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 |
| Melanys Figueredo Toledano | Website GitHub |
MarTech Consultant & Full-Stack Engineer at Freelance/Independent Consultant | English Italian Spanish |
Career Transitions Customer Data Platforms Freelancing Imposter Syndrome Job Searching Latinx in Tech Marketing Technology Overcoming Challenges Personal Branding Personal Growth Remote Work SaaS Development Starting in Tech Tag Management Systems Web Development Women 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. Note that having your name listed here will probably help you get coffee chats scheduled, but nothing is guaranteed, so the best way will always be for you to promote your coffee chats within your network and on social media.
The idea of a coffee chat resource list is coming from Julien Lengrand-Lambert..