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 |
| Alessandro Oppedisano | Full stack Developer at Pharmercure | English Italian |
Angular Backend Books and Comics C# CSS Cinema Dogs and Cats Frontend HTML Java JavaScript Job Search Music React Resume Starting in Tech Startup TypeScript Vue Work in italy |
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| Bart Lens | LinkedIn GitHub |
Founding engineer at Conveo (YC S24) | Dutch English |
Books CSS Design Entrepreneurship Frontend HTML JavaScript Mentoring Music React Startups Teach me something new/interesting TypeScript |
| 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 |
| Bob Fornal | LinkedIn |
Senior Solutions Developer II at Leading EDJE, Inc. | English | Angular CSS Frontend HTML JavaScript Job Search Personal Branding React Resume Starting in Tech Vue |
| 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 |
| Enrico Zerilli | Website |
Senior Integration Developer at EnL Software Integration | English | .NET Azure Integration Services BizTalk C# MVC Resume SOA SQL VB.NET WCF WPF |
| 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 |
| Guido Penta | Website GitHub |
Tech Recruiter at forloop.tech | English Italian |
CV Review Everything you want How to manage an interview How to write a CV for devs Mentoring Personal branding Public Speaking Soft skills Work in Italy Work-related topics |
| Ivan Pesenti | Website GitHub |
Software Engineer at Dectar | English Italian |
Anything else Backend/API CV/Resume Databases Developer Relations Food Go Interviewing Linux Mentoring Personal Branding Public speaking Software Development Sports System Design Technical Writing Testing csharp |
| 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 |
| Joel Lord | Website GitHub |
Lead Developer Advocate at MongoDB | English French |
Anything else Beer Brewing Database Developer Relations JavaScript Job Search Mental Health MongoDB Open-Source Resume Software Development Travel |
| John Berryman | Website GitHub |
Principal Consultant at Arcturus Labs | English | AI/LLM Application Development Community Building Consulting Retrieval Technology The Nature of Consciousness |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Kang-Kyu Lee | LinkedIn GitHub |
Software engineer at Lining Link LLC | English Korean |
Backend Coding interview preparation Pair programming Programming Golang Ruby on Rails |
| 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 |
| Matteo Bianchi | Website GitHub |
Cloud Native Engineer at Independent | English Italian |
CNCF CV Review Cloud Native Community Kubernetes Metal Music Mock Interview Open Source Personal Finance Platform Engineering Public Speaking |
| 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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| Mohamed Abdul Hameed | Website |
Software Engineer at 100Devs Agency | English | Anything else Devops JavaScript Kubernetes Livestreaming Religion/Spirituality Transitioning to tech |
| Nicolas Grenié | Website |
Developer Advocate at Typeform | English French Spanish |
APIs Automation Developer Relations Developer tools Low code and No code Product Hunt |
| 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 |
| Phil Miller | Website GitHub |
Co-founder at DMNO | English | Configuration as Code DevOps DevRel Developer Documentation Developer Tools Engineering Management Frontend Jurassic Park Music Tech Startups Trail Running |
| 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 |
| Simon Emms | Website GitHub |
Engineer at Kubefirst | English | Beekeeping Cloud-native Comedy Engineering (civil) Engineering (software) Gardening History Just a jolly good chat Kubernetes Making stuff Mentoring Recruitment Software Development Woodworking |
| 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 |
| Steve Wade | Website GitHub |
Cloud-Native Consultant & Trainer at Independent | English | CV Review Cloud-Native ecosystem Everything you want GitOps How to manage an interview Mentoring Personal branding Public Speaking Soft skills Work-related topics |
| 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 |
| Vishruth Harithsa | Website |
Engagement Manager at Dynatrace | English Hindi |
AMA on Technology Algorithm Design JavaScript Mentoring on Technology Observability Software Development Teach me something interesting |
| 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..