Eric Lippert @ericlippert.com Eric Lippert designs programming languages; prior work includes architecting the Hack and Bean Machine compilers at Facebook, and developing the Visual Basic, VBScript, JScript and C# compilers at Microsoft. Blog at https://ericlippert.com
Devoxx Belgium @devoxx.com Devoxx Belgium 2026 : 5 - 9 October in Antwerp
GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com #GOTO Presents the Brightest Minds in Tech.
Check out GOTO Conferences.
https://gotopia.tech
https://www.youtube.com/@GOTO-
Holly Cummins @hollycummins.com @IBM - Senior Principal Software Engineer, working on Quarkus. Java Champion, developer, author, #cloud surfer and maker. My views are my own.
CMU Database Group @db.cs.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon Database Research Group
https://db.cs.cmu.edu/
Burak Sezer @buraksezer.bsky.social Software Developer
nodir @nodir.io good luck everyone
@xandkar.bsky.social @xandkar.bsky.social I like languages, distributed systems, and a life examined.
λ🐫🦀
https://xandkar.net/
Latin: xandkarus.bsky.social
Noah Watkins @dotnwat.bsky.social Engineering at Redpanda Data | makedist.com
Louis Pilfold @lpil.uk "the maintainer is a legitimate communist. i will not be supporting this language"
- some yt guy, 2024
I made @gleam.run and I do gymnastics (badly)
they/them or he/him. end fossil fuels. genocide is bad. ride a bike.
Ryanne Dolan @ry.codes BigTech BigData infra @ LinkedIn, Twitter, Cloudera
Bartosz Sypytkowski @horusiath.bsky.social Yrs/Yjs core dev team. Interested in distributed systems, databases and CRDTs. Blogging: https://www.bartoszsypytkowski.com
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Charly @charlycst.bsky.social Computer system researcher, working on OS, virtualization, and confidential computing.
Shreya Shankar @sh-reya.bsky.social PhD student at UC Berkeley. Thinking about MLOps, data analysis and processing with LLMs, HCI
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/
Christian Winter @chriswintr.bsky.social Co-Founder @cedardb.com
Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com Student of complex systems failures, resilience engineering, cognitive systems engineering. Will talk your ear off about @resilienceinsoftware.org
Yao Yue (aka ThinkingFish) @yaoyue.org Curiosity, compassion, skepticism, optimism.
Giving in to bullies only encourage them to bully further. Stand up.
Personal homepage: https://yaoyue.org
Blog: https://yaoyue.org/blog
Daniel ten Wolde @dtenwolde.bsky.social PhD student at CWI, Database Architectures | Lead developer DuckPGQ extension | Working on graphs
Philipp Fent @pfent.bsky.social Co-Founder @cedardb.com
Dominik Durner @durner.bsky.social Co-Founder at CedarDB / Database Systems
Franziska Hinkelmann, PhD @fhinkel.bsky.social Principal engineering manager at Microsoft. Former Google Chrome V8. Puppies and tacos. She/they
Alperen Keleş @keles.bsky.social METU CENG 21'
PhD Student at UMD
Programming Languages/Formal Verification/Random Testing
Writing at http://alpkeles99.medium.com
Twitter: @keleesssss
Paul Copplestone - e/postgres @kiwicopple.bsky.social ceo @supabase | YC S20
database.new
James Cowling @jamescowling.dev @convex.dev co-founder/CTO. Dropbox storage designer. Distributed systems researcher at MIT. Bad motorcycle mechanic. Database shill.
Daniel Lemire @lemire.bsky.social Daniel Lemire is a Computer Science Professor at the University of Quebec (TELUQ). Daniel Lemire ranks in the top 2% of scientists worldwide according to Stanford University/Elsevier's 2024 ranking. 
Arnaldo Melo @acmel.bsky.social Linux perf tools maintainer, pahole for understanding your data structures, eBPF tinkerer, Red Hat Distinguished Engineer.
Bob Nystrom @stuffwithstuff.com Dad, husband, brother, son. Working on Dart at Google, ex-game dev at EA, wrote "Game Programming Patterns" and "Crafting Interpreters". http://stuffwithstuff.com/
Camilo Aguilar @c4milo.bsky.social Always unlearning. Engineering leader at Redpanda.
Matt Fleming @mfleming.bsky.social Nyrkiö co-founder. Systems engineer at Cloudflare. Former Linux kernel maintainer. Performance nerd.
Yingjun Wu @yingjunwu.bsky.social Founder at RisingWave. Database, stream processing, event-driven architecture.
Bartosz Adamczewski @badamczewski01.bsky.social ⚫ Concurrency, Performance, Machine Learning, #dataorienteddesign
⚫ R&I Director - I lead CS & DS teams
⚫ Making a Compiler
⚫ Links - bio.link/bartosza
Jacky @jzhao.xyz sunset posting and sometimes independent research, distributed systems, and interaction design
Jan Lehnardt @janl.bsky.narrativ.es 25 years on the web.
Makes CouchDB, PouchDB & #offlinefirst.
CEO at @bsky.neighbourhood.ie.
ASF Member & CouchDB PMC Chair.
Made JSConf EU, Greenkeeper, Hoodie, Mustache.js.
Dissatisfied with the status-quo.
Soft Boy. Likes birds, bikes & bees.
Jens Axboe @axboe.bsky.social Linux kernel IO dabbler @ Meta
@axboe@fosstodon.org
Protty @kprotty.bsky.social Uh, concurrency.
Vinod Grover @vinodg.bsky.social Sr. Distinguished Engineer @nvidia
Alex Bradbury @asbradbury.org Compilers at Igalia. @llvmweekly.org author. Mostly RISC-V, LLVM, and a little WebAssembly. Previously lowRISC CTO and co-founder. Blogs at https://muxup.com
Ben Johnson @benbjohnson.bsky.social 
Max @bernsteinbear.com Baking bread and compilers are kinda similar if you think about it
@tekknolagi elsewhere
bernsteinbear.com
Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu Rust live-coder and OSS tinkerer who loves teaching. I try to maintain a high SNR. Wrote Rust for Rustaceans. At Helsing.ai. Formerly AWS. Co-founded ReadySet. @jonhoo elsewhere. he/him/they
Philipp Ortner @philipportner.bsky.social phd student at tu berlin
compilers, databases, ml systems
Rita Zhang @ritazh.bsky.social Eng Lead @Microsoft, #Kubernetes SIG Auth chair, Founder @GarageDoorBuddy, EECS @UCBerkeley, open source, running distributed workloads at scale- D Dan Luu @danluu.com Active on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@danluu. Also trying https://threads.net/@danluu.danluu
Peter Zaitsev @peterzaitsev.bsky.social Founder at Percona, Altinity, FerretDB,Coroot - Open Source, Data, Observability: Entrepreneur, Investor, Advisor, Author, Speaker 
Heather Miller @heathermiller.bsky.social Professing computery things at CMU, doing science at Two Sigma. Co-founder & former Executive Director of the Scala Center at EPFL. Past life: artist @ Cooper Union
Austin Henley @azhenley.bsky.social Associate Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University⚡️AI and developer tools⚡️ex startup, ex Microsoft
https://austinhenley.com/
Dov @dov.dev new world entrant to the larger software world.
Databasing @materialize.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
Stefan Marr @stefan-marr.de Interpreters, compilation, concurrency, and debugging tools.
Mike Sun @msun.io systems geek
https://msun.io
Shadaj Laddad @shadaj.me PhD student at @BerkeleySky + https://hydro.run, designing languages for modular and performant distributed systems. Co-organizer https://sfsystemsclub.com
More at https://shadaj.me!
Andrei Matei @andreimatei1.bsky.social Bringing back debuggers at Data Ex Machina. Ex CockroachDB.
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
Fatih Arslan @arslan.io Software Engineer at PlanetScale. Creator of vim-go. Design addict. Photographer. Previously at GitHub, DigitalOcean.
For longform thoughts follow my blog: arslan.io
Peter Goodman @cxx.dev C++ developer specializing in source and binary program analysis and transformation.
Michael Renner @terrorobe.bsky.social Repo plumber @ GitHub
alex gallego @emaxerrno.bsky.social founder & ceo of redpanda data - ai.redpanda.com
Nikhil Benesch @benesch.bsky.social Systems engineer @turbopuffer.bsky.social. Former CTO @materialize.com.
Sujay Jayakar @sujayakar.bsky.social cofounder @ convex.dev. easily nerd sniped and okay with it.
Till Rohrmann @tillrohrmann.bsky.social Co-founder @restate.dev: Building resilient applications made easy! Apache Flink Committer and PMC member. Previously @ververica.com
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.
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
Jay Kreps @jaykreps.bsky.social 
Sirupsen @sirupsen.bsky.social ceo & cofounder of turbopuffer.com. prev infra @Shopify 🇩🇰->🇨🇦
Brandur @brandur.org Engineering @ Stainless. Ex-Heroku, Stripe, and Snowflake. Go, APIs, Ruby, and databases.
Eugene Yan @eugeneyan.com RecSys, AI, Engineering; Principal Applied Scientist @ Amazon. Led ML @ Alibaba, Lazada, Healthtech Series A. Writing @ eugeneyan.com, aiteratelabs.com.
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/
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/ .
Anirudh Rowjee @rowjee.com Systems Engineer, poet, metalhead, art
Doing storage things at Couchbase
✍️ rowjee.com
pronoun.is/he
Dare mighty things;
Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB
Francis Stokes @francis.codes Exploring the Low Level on YouTube as Low Byte Productions
Firmware Engineer
Father x2
(he/him) 🇬🇧🇳🇱
Pekka Enberg @penberg.org @🏡🇫🇮🇪🇺🧑💻
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.
Reuben Bond @rbn.bsky.social Distributed Systems & databases person. Works at Microsoft on Orleans & Aspire
Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com Founder polarsignals.com 🧊 ❄️ Building parca.dev, Prometheus maintainer. Distributed systems, databases, and performance engineering. Actually born in Berlin. (he/him)
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
Markus Winand @winand.at SQL Renaissance Ambassador. Author, Trainer, Coach. PhD in Common Sense. Creator of http://use-the-index-luke.com and http://modern-sql.com.
v @avi.im breaking databases @tur.so W1 '21 @recursecenter.bsky.social
excited about databases, storage engines and message queues
Alex Miller @alexmillerdb.bsky.social Database Papers as a Service
Lili Cosic @lilicosic.com 👩🏻💻 Core Database Engineer @InfluxData working on InfluxDB v3 Enterprise.
📉 Advisor to Polar Signals.
I enjoy talking about databases, observability and good food.
Previously @ HashiCorp, Red Hat.
Now in Berlin 🇩🇪 from 🇸🇮
Xiangpeng Hao @xiangpeng.systems Database/storage
Flight/DataFusion/Arrow/Parquet
PhD student@UW-Madison
https://xiangpeng.systems
Abhinav Upadhyay @abhi9u.bsky.social NetBSD Dev | Python Internals, AI, compilers, databases, & performance engineering | https://blog.codingconfessions.com/
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 · 🚴
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
Tanel Poder @tanelpoder.com Creator of https://0x.tools, also a long-time computer performance nerd. Perf & troubleshooting blog: tanelpoder.com. All onions are mine.
Ivan Prisiazhnyi @johnkoepi.bsky.social Software Engineer, System Programming, Distributed Systems
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/
Charity Majors @charity.wtf cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
Sam Lambert @samlambert.com CEO @planetscale.com
Glauber Costa @glaubercosta.bsky.social Former Linux Kernel, ScyllaDB, Datadog - storage, virtualization, low level stuff.
Founder/CEO at https://turso.tech
Hannes Mühleisen @hannes.muehleisen.org I like databases and boats. Co-creator of @duckdb.org, Co-Founder and CEO DuckDB Labs.
Mark Brown @markjbrown.com I work on the Azure Cosmos DB team.
❤️ Distributed systems and databases.
Helping developers design for infinite scale.
Christian Humer @chumer.dev PL/VM/Compilers at Oracle. Working on Truffle/Graal.
ME/CFS Caretaker and Activist (https://ooe-mecfs.at).
Austrian expat in Zurich.
Heidi Howard @heidihoward.bsky.social 
Emre Sevinç @emresevinc.bsky.social AI | ML | Data | Architecture | Science | Math | Linux | Philosophy 👉 http://linkedin.com/in/emresevinc | https://ileriseviye.wordpress.com | https://x.com/EmreSevinc
Kemal Akkoyun @kakkoyun.me GIF Monger, builder, tinkerer and geek.
Observability, Reliability, Performance. Mostly focused on #Go, #eBPF and #OpenTelemetry
@prometheus.io, and @opentelemetry.io team member.
#profiling #kubernetes #golang #zig #linux #perf