Coffee and Open Source

Here is Brian in their own words 👋 Howdy! Thanks for stopping by. I’m Brian and I’ve been doing technology things since acoustic modem couplers were a thing. I love Open Source and exploring different programming languages. Some highlights about me and my activities: Army Veteran: Bradley Fighting Vehicle Gunner, Infantry, 1st Armored Division. Father of five with 21 years difference between olde...

Brit is a technology leader with over a decade of experience scaling high-performing engineering teams. Prior to System Initiative, she was a member of the executive team at Hyland Software where she led global engineering teams responsible for building multiple cloud product lines. Brit was most recently Head of Cloud Engineering at Firebolt Analytics, where she was responsible for designing and...

Angie Jones is the Global Vice President of Developer Relations for TBD, Block’s new business unit focused on decentralized technologies. She is an award-winning teacher and international keynote speaker who shares her wealth of knowledge at software companies and conferences all over the world. As a Master Inventor, Angie is known for her innovative and out-of-the-box thinking style which has res...

Jim is a Principal Developer Advocate at liblab focusing on skilling and inspiring developers, especially helping API developers deliver high-quality SDKs. He’s British, so sounds way smarter than he actually is, and lives in the Pacific North West of the USA. In the past he’s lived in 4 continents working as a developer in the mobile, desktop, and scientific space. He's spoken at conferences...

My name is Rob Conery and I help developers of all sorts learn what’s new with technology. I work at Microsoft as a Developer Advocate and I am fortunate to get invited to speak at global conferences from time to time. I have been working in the technology field full time since 1998 as a DBA and then a web developer. My original focus was the Microsoft ASP.NET stack, building tools like Subsonic a...

James Jackson-South is the brains? behind ImageSharp, the cutting-edge image processing library that has become indispensable in the modern .NET developer's toolkit. His contribution to the open-source community through ImageSharp has revolutionized the way developers handle image processing, offering a powerful and flexible API that caters to a myriad of image-related tasks. With a passion fo...

Carl Franklin is Executive Vice President of App vNext, a software development firm focused on modern methodologies and technologies. Carl is a 20+ year veteran of the software industry, co-host and founder of .NET Rocks!, the first and most widely listened to podcast for .NET developers, a Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies, and Senior Executive of Pwop Studios, a full-service audio and vid...

Sarah Guthals is the Director of Developer Relations at Sentry. With a Ph. D. in Computer Science from UC San Diego, her passion is to design content, software, and companies that focus on engaging developers in learning new skills, technologies, and tools to improve their developer workflow. You can find Sarah Guthals on the following sites: Twitter Mastodon Blog YouTube Polywork PLEASE SUBSCRIBE...

Corey Weathers is a software developer who loves using technology to make the impossible possible! In his current role as a Developer Evangelist, Corey serves the interests and needs of the Microsoft developer community as well as underrepresented groups in technology. His passion lies in solving human problems through technology. Prior to Auth0, Corey has worked in a variety of software developme...

Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer. He works on projects in the TypeScript ecosystem, most notably typescript-eslint: the tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh is also the author of the O’Reilly Learning TypeScript book, a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies, and an active conference speaker. His personal projects range from stat...

Tim's tech career spans over 25 years through various sectors. Tim's initial journey into tech started in avionics in the US Marine Corps and then into various government contracting roles. After moving to the private sector, Tim worked both in large corporate environments and in small startups, honing his skills in systems administration, automation, architecture, and operations for large...

Kris Moore is the Vice President of Engineering for iXsystems. Kris is an experienced executive with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry and is closely involved in the TrueNAS Open Storage community. He holds strong information technology skills and expertise in Shell scripting, C++, operating systems, FreeBSD, and system administration. He started learning about op...

Ramiro Berrelleza is the CEO and Co-founder of Okteto, the leading platform for Development Experience Automation. With over 20 years of experience in engineering, Ramiro is a seasoned professional with a passion for building developer tooling. A visionary, Ramiro is always looking for ways to improve the software development process. He firmly believes that building modern applications is a team...

Phil Haack is a co-founder and CTO of A Serious Business, Inc. building serious products for serious people. Very serious. We are the creators of Abbot, a Copilot for Customer Success automation. Phil has over twenty years of experience in the software industry. Prior to A Serious Business, Inc., he was a director of engineering at GitHub and helped make GitHub friendly to developers on the Micros...

Alyssa Miller is a hacker who, in her pre-teens, bought her first computer and hacked her way into a paid dial-up community platform. She grew up in hacker culture, finding her hacker family in IRC channels during her adolescent years. While IT was not her original career plan, she ended up working as a developer and later a penetration tester in the financial services industry. As she moved into...

Linda is a Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services (AWS) based out of NYC. You can find her building in the cloud, sometimes 'Singing as a Service', and connecting with the tech community. She frequently share tips & 'Techtorials' about cloud computing and coding on TikTok & Instagram (@LindaVivah). You can find Linda Haviv on the following sites: Twitter Website YouTube...

Carl Tashian is an engineer, writer, exec coach, and startup all-rounder. He's currently an Offroad Engineer at Smallstep. He co-founded and built the engineering team at Trove, and he wrote the code that opens your Zipcar. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Siobhan and he loves to play the modular synthesizer. You can follow Carl on Social Media ⁠https://tech.lgbt/@tashian⁠⁠ https://tash...

Lizzie serves developers in the Bay Area and beyond on Twilio's developer evangelism team and holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Bryn Mawr. She likes Swift, JavaScript, and working with AI, but has been seen writing Python and Haskell as well. When not organizing or attending hackathons and meetups, she enjoys tennis, ping pong, and all things Disney. You can follow Lizzie...

Founder of Earthly, Founder of ShiftLeft, exGoogle, exVMware engineer, early team member of RabbitMQ team. You can follow Vlad on Social Media https://twitter.com/VladAIonescu https://vladaionescu.com/ Also check out these links from Vlad https://earthly.dev/ PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST - Spotify: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-spotify - Apple Podcasts: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-apple - Google Podc...

Bryan Hogan has been working in the tech industry for 20 years, most of which has been spent in the C# .NET world. He hosts a podcast, interviewing people in the tech industry from around the world and writes a blog. Bryan lives in the Boston area where is he is involved in the tech community through local events and his podcast. You can follow Bryan on Social Media https://twitter.com/bryanjhogan...

Chris has spent over 15 years as a backend engineer, primarily working on distributed systems and cloud based services, including a large microservices platform. She has also led teams developing internal build and deployment tooling with the goal of improving the developer’s experience. Chris currently works at Stack Overflow helping to empower the world to develop technology through collective k...

Chris Klug is a developer badass-as-a-service that either creates or solves problems depending on who you ask. He loves creating and building things. Whether it be a new application, a new kitchen or a new RC helicopter, you will see him building things all the time. Most of the time, that means writing code and solving problems for clients at a company called Active Solution in Stockholm though....

Throughout his career, Nikhil Nandagopal has always looked for a better way to do things: he’s built out a logistics operation for the largest e-commerce company in India (a direct competitor to Amazon), helped build up a travel company with over 5 million users, and even worked to scale a food delivery service from 50 meal deliveries a day to over 50,000. Now, his focus is on internal tools. From...

Bekah graduated from the Flatiron School Software Engineering program in May of 2019 and since then has spent time as a frontend developer, started the Virtual Coffee developer community, spent time in DevRel and has continued to mom her four kids. She currently co-hosts the Virtual Coffee podcast, tries to work on her postpartum wellness OSS project, and lifts heavy things in her free time. You c...

Diana Pham is a Developer Advocate at Vonage, where she helps developers and companies see the potential in communication APIs. She holds a MS in Computer Science degree from Northeastern University, and regularly talks about communications APIs, DevRel and oysters. You can follow Diana on Social Media https://twitter.com/dianasoyster https://www.linkedin.com/in/hidianapham/ https://www.youtube.co...