List of awesome people offering their time for free to have a "coffee chat" with others about different topics, mostly in a mentorship kind of way.
| Name | URLs | Work | Languages | Topics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Gardner | Website Mastodon |
DevRel at Dynatrace | English | CNCF Feature flagging Observability Open source SCUBA Diving Teach me something new |
| Anthony Dellavecchia | LinkedIn |
Developer Evangelist, Staff at Twilio | English | Community Building Developer Relations Developers Documentation Imposter Syndrome Job Search Mental Health Personal Branding Software Engineering Starting in Tech |
| Baskar Rao Dandlamudi | LinkedIn |
Solutions Architect at Perficient | English | Application Development Job Searching Mobile Software Engineering Starting in Tech Tech |
| Benoît H. Dicaire | Website |
Cybersecurity Strategist at Dicaire.com | English French |
Compliance Governance Information security & privacy Public speaking Risk management |
| Chris Hiszpanski | Tech Lead at Verkada | English Polish |
AI/ML Cameras Career Chaos & Patterns DSP/Modems/Codecs/SDR Embedded/IoT Mentorship Randomness & Complexity Video Compression Video Streaming WebRTC |
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| Doug Turnbull | Website |
Principal ML Engineer (in Search) at Reddit | English | Career Development Elasticsearch Information Retrieval Learning to Rank Lucene Open Search Recommender Systems Search Search Relevance Solr Technology Leadership |
| Frédéric Harper | Website |
Principal Developer Advocate at Kubefirst | English French |
ADHD Anything else Cats Cloud & app Architecture Coffee Community Building DevOps Developer Relations Developers Documentation GitOps Job Search Kubefirst Kubernetes Mental Health Microbrewery Beer Open-Source Personal Branding Resume SaaS Architecture Software Development Starting in Tech Travelling |
| Jettro Coenradie | Website |
Search Engineer, LLM Enthousiast at Luminis | Dutch English |
Career choices Elasticsearch Large Language Models Life OpenSearch Personal Development Programming Java Retrieval Augmented Generation Search Software Architecture Vector Search Weaviate |
| Jody Winter | Website |
Technical Writer at Affinity Employer Services/Freelancing | English | Career Transitions Docs-as-Code Documenting REST APIs Editing for Clarity and Concision Freelancing While Fully Employed Gen X Women in Tech Skills Development Structuring Content Technical Writing Working in New Zealand Writing for End-Users |
| John Dietz | Website |
CEO and Cofounder at Kubefirst | English | Anything You're Passionate About Automation Building a Company Cars Coaching Dogs and Cats Drum and Bass Enterprise Architectures & Patterns Family Life Gardening Infrastructure at Scale Kubernetes and Cloud Native Software Delivery and Automation Woodworking |
| Josef Holzmayr | LinkedIn |
Head of Developer Relations at Northern.tech | English German |
Anything else Beer Developer Relations Embedded Linux Heavy Metal IoT Livecoding OTA Updates Open-Source OpenEmbedded Yocto |
| Julien Lengrand-Lambert | LinkedIn |
Lead Developer Advocate at Adyen | Dutch English French |
Anything, really Community Building Developer Relations Developers Documentation Hiring Job Search Kotlin Meetups Mentoring Personal Branding Software Engineering Starting in Tech Writing |
| Kevin Binswanger | LinkedIn |
Principal Software Engineer at Indeed | English | Backend Career Culture Game Theory and Incentives Interviewing and Hiring Job Search Mentorship Programming Java Software Development Analytics Software Engineering |
| Lidia De La Cruz | LinkedIn |
Consultant Developer at Thoughtworks | English Spanish |
Building a Personal Brand Career Transitions Free Resources Imposter Syndrome Latinx in Tech Networking POC in Tech Skills Development Starting in Tech Structuring Content |
| Maggie Barnes | LinkedIn |
Software Engineer at N/A | English | Career Pivot LGBTQ+ in Tech Networking Neurodivergence in Tech Software Engineering Software Engineering Bootcamps Starting in Tech Women in Tech Work-Life Balance |
| Maximiliano Rios | LinkedIn |
Software Engineer at Google | English | Career Transitions College Advise Designing a Project Education Tech First Tech Job Interviewing Job Search Latinx in Tech Networking Software Engineering Starting in Tech |
| Mike Staffa | LinkedIn |
Product Manager at Zeals | English | Chatbots Community Building Cross-Cultural Communication Japan Job Search Nutrition Personal Branding Starting in Tech |
| Mike Yerou | Software Engineer, Co-founder at Pale Blue | English Greek |
Android Company Branding Developer Experience Mobile Software Development Software Engineering Startups Tech Technology Leadership |
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| Noah Hall | LinkedIn |
Tech Enabler at Schibsted Media | English Welsh |
Backend Career Community Compilers Culture Frontend Mentorship Open Source Ops Programming languages |
| Ochuko Onojakpor | Website |
CEO at Request Mechanic | English | Anything else Auto Care Cats Coffee Community Building Company Branding Job Search LLMs Open-Source Resume Software Development Starting in Tech Startups Team Building |
| Quanzheng Long | Principal Software Engineer at Indeed | Chinese English |
Backend Cadence & Temporal Workflow Distributed System Low Code or No Code Workflow Programming Java/Golang Software Engineering Workflow Engine |
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| Rasheed Mudasiru | LinkedIn |
DevOps Engineer at N/A | Arabic English |
Backend CS Opportunities Cloud & Cloud-Native Community DevOps Live streams Open Source Software Podcast Software Engineering |
| Rene Pot | LinkedIn Mastodon |
Senior Developer Advocate at DHIS2 | Dutch English Frisian |
Casual Conversation Coffee Developer Relations Low-Code Mobile Development Moving Abroad No-Code Open-Source Twitch Whisky |
| Ricardo Sueiras | LinkedIn |
Developer Advocate at AWS | English | Cloud Developer Relations Education Innovation Mentoring Open Source |
| Richard Moot | LinkedIn |
Head of Developer Advocacy at Square @ Block, Inc. | English | API Design Anything else Beer Cats Coffee Developer Relations Developer Video Developers Content Job Search Open-Source Starting in Tech Travel Video |
| Sean Nieuwoudt | LinkedIn |
Freelance Developer, CTO, AI Specialist at Apollo Black | Afrikaans English German |
AI/ML Backend Career Chaos & Patterns Community Company Branding Compilers Culture Frontend LLMs Mentorship Open Source Ops Programming languages Randomness & Complexity Software Development Startups Technology Leadership |
| Shannon Lal | LinkedIn |
Director, Journey Technical Lead at RBC | English | Dev Ops Job Searching NodeJS React Software Engineering Starting in Tech Tech Web |
| Sriram Thiagarajan | LinkedIn |
Engineering Manager at Chargebee | English Tamil |
Career Developer Experience Fitness Job Searching NodeJS React Sabbatical Software Engineering Starting in Tech Tech Web |
| Tobiloba Adedeji | Website |
Software Engineer at Million, Groove | English | Career Pivot Million Open Source AI Open Source Software Software Engineering Software Engineering Bootcamps Starting in Tech |
| Wilbur Suero | LinkedIn |
Software Engineer at N/A | English Spanish |
Developer Experience React Ruby on Rails Software Engineering Tech Web |
| Zachary Powell | LinkedIn |
Sr Android Developer Advocate at Vonage | English | Android DevRel Developer Relations Job Searching Mobile Software Engineering Starting in Tech Tech |
See CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.
The idea of a coffee chat resource list is coming from Julien Lengrand-Lambert..
