Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com CTO and co-founder @ Craftwork (YC S23)
💌 Tiny Improvements for devs and founders: mikebifulco.com/newsletter
Co-founder APIs You Won't Hate
Former Google / Stripe / Microsoft
Talking UX, react, rails, ☕ espresso, 🚴♂️ cycling
🪿 UNGOVERNABLE
Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com Co-founder of @protect.earth, a registered charity (England & Wales) creating/restoring woodlands and other knackered ecosystems to sequester carbon and fight the biodiversity crisis. Electric van/boat life, bikepacking, and boycotting fossil fuels. he/him
Alexander Karan @alexanderkaran.bsky.social Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian. JavaScript dev and TEDx speaker with a passion for software architecture, well designed APIs, and performance.
https://e18e.dev - https://openapi.tools - https://apisyouwonthate.com
https://www.alexanderkaran.com
Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social Software developer, professionally in Java but tinkering in Rust and Go.
Cisgender He/him but I'll answer to anything vaguely polite.
I'm British, so sarcasm is assumed as standard.
Kevin Swiber @swiber.dev 🔎 programming + leadership + architecture + ops
🤖 Working at the intersection of AI and APIs (ex-Postman, ex-Apigee)
✨ enby (they/them)
iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com Staff DevRel Engineer @ Square/Block
I post about Python, APIs, AI/ML, dad jokes, and tech career/interview prep coaching.
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Jack Skinner @gdayitsjack.bsky.social Full snack CTO, founder & engineering leader. Independent consultant helping teams build amazing software products. Managed API Portals @ FrontGate.app.
@ndimares.bsky.social @ndimares.bsky.social
Matt Trask @matthewtrask.com Software developer (php mostly) | reluctant engineering manager | photographer | cyclist | history nerd | certified short king 👑 | Nashville, TN
Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com Father, Husband, Vida 🦋🤍
Tutorials for @laravelnews
Columnist at @phpArch
Livestreams at http://youtube.com/@JustSteveKing
API Evangelist @apievangelist.com I am the API Evangelist, making sense of the technology, business, policies, and the people of APIs since 2010 by surveying and assessing the public and private API landscape.
APIs You Won't Hate @apisyouwonthate.com The biggest community on the web for API Developers: a newsletter, OSS, articles, books, a podcast, and a great big slack community on a mission to make API Developers lives better.
https://apisyouwonthate.com
https://openapi.tools
Chuck Reeves @manchuck.bsky.social Senior Javascript Developer Advocate Vonage "Normal is just a setting on your dryer" -Patsy Clairmont
Nick Forsberg @nickwforsberg.com Co-founder of the 100% bootstrapped start-up https://theauthapi.com. 🔑📊💰
What is your biggest challenge with scaling your API's success?
Evert Pot @evertpot.com All pets, no cattle
works at @ https://vlt.sh/
https://evertpot.com/
Rob Allen @akrabat.com API and web software consultant and developer based in Worcester, UK. OSS contributor (SlimPHP, rst2pdf, Apache OpenWhisk). Takes photos for fun. He/him.
quobix @ https://quobix.com @quobix.bsky.social
Michael Gasch @embano1.mgasch.com Product Manager AWS. Golang. Distributed Systems.
Views and opinions are my own.
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social on software infrastructure @theconsensus.dev.
theconsensus.dev
Russ Cox @swtch.com
Duffie Cooley @mauilion.dev Field CTO Isovalent // Proud CNCF Ambassador // I am committed to seeing others succeed.
@mauilion everywhere else
Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com Spring Developer Advocate
Java Champion
Kotlin Google Dev Expert
https://YouTube.com/@coffeesoftware
https://github.com/joshlong
Heidi Howard @heidihoward.bsky.social
Murat (Distributolog) @muratdemirbas.bsky.social Distributed systems,Database systems, Lightweight formal methods, TLA+
https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/
Michael Hausenblas @mhausenblas.info Principal Software Engineer, Genesys | 塞翁失马
https://o11y.news
Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social CTO of Microsoft Azure, author of novels Rogue Code, Zero Day and Trojan Horse, Windows Internals, Sysinternals tools. Opinions are my own.
tiffany jernigan 🐦🔥 @tiffanyfay.dev 👩💻🥑 @grafana.bsky.social
☸️ #cncf ambassador
💻 ex- vmware, amazon, intel, docker
🎓 electrical engineering georgia tech
💭 opinions:mine
📸 instagram.com/tiffanyfayj
🇺🇸 seattle, wa
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Tim Hockin @thock.in I like writing software, even if I don't get to do it much anymore. Kubernetes. Star Wars nerd, Expanse fan, dad, dork.
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 · 🚴
Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Databases @ Carnegie Mellon.
David Crawshaw @crawshaw.io ceo exe.dev, tailscale co-founder, programmer
Gwen Shapira @gwenshap.bsky.social Founder of SaaS Developer Community and Nile Database.
Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev Knuck if you buck practitioner
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
Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social Professor at FEUP University of Porto and researcher at INESC TEC. Distributed Systems and Data. Co-creator of CRDTs. Founder eurotux.com. Still searching for unknown unknowns. (🦋 July 2023)
Web: https://cbaquero.github.io/web/
Joe Beda @h.olysh.it Out of retirement to be CTO @ Stacklok. Did k8s, GCE, gtalk and IE. Figuring shit out. Protect Trans kids 🏳️⚧️. Seattle. Signal: jbeda.99 he/him
Chris @chris.blue 37% context left
Tim Bray @tbray.org Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.
I’m mainly on Fedi, @cosocial.ca@timbray. On this account I mostly post #blueskyabove photos; for more, if you’re not on Fedi try @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggo.net ⌯Go ⦁ Walking the line between correctness and comprehension ⦁ bill@ardanlabs.com ⦁ kronkai.com ⦁ wife(aleintech.com) ⦁ GoBridge
Brian Grant @bgrant0607.bsky.social CTO/cofounder of ConfigHub. Original lead architect of Kubernetes and creator of its declarative configuration model.
Mike @mfridman.bsky.social technology, landmarks, left joins and Go vibes.
Protocol Buffers for the rest of us @buf.build
James Munnelly @munnerz.bsky.social Kubernetes @ Apple | cert-manager maintainer | previously @ Jetstack
Stefan Schimanski @sttts.social API Machinery @ ex-Upbound, ex-Redhat, Kubernetes, OpenSource, logician, restless, hungry & foolish, þetta reddast, http://github.com/sttts – Opinions&tweets are my own, http://mastodon.social/@sttts
Alex DeBrie @alexdebrie.bsky.social 💻 Independent consultant
⭐️ AWS Data Hero
📖 Author of DynamoDBBook.com. Creator of DynamoDBGuide.com
⚡️ Ex-@goserverless, @HudlEngineering
Timo Reimann @timoreimann.bsky.social Systems Engineer working @ Cloudflare
Twitter: @timoreimann
Massimo Re Ferré @mreferre.bsky.social Chief Psychology Officer @awscloud
More about me @ https://it20.info/about/
Fabio Rapposelli @fabio.rapposelli.org CTO @Satispay 🦄 | Ex-VMware/Broadcom Distinguished Engineer | 20+ years discovering that great tech comes from understanding both systems and souls | Speaker, mentor, perpetual student
Dan Farrelly - Inngest @danfarrelly.com CTO + Co-founder @inngest.com: The queuing and orchestration platform for modern software teams.
Former CTO @buffer.com, created @maildev.github.io
Reuben Bond @rbn.bsky.social Distributed Systems & databases person. Works at Microsoft on Orleans & Aspire
Mat Ryer @matryer.bsky.social Director Engineering @ Grafana Labs. Safe and actually useful AI. Music. Podcaster, Conference emcee, Author. Games.
Stefan Prodan @stefanprodan.com OSS maintainer of CNCF projects Flux, Flagger and the GitOps Toolkit
Head of Development @controlplane.io
🫶 #golang #cuelang #kubernetes #gitops
👉 https://github.com/stefanprodan
Carlos Santana @santana.dev AWS EKS Specialist SA | @cncf.io Ambassador | CNCF Kubernetes Book Club organizer, GitOps, Argo SIG-scalability lead, Kubernetes, CNOE, Platform Engineering, Fleet Management, GenAI, AI, NVIDIA Jetson
Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me sugarbaby cosplaying as a tech consultant • mean eastern european with unrealistically high expectations and unreasonable quality standards
🏳️🌈he/him🏳️🌈
Eddie Zaneski @eddiezane.bsky.social OSS @ Defense Unicorns | SIG CLI @kubernetes.dev
Alex Xu @bytebytego.bsky.social Follow me for system design & book-writing tips. | Author of the bestselling book series: ‘System Design Interview’ | Join 350,000+ Readers: blog.bytebytego.com
Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com AWS Serverless Hero & Principal Engineer @ PostNL
Pires @pires.dev Trouble maker, insolent and a pain in the neck. Into distributed-systems. Mostly-retired DJ. Triathlete-wannabe. 🇵🇹
ahmet alp balkan @ahmet.dev working on compute infra at LinkedIn.
ex-twitter/googlecloud/azure
dist sys enthusiast
github.com/ahmetb
Renee Shah @reneeshah.bsky.social Partner at Redpoint focused on AI, infra, security, and developer tools ⚡️
Otávio Carvalho @otavioccc.bsky.social Yet another software bricklayer.
Peter Evans @peterevans.bsky.social Software engineer @github.com
http://peterevans.dev
Fernando Meyer @fernandomeyer.com LabHacker platform engineer and musician;
I'm drawn to hard problems, abstractions, and music;
I build code, hardware, and systems meanwhile overthinking with pen and paper until they’re simple. ps: I have more notebooks than is socially defensible.
Taichi Nakashima @deeeeet.bsky.social https://deeeet.com/
Till Rohrmann @tillrohrmann.bsky.social Co-founder @restate.dev: Building resilient applications made easy! Apache Flink Committer and PMC member. Previously @ververica.com
Justin Sheehy @justinsheehy.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hachyderm.io/@justinsheehy, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Nate Finch @natefinch.bsky.social Gopher at GitHub working on Copilot. Author of Mage. Dungeon Master and Magic player. Used to be NateTheFinch on the Bird Site that shall not be named.
Uwe Friedrichsen @ufried.bsky.social Uwe Friedrichsen. Longtime traveler in the world of IT. Dot Connector. Keeper of timeless wisdom. Translator between floors. System design. Resilience. Sustainability. Tries to make (not only) IT a (bit) better place.
Brandur @brandur.org Engineering @ Stainless. Ex-Heroku, Stripe, and Snowflake. Go, APIs, Ruby, and databases.
Jason Hall @imjasonh.com World's Okayest Dad, pizza enthusiast, single-hyphenate, container nerd at Chainguard
Udi Dahan @udidahan.com Posts about Software Development, Design, and Architecture.
Founder and CEO of NServiceBus. He/Him.
https://udidahan.com/
https://twitter.com/UdiDahan
https://hachyderm.io/@udidahan
Kaivalya Apte @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social Podcaster, Youtuber @TheGeekNarrator
(https://youtube.com/@thegeeknarrator?si=yN0zWNDAScJKv_QZ) Databases, Stream processing, Distributed systems Software Engineer @Confluent
Alex Miller @alexmillerdb.bsky.social Database Papers as a Service
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
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Dominik Tornow @dominiktornow.bsky.social Founder Resonate HQ | Distributed Async Await | Thinking in Distributed Systems | https://dtornow.substack.com
Pekka Enberg @penberg.org @🏡🇫🇮🇪🇺🧑💻
Hannes Mühleisen @hannes.muehleisen.org I like databases and boats. Co-creator of @duckdb.org, Co-Founder and CEO DuckDB Labs.
@madhavjivrajani.bsky.social @madhavjivrajani.bsky.social Systems @ UIUC | Helping Maintain The Kubernetes Project | GopherCon Co-Chair | ♥️ Theory + Systems | Views are my own.
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
Stephen Augustus (he/him) @auggie.dev Black.
#opensource governance: @kubernetes.io, @openssf.org, TODO Group
Office of the CTO, Bloomberg — Opinions are my own
Bio and links: https://whois.auggie.dev/
#Blacksky
Formerly @stephenaugustus (Twitter), @justaugustus@hachyderm.io (Mastodon)
Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social Distributed and Storage Systems. Apache Cassandra Committer and PMC member. Author of Database Internals. Mountain person. http://databass.dev/
Fernando @francofernando.com Software Engineer for 15+ years • Algorithms, Distributed Systems, System Design, Computer Vision • Dad & husband • I write http://polymathicengineer.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
Go @golang.org Go will make you love programming again. We promise.
https://go.dev/
Dan Ronald @dronimo.bsky.social Head of Product, Application Integration at AWSCloud. Previously Co-founder at OptigoNetworks, Semi Conductors @MicroChipTech
CanadaArm SW @MDA_Space - thoughts are my own
Pooya Paridel @pooyap.bsky.social Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Workflow Experience
Cherishing life with family, playing the piano, engaging in chess, enjoying music, diving into books, and embracing nature.
Gregor Samosa @watwa.re putting the yikes in Dijkstra
building floma.io & mietencheck.de
Before: MDN & commonvoice.mozilla.org
Blog: https://watwa.re
I'm on Germ DM 🔑
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Lu wilson @todepond.com prototypes @wikipedia.org
prev @tldraw.com
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London
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youtube.com/@todepond
Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com Working to make computers better. Cofounder of Ink & Switch, Heroku, and Local-First Conf.
Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com Malleable software @inkandswitch.com
prev PhD @csail.mit.edu
geoffreylitt.com
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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.
We envision a new computer that amplifies human intelligence. A system that helps you think more clearly, collaborate more effectively, and is available anywhere and anytime.
Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com Staff Research Engineer @githubnext.com. But actually a designer.
Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology.
📍 London
🌱 maggieappleton.com
Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com I want to smush software between my fingers and
turn my weathered feelings into wriggly music.
merveilles.town/@spiralganglion Δ masto
@inkandswitch.com Δ research
feelingof.com Δ podcast
ivy.boo Δ myself
she / her 🏳️⚧️
Kartik Agaram @akkartik.name Programmer building programs that are useful, easy to install, easy to run, easy to modify, easy to share. https://akkartik.name/freewheeling-apps
Jonathan Edwards @jonathoda.bsky.social Dissident computer scientist
Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org 🧑🏽💻 Co-founder of Gloodata & Instadeq
📘 Co-author of https://wasmfromthegroundup.com/
📰 Feeling of Computing Newsletter: https://newsletter.futureofcoding.org/join/
📑 Public Projects: https://marianoguerra.github.io/
𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu Working towards a user-friendly computer interface. https://automat.org/
I'm streaming my work so feel free to come and hang out at https://twitch.tv/maf_pl or https://www.youtube.com/@MarekRogalski!
Patrick Dubroy @dubroy.com Programmer & researcher, co-creator of https://ohmjs.org. 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 🇪🇺
Co-author of https://wasmgroundup.com — learn Wasm by building a simple compiler in JavaScript.
Prev: CDG/HARC, Google, BumpTop
Jasmine Otto @jazztap.bsky.social Visualization developer, researcher, educator. Prev. NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, UC Santa Cruz (PhD Computational Media).
University of San Francisco lecturer (incoming).
Projects: jazztap.github.io
Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social https://mkremins.github.io