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US government bond trader since '93 with the usual stints along the way at primary dealers and HFs. Now on my own. Pseudonym
FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
Prof. of technology & development at IIPP-UCL, SPRU & TalTech. Author 'Technological Revolutions & Financial Capital'. Also in Anthemis UK on role of State
Writing The Pragmatic Engineer (@pragmaticengineer.com), the #1 technology newsletter on Substack. Author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook (engguidebook.com). Formerly at Uber, Skype, Skyscanner. More at pragmaticengineer.com
Political Scientist, Griffith University | Fellow, Australian Research Council | Authoritarian politics, democratization, dictators, election observation, Southeast Asian politics.
Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
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Asst Prof. of US History at UNC Chapel Hill.
Basketball, running, cats. Go celtics go heels.
Political liberal, hoop reactionary.
Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine.
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UDA (Unified Data Architecture) and Upper domain modeling language at Netflix. Former , W3C/MIT. RDF expert who prefers Scala over Java. One Piece nerd.
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Visualization & data analysis research at the University of Washington. In a prior life was the Stanford Vis Group. https://idl.uw.edu
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Entrepreneur, software engineer, non-conformist.
🔥 Creator of shadowtraffic.io
NetBSD Dev | Python Internals, AI, compilers, databases, & performance engineering | https://blog.codingconfessions.com/
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Flight/DataFusion/Arrow/Parquet
PhD student@UW-Madison
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Engineering Manager @clickhouse.com | Databases | Kubernetes | http://parallelthoughts.xyz | https://berlinsystems.xyz/ | https://cal.com/manishgill | AI Research @TomTom
Delhi raised, Berlin based.
Co-founder/CTO @fennel.ai / Databases #DataBS / Distributed Systems / Infrastructure. @bothra90 on Twitter.
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/ .
Engineering @ Stainless. Ex-Heroku, Stripe, and Snowflake. Go, APIs, Ruby, and databases.
Working at Datadog on Go Profiling, Performance, OpenTelemetry and more.
Before:
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- Co-founder at Transloadit
- Node.js Core Dev
Staff Engineer at Confluent, Committer and PMC Member at Apache Flink.
Co-Founded data Artisans. Member of the Apache Software Foundation.
Looker Founder, makes things with bits.
Trying to make a better SQL with Malloy
Senior Software Engineer at Ceph, IBM
You’ll find me talking about computers, databases, distributed systems, fiction books, movies, music, photography, building Lego and puzzles!
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Co-founder @restate.dev: Building resilient applications made easy! Apache Flink Committer and PMC member. Previously @ververica.com
cofounder @ convex.dev. easily nerd sniped and okay with it.
Systems engineer @turbopuffer.bsky.social. Former CTO @materialize.com.
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OSS contributor https://github.com/lhotari, Distributed Systems Engineer. Principal Engineer at StreamNative. Apache Pulsar PMC member. Apache Software Foundation member. 🇫🇮🇨🇦🇺🇦
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.
Co-founder: https://gruntwork.io. Author: https://fundamentals-of-devops.com, https://terraformupandrunning.com, https://hello-startup.net. Previously: LNKD, TRIP.
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
Engineer, Optimist, Open Source enthusiast, https://mailgun.com alumni, Efficiency Evangelist, Project: http://querator.io, blog: https://wippler.dev
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Computer things @Berkeley and music things elsewhere.
Mostly here to talk about data infra. Opinions will eventually be your own.
Co-founder @ http://dbos.dev • Stanford PhD • Database Geek • Building https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-py
Working on transactional, Elastic-quality search for Postgres at https://www.paradedb.com/ - 日本語を勉強しています
Principal Architect @posit.co, GP Composed Ventures, Co-founder Voltron Data. Open source: Apache Arrow, pandas, Ibis. "Python for Data Analysis" book
Arch Data (@arch.dev) Founder/CEO
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ex-Data @ GitLab, Concert Genetics
PhD @ Vanderbilt
Paid Data Influence / Actor aka "The Peter Drucker of Data Shitposts"
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Creator, Founder and CEO of @tigerbeetle.com — the financial transactions database designed for mission critical safety and performance.
Teacher, researcher, internationalist, republican.
tompepinsky.com
I ask a lot of questions. Lead Independent Director of Finance Bluesky. Portfolio Mangler. Take each post with a grain of sea salt. Not opinions of Bridgewater LLC.
Dad to a four-year old and getting the same adrenaline rush when I used to spend every waking moment rock climbing, surfing, and getting rowdy.
Also someone who found the place he was meant to be in the tech space and helping others do the same.
Design engineer playing with AI and hacky prototypes @githubnext.com
Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology.
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observability @ cloudflare workers
I’m a work progress. Simultaneously a masterpiece & a train wreck.
Reproducible bugs are candies 🍭🍬
I like programming too much for not liking automatic programming.
Leading expert
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Product Marketing @ Oxide, 3D printing and Folding@Home enthusiast
Engineer at Oxide Computer Company. Xoogler, Marine. Software, hardware, and math. he/him
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Working on #ruelang but just for fun.
Currently in Austin, TX, but from Pittsburgh. Previously in Bushwick, the Mission, LA.
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Psychologist for the humans of tech. Author of The Psychology of Software Teams (2026). Founder: Catharsis (software strategy * science). she/her 🏳️🌈
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IRC made me gay
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Co-founder and developer at feldera.com. GNU and former Debian developer. RenFaire enthusiast. He/him.
Kubernetes @ Apple | cert-manager maintainer | previously @ Jetstack
Cofounded @authzed.com. Exited Red Hat, CoreOS.
I build distributed systems, databases, authorization systems, containers, and businesses. NYC transplant in SF.
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