engineering, devops, bicycles, Lego, DIY, KC. Husband. Pop to 2. He/him. Opinions mine. Don't park in bike lanes.
https://linktr.ee/menzenski
Rynn M (they/them) @cyberynn.bsky.social Community, oss, dev rel, cloud native.
Disability justice. Paraclimbing. Classical tenor, bad drummer, karaoke nerd. Hellthread survivor.
Adriana Villela 🇨🇦 🇧🇷 @adrianamvillela.bsky.social 🥑DevRel | @cncf.io Ambassador | @opentelemetry.io End User SIG Maintainer | @geekingoutpod.bsky.social host | 💜 #Observability | #bouldering | #running | 🇧🇷🇨🇦
Gettin’ shit done, and keepin’ it real.
Find me: https://adrianavillela.com
Carlos Mestre del Pino @mestredelpino.com Cloud Solution Architect @ Microsoft | KCD Organizer 🇳🇱 & Public Speaker | I talk about platform engineering, AKS & occasionally homelabs | Opinions are my own | He/him
Amanda Brock @amandabrock.bsky.social CEO @OpenUK, open source stuff - Advisory, Policy, Keynote, Writer, Exec Producer State of Open Con. Slave to #kittendundee AuDHD
Hans Kristian @starefossen.bsky.social Platform maker, dream awaker. DadOps. DevEx & Open Source @ Norwegian Governement. CNCF Ambassador, GDE Cloud, Grafana Champion
When I am not tinkering with new technology, I spend my time outside exploring the mountains with my wife and kids ❤
he/him
Matteo Dartez @dartezmatteo.bsky.social Engineering/DevOps @ reverb.com. Lover of dogs, cooking, and travel. Mezzo italiano veneto, amante del rugby, andiamo treviso! Part-time CalTech/JPL professor
Gianluca @gianarb.it Developer. Sometime Software Developer
I write at gianarb.it . I help company figure out things in technology with @shippingbytes.com .
liberachat like gianarb
Currently at RockfishData. Former PacketHost,ServiceNow,InfluxData...
Raphaël Pinson @raphink.info @cilium.io Alchemist @isovalent at Cisco | CNCF Ambassador | I'm the Oops in DevOops ∞ | Family Historian 🌳 | Autism Awareness | Tweets Mine | @raphink@hachyderm.io
Betty Junod @bettyjunod.bsky.social opinions, feelings, bread
www.bettyjunod.com
jag @i-am-j.ag Staff Software Engineer @ Hungryroot (Platform engineering / Python / Django)
Co-founder @ SeekHealing
Autistic/ADHD; ENM; one of (((them)))
Asheville, NC
@cloudnativeboy.bsky.social @cloudnativeboy.bsky.social Host of youtube.com/@cloudnativefm podcast, CNCF Ambassador
Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com Product manager (the good kind, I promise).
I ❤ APIs (designing, building, managing, etc) and spent 14 years taking Apigee from a startup to part of Google Cloud.
Involved in OpenAPI, aep.dev, and other OSS. 🌉 SF
Joshua Bezaleel Abednego @joshuabezaleel.bsky.social Software Engineer on Developer Experience, Infrastructure Engineering Gojek (GoTo Financial).
Platform Engineering, Developer {Tools,Productivity,Experience}, Infrastructure, Open Source, System Engineering, Distributed System, Cloud Native.
Victor Ikeme @handle.invalid Observability | Internal Developer Platforms | CNCF
Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me I have thoughts. Lots of thoughts. They never stop thinking. Never stop thunking.
hachyderm.io/@hazelweakly
Jennifer Riggins @jkriggins.bsky.social tech journalist • developer productivity pundit • pro writer since 2003 • 8yo mom • ‘inimitable’ ‘force of nature’ ‘a little bit sweary’ ‘bubbly… thoughtful… respectful’ ‘connector of people, but not afraid to throw a pebble in the water’ ‘one I can trust’
Puja Abbassi @puja.dev Field CTO @GiantSwarm; CNCF Ambassador; CKA; recovering Data Science Academic; into Chinese Martial Arts; not updating his website puja.dev
Adrian Mace @adrian.mace.au 👨🏻💻 Technical Lead focused on Platform Engineering & Developer Experience. Opinions are my own.
Whitney Lee @whitneylee.com Doin' it and doin' it and doin' it well
https://whitneylee.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
Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. According to Field of Schemes, "tech exec and Oakland A's fan" -- but more of an Oakland Ballers fan now.
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 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 Co-Organizer of https://lu.ma/sf-distsys
Developer of https://github.com/ClusterlessHQ, https://cascading.wensel.net, and other data related projects.
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 Founder polarsignals.com 🧊 ❄️ Building parca.dev, Prometheus maintainer. Distributed systems, databases, and performance engineering. Actually born in Berlin. (he/him)
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 compute infra at LinkedIn.
ex-twitter/googlecloud/azure
dist sys enthusiast
github.com/ahmetb
Jeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev Principal engineer @ Cloudflare. I talk about tech sometimes
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.
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