Patrick Reynolds @piki.dev Currently: software engineer at PlanetScale
Formerly: distinguished engineer at GitHub
Always: father of two living in Carrboro. Woodworking, cycling, photography. he/him.
Martin Perez @martin.arume.cloud Semi-retired til next thing. 100% certified human being. Also biker. I was once at twitter @mpermar. Then decided to check this AT protocol thingie.
Cliff Click @cliffclick.bsky.social Compiler researcher, mountain hiker, public speaking, long road trips, teaching, 20 patents, founder, father of 4.
Jean-Philippe Bempel @jpbempel.bsky.social Sr Sw Eng @Datadoghq, optimize software running on JVM. Love performance topics and mechanical sympathy supporter. Java Champion & @javamissionctrl committer
Fred Hebert @ferd.ca Principal SRE @ honeycomb.io, Tech Book Author, Resilience in Software Foundation board member, Erlang Ecosystem Foundation co-founder, Resilience Engineering fan. SRE-not-sorry.
blog: https://ferd.ca
notes: https://ferd.ca/notes/
Andrew Lamb @andrewlamb1111.bsky.social Apache {DataFusion PMC}, Database Internals
Noah Watkins @dotnwat.bsky.social Engineering at Redpanda Data | makedist.com
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
Andreas Zeller @andreaszeller.bsky.social Software researcher at https://cispa.de, working on #Fandango, #S3, #FuzzingBook, #DebuggingBook. Testing, debugging, analyzing, and protecting software for a better world. Find me at https://andreas-zeller.info/
Craig Alfieri @craigalfieri.bsky.social Autonomous Testing Sherpa & Hypervisor Hype-man 📣 | On a journey to make software/systems testing better one fault at a time.... (Comms are my own)
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev Knuck if you buck practitioner
Manuel Rigger @mrigger.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore, leading the Trustworthy Engineering of Software Technologies lab (https://nus-test.github.io/). We focus on improving data-centric systems, particularly their reliability. 
Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com Student of complex systems failures, resilience engineering, cognitive systems engineering. Will talk your ear off about @resilienceinsoftware.org
@lmstr.bsky.social @lmstr.bsky.social lemmster.de
@lemmster, @lmstr, or @lemmy elsewhere 
Justin @jaffray.bsky.social turning to the succor of modern computing machines, let us renounce all analytic tools
https://buttondown.com/jaffray justinjaffray.com
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re Senior Staff Research Engineer in the MongoDB Distributed Systems Research Group. Photographer, Gunks climber, Zen Buddhist. Blog: https://emptysqua.re
David Daly @daviddaly.bsky.social Staff Engineer in Tech
Go 'Cuse!
I read books. he/him
https://www.daviddaly.me/
PVLDB @pvldb.bsky.social The Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB)
https://vldb.org/pvldb/
RSS Feed: https://db.cs.cmu.edu/files/rss/pvldb-rss.xml
Automated by @andypavlo.bsky.social
CMU Database Group @db.cs.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon Database Research Group
https://db.cs.cmu.edu/
ClickHouse @clickhouse.com ClickHouse is the fastest open-source OLAP database ⚡
Download: http://clickhouse.com
GitHub: http://clickhou.se/GitHub
Slack: http://clickhouse.com/slack
alex gallego @emaxerrno.bsky.social founder & ceo of redpanda data - ai.redpanda.com
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.
HYTRADBOI @hytradboi.bsky.social Have you tried rubbing a database on it?
https://www.hytradboi.com/2025
Hillel @hillelwayne.com Developer educator at @antithesis.com. Formal methods, software history, chocolatiering. DMs open. *Logic for Programmers* now out! https://logicforprogrammers.com
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/
Cristina González Castellano @cgoncas.bsky.social Building and testing software at New Relic while raising a tiny human, one line of code at a time 💻🔍👶🐾🐾 #JavaDeveloper #Mom
@dgryski.bsky.social @dgryski.bsky.social 
Andrey Satarin @asatarin.bsky.social Staff SRE at Google. Distributed systems / databases / reliability / correctness. Views my own. Repost / like is not an endorsement.
http://asatarin.github.io
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
emily freeman @emilyfreeman.bsky.social Co-founder and CEO, Freeman & Forrest.
Bestselling author of DevOps for Dummies and international keynote speaker. I’ve led Community, DevRel and Product Marketing at AWS, MSFT, and startups.
I was editingemily on Twitter.
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
Andrew Atkinson @andyatkinson.com Software Engineer, Author, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails
andyatkinson.com/pgrailsbook
Pete Naylor @pete-naylor.bsky.social Distributed datastores and indexing are my areas of interest. Extensive experience with DynamoDB at AWS. Now working on the core datastore for Elasticsearch.
Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io […]
[bridged from https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Nick Canzoneri @nickcanzoneri.com Database/Search infrastructure at Datadog, ex-GitHub
https://nickcanzoneri.com
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com Technical Fellow, @honeycomb.io
American by birth, Chinese by heritage, Australian by choice
living on occupied and unceded Gadigal and Musqueam/Squamish/Tsleil-Waututh land
she/it
karpathy @karpathy.bsky.social AI @ OpenAI, Tesla, Stanford
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!
Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social AI scientist & consultant :: prev Amazon Alexa, Toshiba, Cam Uni :: voice & language tech :: powered by coffee :: photographer :: Cambridge UK
https://www.catherinebreslin.co.uk
Franck Pachot @franckpachot.bsky.social Developer Advocate at Microsoft (PostgreSQL on Azure), developer-focused expertise in databases, like 🐘 PostgreSQL, 🚀 YugabyteDB, 🍃 MongoDB, 🅾️ Oracle (Certified Master), and 🔶 AWS Data Hero
Tim McNamara @timclicks.dev Trainer and consultant on the Rust programming language. Author of Rust in Action. Team climate. Walkable neighbourhoods are nice, actually.
Signal: @timclicks.01
Piotr Sarna @sarna.dev Currently: poolside
Hacking history: Turso, libSQL, Seastar, ScyllaDB, LizardFS, some kernel stuff
Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social CEO @paradedb.com • H'20 • 🇫🇷🇨🇦
https://philippemnoel.posthaven.com
DuckDB @duckdb.org DuckDB is an analytical in-process SQL database management system. "DuckDB" and the DuckDB logo are registered trademarks of the DuckDB Foundation.
Lætitia @l-avrot.bsky.social PostgreSQL Influencer, currently working for Docker. Opinions are my own.
Shlomi Noach @shlomi-noach.bsky.social Engineer and database geek
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Felipe Mendes @felipemendes.dev I code and explain computers to people.
“Database Performance at Scale” Co-author
Technical Director at ScyllaDB
My opinions are my own
Claire Giordano ✨ @clairegiordano.bsky.social Love sailing ⛵️ in Greece, #PostgreSQL, open source, NH, POSETTE: An Event for Postgres #PosetteConf, chocolate 🐕 labs, my work @ Microsoft, the #TalkingPostgres #podcast—& taking pics with my phone. Not necessarily in that order. Opinions are my own.
Seny Kamara @senykamara.com I design encryption algorithms for a living but am a Hip Hop scholar at heart. Former CS professor at Brown & research scientist at Microsoft. I currently lead research at MongoDB. I think about how data, algorithms, power and culture intersect
Lili Cosic @lilicosic.com 👩🏻💻 Senior Database Engineer @InfluxData working on InfluxDB v3 Enterprise.
I enjoy talking about databases, observability and good food.
Previously @ HashiCorp, Red Hat.
Now in Berlin 🇩🇪 from 🇸🇮
Carlo Piovesan @carlo.piovesan.io Compiling @duckdb
PlanetScale @planetscale.com The database platform built for scale. Postgres and Vitess/MySQL.
https://planetscale.com
Discord: http://discord.gg/pDUGAAFEJx
Status: http://planetscalestatus.com
@dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com All sorts of SRE things. Breaker of all things. Source of the #botrosd hashtag. Professional finder of problems.
Author of High Performance MySQL 4th edition
Brent Ozar @brento.bsky.social I make databases go faster. I love teaching, travel, laughing, and collecting vintage sports cars. Las Vegas. He/him, pan.
Mark Brown @markjbrown.com I work on the Azure Cosmos DB team.
❤️ Distributed systems and databases.
Helping developers design for infinite scale.
Richard Bishop @richardb.bsky.social Distributed systems, databases, and the foundational primitives for better (more robust, efficient, accessible) computing.
Currently at Snowflake building managed Postgres. Formerly Crunchy Data and AWS.
Electrified Filth @ak47.io tylerneely.com
Barak Michener @barakmich.bsky.social 
authzed @authzed.com Authorization that scales
👷♂️ Creators of https://spicedb.io
💫 Inspired by Google's https://zanzibar.tech
🧡 YC W21
Read about how OpenAI securely connects enterprise knowledge with ChatGPT by using AuthZed: https://authzed.com/customers/openai
CockroachDB @cockroachdb.bsky.social A distributed SQL database designed for speed, scale, & survival.
🪳 Meet CockroachDB: https://cockroa.ch/db
🎓 Learn for free: https://cockroa.ch/u
🎧 Listen: https://cockroa.ch/cast
Jordan Lewis @largedatabank.com Sr Director of engineering @ Cockroach Labs.
Brooklyn
Check me out: https://largedatabank.com
The old site: https://twitter.com/largedatabank
Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com Cofounded @authzed.com. Exited Red Hat, CoreOS.
I build distributed systems, databases, authorization systems, containers, and businesses. NYC transplant in SF.
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/
Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social Symmathecist, in the medium of code.
Software, systems thinking, observability, process philosophy, enactivism. She/her
Charity Majors @charity.wtf cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
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
Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert @geomys.org founder / RC F'13, F2'17
Cryptogopher / Go cryptography maintainer
https://filippo.io / https://github.com/FiloSottile
https://mkcert.dev / https://age-encryption.org
https://sunlight.dev / https://filippo.io/newsletter
Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com I do computers. Married to @radkat.fitzpat.com. Three kids. Xoogler.
Go (#golang) team 2010~2020. Made LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached. Currently at @Tailscale.com making WireGuard easy.
Seattle, WA // Bainbridge
Justin Sheehy @justinsheehy.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hachyderm.io/@justinsheehy, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Jay Kreps @jaykreps.bsky.social 
Craig @craigkerstiens.com Product @crunchydata previously MSFT/Citus/Heroku. Talk a lot about Postgres and startups. Why Postgres? https://www.crunchydata.com/why-postgres
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.
eliza🌻 @elizas.website e-girl (engineering girl) • interested in the kind of software nobody writes anymore • making computers at @oxide.computer • love too cheap to meter • nulla crux, nulla corona
Pierre Zemb @pierrezemb.fr 🧑💻 Staff Engineer @clever-cloud.com
🤩 Distributed and Database Systems
🚀 Co-leader Finistdevs.org
💪 Squash player
rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io (gender)queer transsexual / they/them / eng @oxide.computer / atheist and scientific humanist / 🦀 #rustlang / #jj-vcs #1 fan / https://nexte.st / https://sunshowers.io
also on mastodon: @rain@hachyderm.io / https://hachyderm.io/@rain
Xiangpeng Hao @xiangpeng.systems Database/storage
Flight/DataFusion/Arrow/Parquet
PhD student@UW-Madison
https://xiangpeng.systems
Matt Klein @mattklein123.dev CTO @bitdrift.io. Software engineer and creator of Envoy Proxy. 
Mara Bos @mara.bsky.social Rust dev, Electronics engineer, Author, RustNL, RustWeek organizer, ADHD, Polyamorous, Lesbian, She/Her
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.
Paul Masurel (fulmicoton)🦀 @fulmicoton.bsky.social Quickwit's co-founder. Tantivy dev. Rustacean.
https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit
Carl Sverre @f0a.org Fascinated by the building blocks of great software. Extremely curious. High energy. Solving testing @antithesis.com. Built SQLSync.dev, graft.rs. Ex. SingleStore.
Patrick Walton @pcwalton.turbofishstudios.com Programming languages and graphics person. Rust compiler, Firefox, and Bevy contributor. Currently working on an unannounced project!
Paul Dix @pauldix.bsky.social Cofounder & CTO InfluxData, makers of InfluxDB, the open source time series database. Founder of NYC Machine Learning Meetup. Former Ruby on Rails developer and enthusiast (still a fan).
Glauber Costa @glaubercosta.bsky.social Former Linux Kernel, ScyllaDB, Datadog - storage, virtualization, low level stuff.
Founder/CEO at https://turso.tech
Sirupsen @sirupsen.bsky.social ceo & cofounder of turbopuffer.com. prev infra @Shopify 🇩🇰->🇨🇦
nrc @ncameron.org Rust consultant (currently working with Tailscale). Formerly: Rust core team, Rust IDEs, Rustfmt, async Rust, Distributed databases, Microsoft principal engineer, Mozilla (Rust and Firefox). PhD in PL. Aotearoa NZ
www.ncameron.org
shikhar @schmizz.net Making streams serverless @s2.dev
amos @fasterthanli.me hi, I'm amos! 🍃 they/them 🔮 "most level-headed AI user" 🫐 working on something dataflow-shaped 🦀 known for teaching rust and not much else
📚 https://fasterthanli.me
📺 https://youtube.com/@fasterthanlime
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
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.
Diptanu Choudhury @diptanu.bsky.social CEO @tensorlake.bsky.social Past - AI Infrastructure at Facebook, LinkedIN, Hashicorp, Netflix
Natalie Vais @nvais.bsky.social gp at spark capital ✨ databases, infra, dev tools
Adam Leventhal @ahl.bsky.social Podcast editor (as long as quality and urgency aren’t important)
🌎👩🚀🔫🧑🚀
Timo Reimann @timoreimann.bsky.social Systems Engineer working @ Cloudflare
Twitter: @timoreimann
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
Buffer @buffer.com The social media management platform for scheduling, publishing & analytics across every major network. Plan your content calendar in one place. This account is managed by real humans. 💙
⬇️ buffer.com/bluesky
Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social Podcaster, Youtuber @TheGeekNarrator
(https://youtube.com/@thegeeknarrator?si=yN0zWNDAScJKv_QZ) Databases, Stream processing, Distributed systems Software Engineer @Confluent
Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social Distributed and Storage Systems. Apache Cassandra Committer and PMC member. Author of Database Internals. Mountain person. http://databass.dev/
David Crawshaw @crawshaw.io ceo exe.dev, tailscale co-founder, programmer