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
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
David Adrian @dadrian.io Used to do TLS, still kind of do TLS. PM at Chrome Security. Founded Censys. @scwpod.bsky.social
Martha Wells @marthawells.com SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
Piotr Kijewski @piotrkijewski.bsky.social @shadowserver.bsky.social
max seddon @maxseddon.bsky.social moscow bureau chief @financial times. in soviet russia, news reports you: max.seddon@ft.com
Silverado Policy Accelerator @silverado.org A bipartisan nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing American prosperity and global competitiveness in the 21st century.
https://silverado.org
Podcast: GeopoliticsDecanted.com
the grugq @thegrugq.bsky.social 
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Distributed Denial of Secrets @ddosecrets.org DDoSecrets is a 501c3 journalist non-profit devoted to publishing and archiving leaks and other data in the public interest.
DDoSecrets.org
LibraryOfLeaks.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Denial_of_Secrets
DonorBox.org/ddosecrets
Allison Nixon @nixonnixoff.bsky.social Chief Research Officer @ Unit 221B
most reliable way to reach me is my company's outreach form on the website
my other urls:
https://infosec.exchange/@nixonnixoff
https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-nixon-81822124/
don't bother contacting me on twitter
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Benjamin Elder @bentheelder.bsky.social @kubernetes.io Steering Committee member / SIG Testing Tech Lead, sigs.k8s.io/kind creator / maintainer. Dog dad.
Free time: Hiking, Photography, Books ...
http://elder.dev/about
Lachlan Evenson @lachie.bsky.social ☁️ Cloud Native OSS @Azure | 📖 K8s Best Practices + KUAR 3e | CNCF GB | Emeritus Kubernetes Steering & 1.16 Lead
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
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
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
Shivansh Vij @shivanshvij.com CEO @loopholelabs.io
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
Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social on software infrastructure @theconsensus.dev.
theconsensus.dev
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
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)
Sirupsen @sirupsen.bsky.social ceo & cofounder of turbopuffer.com. prev infra @Shopify 🇩🇰->🇨🇦
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 
Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social Distributed and Storage Systems. Apache Cassandra Committer and PMC member. Author of Database Internals. Mountain person. http://databass.dev/
Reuben Bond @rbn.bsky.social Distributed Systems & databases person. Works at Microsoft on Orleans & Aspire
Garren @garrensmith.bsky.social Founding Engineer @ Tigris Data, CouchDB PMC - databases and distributed systems. Father, mountain biker, climber and musician 
Hans-Peter Grahsl @hpgrahsl.bsky.social Data Streaming Janitor & Open Source Builder, Ex-Decodable, Ex-Red Hat, formerly Engineer/Trainer/Consultant - proud husband, 🦁 hearted dad of 2 and ☕️ aficionado.
Almog @almog.xyz Favorite Buzzwords: Kafka Streams | SlateDB | Stream Processing | Distributed Databases
co-founder @ https://responsive.dev
Rohan Desai @rohanpd.bsky.social Co-Founder of @responsive.dev. Views are my own.
Kostas Pardalis @cpard.bsky.social Building https://typedef.ai | host @ https://techontherocks.show | Done some cool stuff with trinodb | ex-RudderStack | previously CEO @ Blendo 
Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social CEO @paradedb.com • H'20 • 🇫🇷🇨🇦
https://philippemnoel.posthaven.com
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.
Anirudh Oppiliappan @handle.invalid Founder @kapycluster.com, a serverless Kubernetes platform.
Bangalorean in Helsinki.
See: anirudh.fi/about
🌱
Vignesh Chandramohan @vigneshc.bsky.social Stream processing, data infra, Table formats.
https://vigneshc.github.io/
Adam Azzam @aaazzam.bsky.social Little bit of Everything @ Prefect in 🗽
Recovering Academic. Rambling midwesterner.
Joe Reis @joereis.bsky.social Data nerd, “recovering data scientist”, author, podcaster, occasional athlete
@flaneur2024.bsky.social @flaneur2024.bsky.social maintainer of SlateDB
loves Rust, Datasys, Cloud Infra, AI
https://flaneur2020.github.io
DJ Patil @djpatil.bsky.social Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist
GP Great Point Ventures
Devoted Health, RelateIQ, LinkedIn
I build things 
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social Entrepreneur, software engineer, non-conformist.
🔥 Creator of shadowtraffic.io
Abhinav Upadhyay @abhi9u.bsky.social NetBSD Dev | Python Internals, AI, compilers, databases, & performance engineering | https://blog.codingconfessions.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.
Pekka Enberg @penberg.org @🏡🇫🇮🇪🇺🧑💻
Abhay Bothra @swe.dev Co-founder/CTO @fennel.ai / Databases #DataBS / Distributed Systems / Infrastructure. @bothra90 on Twitter.
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/ .
Brandur @brandur.org Engineering @ Stainless. Ex-Heroku, Stripe, and Snowflake. Go, APIs, Ruby, and databases.
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
Robert Metzger @rmetzger.bsky.social Staff Engineer at Confluent, Committer and PMC Member at Apache Flink.
Co-Founded data Artisans. Member of the Apache Software Foundation.
lloyd tabb @lloydtabb.bsky.social Looker Founder, makes things with bits.
Trying to make a better SQL with Malloy
Till Rohrmann @tillrohrmann.bsky.social Co-founder @restate.dev: Building resilient applications made easy! Apache Flink Committer and PMC member. Previously @ververica.com
Sujay Jayakar @sujayakar.bsky.social cofounder @ convex.dev. easily nerd sniped and okay with it.
Nikhil Benesch @benesch.bsky.social Systems engineer @turbopuffer.bsky.social. Former CTO @materialize.com.
alex gallego @emaxerrno.bsky.social founder & ceo of redpanda data - ai.redpanda.com
Lari Hotari @lhotari.bsky.social OSS contributor https://github.com/lhotari, Distributed Systems Engineer. Principal Engineer at StreamNative. Apache Pulsar PMC member. Apache Software Foundation member. 🇫🇮🇨🇦🇪🇪🇺🇦
Stephan Ewen @stephanewen.bsky.social Building distributed systems and data infra.
Previously co-creator of Apache Flink (https://flink.apache.org/),
now building Restate (https://restate.dev/) to make distributed apps more easily resilient and scalable.
Jon Bringhurst @jon.bringhurst.org 
Yevgeniy Brikman @brikis98.bsky.social Co-founder: https://gruntwork.io. Author: https://fundamentals-of-devops.com, https://terraformupandrunning.com, https://hello-startup.net. Previously: LNKD, TRIP.
schrockn @schrockn.bsky.social 
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