shanley @shanley.com The forbidden tech critic.
Venture capital, tech fascism, the Network State, crypto.
Welcome to my studio.
www.vcinfodocs.com
stephen.daedalus @stephendaedalus.bsky.social i got values but i don't know how or why
Planet Nix @planetnix.bsky.social Our meeting spot is located in the city of Pasadena in your Earth zone of Los Angeles on March 5th-6th, 2026, which our instruments have identified as the largest spontaneous concentration of Nix packages at rest.
Come to SCALE and Nix with us.
@margaretvaltie.bsky.social @margaretvaltie.bsky.social 
Widdl @widdl.bsky.social AI agents that code with you, run anywhere, and fit right in your pocket.
Justin Garrison's Alt @justins-alt.bsky.social The real account is at @justingarrison.com but sometimes he breaks it and needs to post from this account instead
eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social Engineering leadership, usually. People over technology, always
I used to be @eshamow on the Twitters
married to someone smarter than me
they/them
Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social I help people figure stuff out.
I work at gitguardian.com
Also, I am at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwaynemcdaniel/
stef rose @stefinitely.cool she/her | loves 90s alternative, black hair dye, tattoos, & live music, | wife of @matty.wtf | bi 🩷💜💙| hates raw tomatoes, patriarchy, and fascism | keeper of a tuxie cat, chickens, & Aussies | raising teenagers | Fuck ICE | stefinitely.cool
Lindsey Smith @turbodog.bsky.social PDX
Richard Lewis @gogorichie.com Former Dev 🥑 turned DevOps Consultant by day and organizer of @chicago.devopsdays.org by night. I talk about #Azure, #DevOps, & awful #chicago sports teams
You can find me at www.gogorichie.com
Jace Varlet @jembawls.com ~ idiot chasing dreams ~
🎮 Solo game dev
🎥 Twitch Partner
📺 YouTube Partner
✍️ CM/Dev for @amongthewildgame.com & @rvthereyetgame.com
🎤 Half of @StateOf.dev
🏭 ex-CM/Dev for Satisfactory
📬 business email: business@jembawls.com
🔗 Links: jembawls.com
@jeffmarek.bsky.social @jeffmarek.bsky.social 
The Sheet with Jeff Marek @thesheethockey.bsky.social A daily hockey show on Daily Faceoff with Jeff Marek
Snutt @snutt.bsky.social Freelance game developer
Previously: Community Manager & programmer for Satisfactory (Coffee Stain)
linktree.com/snutt
twitter.com/@bustasnutt
Simon McCartney @simonmcc.bsky.social random([“Cars”, “Coffee”, “Computers”, “Family”])
Rok Garbas @rok-garbas.bsky.social Engineer at Flox | 20+ yrs DevOps & Release Eng | Ex-Mozilla | I build tools then help people use them | Nix community contributor | Conference speaker
WeatherPeens @weatherpeens.bsky.social 
Jeff Smith @allthingsdork.com VP of Cloud Operations at Basis Technologies. Author of Operations Anti-Patterns, DevOps Solutions. Husband and father of 2. Lover of Star Trek, D&D and video games. Chicago. Go Cubs!
Susannah Axelrod @johnnywhitecollar.bsky.social 
@tomberek.bsky.social @tomberek.bsky.social 
Ron Efroni @refroni.bsky.social President @ NixOS Foundation + Building Flox + Hacking away at bringing Nix everywhere ;)
@jpaulreed @jpaulreed.com Incident response & management+human factors in software development & operations.
“How many incidents does it take to get to the center of a sociotechnical system?"
(Yes, that @jpaulreed on The Old Bird Site/Mastodon)
Courtney Nash @courtneynash.bsky.social Internet Incident Librarian. Founder of the VOID. VP of the Resilience in Software Foundation
Samantha Yeargin @slyeargin.com 👩🏻💻 Nashville-based software engineer (previously: Erlang, Python, React, Go, et al; currently: Rails, Elixir, Typescript, Next.js), [sporadic, slow] + [runner, writer], mom, elder Millennial.
Posts, reposts, and likes deleted fortnightly via script.
Bryan - Trans Rights @bryanbastin.bsky.social Trans Rights, forever.
Steam @steampowered.com Steam, The Ultimate Online Game Platform.
For support: http://help.steampowered.com/en/
Jerry Cattell @jerrycattell.bsky.social SRE @TempusAI (formerly lifesquare, pulseenergy, @orbitz, i-drive, @fedex).
he/him
John Northrup @northrup.bsky.social Working in the software mines at GitHub.
sdpn @sdpnsports.bsky.social Home of The Steve Dangle Podcast, The Chris Johnston Show, Drew & Stew, Agent Provocateur and Nailing The Apex.
Watch and listen here >> https://linktr.ee/sdpn
R.I.Pienaar @devco.net Consultant working on very large scale automation backplanes specialising in highly distributed server estates with 100s of thousands or millions of nodes.
mastodon: ripienaar@devco.social
Instagram: ripienaar
github: ripienaar
🇿🇦🇬🇧🇱🇻🇲🇹🇪🇺
Lance Albertson @ramereth.bsky.social Director of the Oregon State University Open Source Lab. I make a lot of things go for the FOSS ecosystem.
Randy Shoup @randyshoup.bsky.social Dad | Cook | Speaker | Engineering Leader (Thrive Market, eBay, Google). He/him. 🖖🌊🏃🏻♂️💻
Jamin Guy @jaminguy.bsky.social engineering leader, iOS developer since the 2007 jailbreak days, unretired WoW raider
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com Snarkmonger. Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group.
he/him.
Get my opinionated take on AWS news: http://lastweekinaws.com/t/
Signal: 833-AWS-BILL (833-297-2455)
James Mirtle @mirtle.bsky.social Senior Writer, @TheAthletic.com. Covering the NHL since 2004. Leaf Report podcast & Red Light newsletter. Kamloops kid in Toronto 🇨🇦
Scott Wheeler @scottcwheeler.bsky.social National reporter (NHL Draft/prospects) at The Athletic. Author of On The Clock: Behind the Scenes with the Toronto Maple Leafs at the NHL Draft.
Craig Custance @craigcustance.bsky.social Author of The Franchise: The Business of Building Winning Teams 📚
Head of Creative Development at @TheAthletic | Formerly @ESPN
🔗 http://www.craigcustance.com
✉️ craig@theathletic.com
Shayna @shaynagoldman.bsky.social hockey words, numbers, & moving pictures @ the athletic. 1/3 of too many men.
https://linktr.ee/hayyyshayyy
Adam Wylde @adamwylde.bsky.social SDPN
Jacob Helwig @jhelwig.bsky.social https://technosorcery.net/about/me/
mtodd @mtodd.bsky.social 
Stephen Yeargin @stephenyeargin.com https://social.yearg.in/@stephenyeargin / bridged to: @stephenyeargin.dev
Brent Terhune @brentterhune.bsky.social Comedian. The Field Trip and They're Coming to Get You podcasts. It’s satire.
Adam Faris @af9.us Writing about systems and storage at https://amf3.github.io
Kevin Reedy @kevinreedy.net 23rd Best Shuffleboard Player in the World, Cyclist, Founder of RecRec, Customer Success Architect at @github.com, Organizer of @chicago.devopsdays.org
Kendrick lobstar @klobstar.bsky.social kendrick lobstar | https://linktr.ee/klobstar
Ben Futoriansky @benfutor.bsky.social Building stuff @flox.dev
Steve "Dangle" Glynn @stevedangle20.bsky.social Hockey YouTuber. SDPN CEO. Steve Dangle Podcast. I wrote two books. Laugh a little. He/Him. https://linktr.ee/stevedangle
Jim Remsik @jremsikjr.bsky.social Genuinely desire success in those around you and do what you can to make it happen.
Founder of Flagrant a software design & development consultancy.
https://www.beflagrant.com
He/him
Ross Turk 👋 @rossturk.com Member of amazing teams, lover of open technologies, husband, maker of things.
Nick Lewis @nlew.net eng @flox.dev
Richard Crowley @rcrowley.org I just try to be useful and eat pizza.
https://rcrowley.org
Patrick Debois @jedi.be At the intersection of Generative AI , DevOps and anything in the SDLC - AI Native Development and Infrastructure
Bryan Honof @handle.invalid 
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Flox @flox.dev https://flox.dev
https://github.com/flox/flox
flox init
flox install <package>
flox activate
git add .flox/
git commit -m 'add repeatable dev environment'
git push
Leigh Capili 🧋 @capileigh.bsky.social Flux, Kubernetes, Skate, Snow 🏂
Kate Holterhoff, PhD @kateholterhoff.com Analyst @redmonk.com 📊
Affiliated researcher @ Georgia Tech 🎓
Author of 2 books 📚
Award-winning podcast host 🎙️
#AI #Frontend #JavaScript #DevX
nataliagranato.xyz @nataliagranato.xyz 🇵🇸✊🏾 OSS Contributor | CNCF Ambassador | Docker Captain | Community Organizer | Plataform Engineer at Ifood
Marc Cluet @lynxman.devroot.org Catalan living in England | Executive Director | Avid Technologist | DevOps Institute Ambassador | OpenUK Ambassador | Posts are my own.
Paul Czarkowski @paulczar.bsky.social Just another devop
Timothy St. Clair @timothysc.bsky.social Father, Coach • Slow Rolling Entrepreneur • ex-DE/PE (Broadcom/VMware-Tanzu, Heptio, Red Hat-Openshift) • k8s `OG` + Mesos & Condor Alum • Building superclusters in the sky
eric sorenson @ahpook.bsky.social synthesist, live sound engineer and lighting tech, anti-fascist. product manager for oss supply chain security @github.com ... "Descriptive, helpful, and collaborative, with no indications of prohibited content."
Dr. Dawn Foster @geekygirldawn.bsky.social Open source strategy consultant (details at https://fastwonder.com/), Governing Board member and WG chair at CHAOSS, OpenUK board, TODO Group Ambassador, runner, sci-fi, 3D printed designs, vegan, world traveler. Opinions my own.
Mark Burgess @markburgessosl.bsky.social Em. Prof. Computing Systems, Information physics, Quantum Field Theory, Promise Theory, Cognitive Agents, Semantic Spacetime, CFEngine, author, hobby composer of eclectic musical styles...film music fan. Emotional support animal. Stuff at markburgess.org
James Fryman @jfryman.bsky.social 
DORA @dora.dev Get better at getting better.
https://dora.dev
Pete Lumbis @plumbis.bsky.social Building really big computers at NVIDIA.
CCIE/CCDE.
📍 Asheville, NC
Jack Rhysider @jackrhysider.bsky.social Creator of Darknet Diaries.
Verification: https://twitter.com/JackRhysider/status/1675298532406984707
Accidental CISO @accidentalciso.net I accidentally became the CISO. I didn't want this job, but the job chose me. I'm scared, and I want to go home.
https://www.accidentalciso.net
Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social Cofounder at Freeman & Forrest, author, cartoonist, and Pwnie Award-winning songwriter. Ex-Google. Here to help.
Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com I am eminently qualified to speak from experience about a variety of dumpster fires.
ICS DFIR at Dragos, martial artist, marksman, humanist, level 14 Neutral Good rogue, USAF retired. I post *very serious* things about infosec. Thoughts my own. Enby. 🏳️🌈
Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev 👩💻 Sr Dir of DevRel at @GitHub.
🔥 Grandmother of the first-ever hellthread.
🖨️ Will probably convince you to buy a 3D printer.
Matt Davis @da5is.com Currently
- (8y): Azure Technical Specialist at Microsoft (Infra, Dev, and Security)
Previously
- (2y) OpenStack, Kubernetes Team Lead,
- (1y) Secure Mobile Middleware Architect
- (15y) Datacenter Ops and Management
Chad Metcalf @handle.invalid CEO of Continue. I love dev tools and open source. I advise and build early startups. I’ve been fortunate to be part of Arch Rock, Cloudera, WibiData, Puppet, Docker, and Gitpod.
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'
Amy Renee @amyengineer.bsky.social All things networking & security.
Sharer of knowledge, purveyor of puns, curator of amusement. Wielder of snark & sparkly bats.
@amyengineer@infosec.exchange
@amyengineer on the Twitters
John "dadpool' Vincent @lus.is https://at.lus.is
Andi Mann @andimann.bsky.social Global CTO, CPO, CMO - strategist, technologist, innovator, communicator, author, cyclist, cook, skier, traveler ...
Was @andimann on the bird site.
Personal account. My work is on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/andimann
Jeremy, the patronizing Saint of DevOps 🇺🇦 @jerdog.dev #DevRel, #DevEx, #Community, #Opensource things. Ex CircleCI, Auth0, etc. #DevOpsDays KC Organizer. @jerdog@hachyderm.io on 🐘.
FDT. Fuck ICE.
#BlackLivesMatter
#AbortionIsHealthcare
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
Website: jmeiss.me
Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com Heir to the Heinz Ketchup fortune.
https://somewhattolerable.com
Damon Edwards @damonedwards.bsky.social 
Dan 🌈 @phrawzty.com DevRel at Cerbos. DevOpsDays global core. Formerly Datadog, Mozilla, & Ubisoft. The king of Nynex—I know you play the game.
DevOpsDays Chicago @chicago.devopsdays.org Official Bluesky account of #DevOpsDays Chicago. In-Person Event March 18, 2025. https://devopsdays.org/chicago
Mandi Walls @lnxchk.bsky.social DevOps, plants, and nonsense 
Hannah Foxwell @hannahfoxwell.net Outdoorsy, creative, independent
Here to chat about Life, Beers, DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, AI, Security
Building @AIfortherestofus.live
(she/her)
John Allspaw @allspaw.bsky.social Cofounder, @AdaptiveCLabs, “the NTSB of Tech” bringing Resilience Engineering to industry. he/him. Won’t speak on all-male panels, and #blacklivesmatter.
Pete Cheslock @petecheslock.com 🥩 He/Him 🍖 "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing."
Donnie Berkholz, Ph.D. @dberkholz.com SVP Platforms, Architecture & Research, Sabre. Everything from AI to Kubernetes to mainframes, value streams to UX to platforms.
Prev: (S)VP Percona/Docker/CWT, analyst 451/RedMonk, biophysicist Mayo Clinic/Oregon State, OSS Gentoo. Opinions mine.
David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com CEO, Expanso. Prev: Protocol Labs, MSFT, K8s, Kubeflow, GOOG, AMZN, etc. 4x founder/CEO. The universe is a vector in Hilbert space.
Chris Short @chrisshort.net Principal Trainer, KodeKloud | DevOps'ish | Kubernetes Contributor Comms | Open Source | Corgis | Detroit | Disabled Veteran | Views solely mine
Too Many Men @2-much-man.bsky.social @AlisonL, @shaynagoldman, and @saracivian
put their little lady brains together to discuss hockey. Very inspiring.
Christian Herro @christianherro.bsky.social Organizer for @devopsdaysChi.
Learning how to lead SREs. Tech/board games/books/music/dancing/diversity/achewood/Babylon 5.
http://pronoun.is/he
@christianherro@hachyderm.io
Andy Fleener @andyfleener.bsky.social
Humanist, Systems Thinker, Safety Nerd, VP of Engineering at Monoline, Devopsdays MSP Organizer, Chaos Engineering Book Contributor, he/him
Sharone Zitzman @shar1z.com Co-org of tlvcommunity.dev >> home to DevOpsDays TLV • Cloud Native & OSS IL • Statscraft
One half of Dev Advocast | Follow #shar1zbookclub on Medium or Twitter if you like books.
Community Linktree:
https://linktr.ee/tlvcommunity
Dennis Gilmore @ausil.bsky.social Open Source, Fedora, Red Hat, OpenShift, Multi-Arch(Arm, Power, Z, and RISC-V), wood working for fun. 🇦🇺🇺🇸
Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social I don't even fucking know anymore. I guess I do tech when I'm employed, I'm Jewish and my body hates me.
The Goku of the Rap Game @rapgamegoku.bsky.social I have masters degrees in karate and friendship.