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.

Annaliese Bronz (Website, LinkedIn), Software Developer at N/A: Accountability Partner, Goal Setting, Women in Tech, LGBTQ+ in Tech, Friendships, Networking, In-person meetups
Anthony Dellavecchia (LinkedIn, Twitter), Developer Evangelist, Staff at Twilio: Software Engineering, Developer Relations, Developers Documentation, Community Building, Personal Branding, Starting in Tech, Job Search, Mental Health, Imposter Syndrome
Baskar Rao Dandlamudi (LinkedIn, Twitter), Solutions Architect at Perficient: Application Development, Starting in Tech, Job Searching, Mobile, Tech, Software Engineering
Benoît H. Dicaire (Website, LinkedIn), Cybersecurity Strategist at Dicaire.com: Public speaking, Information security, technology & privacy, Governance, Risk management & compliance
Chris Hiszpanski (LinkedIn), Tech Lead at Verkada: Video Streaming, Video Compression, Cameras, Embedded/IoT, DSP/Modems/Codecs/SDR, AI/ML, WebRTC, Mentorship, Career, Randomness/Complexity/Chaos/Patterns
Doug Turnbull (Website, LinkedIn, Twitter), Principal ML Engineer (in Search) at Reddit: Search, Information Retrieval, Recommender Systems, Search Relevance, Career Development, Technology Leadership, Lucene, Elasticsearch, Solr, Open Search, Learning to Rank
Frédéric Harper (Website, LinkedIn, Twitter), Principal Developer Advocate at Kubefirst: Kubefirst, GitOps, DevOps, Software Development, Kubernetes, Cloud & app Architecture, Open-Source, SaaS Architecture, Developer Relations, Developers Documentation, Community Building, Personal Branding, Starting in Tech, Job Search, LinkedIn, Resume, Cats, Coffee, Microbrewery Beer, Travelling, ADHD, Mental Health, Anything else
Jettro Coenradie (Website, LinkedIn), Search Engineer, LLM Enthousiast at Luminis: Search, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Vector Search, Weaviate, Large Language Models, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Software Architecture, Programming Java, Personal Development, Career choices, Life
Jody Winter (Website, LinkedIn), Technical Writer at Affinity Employer Services/Freelancing: Technical Writing, Editing for Clarity and Concision, Writing for End-Users, Structuring Content, Documenting REST APIs, Docs-as-Code, Career Transitions, Skills Development, Freelancing While Fully Employed, Gen X Women in Tech, Working in New Zealand
John Dietz (Website, LinkedIn, Twitter), CEO and Cofounder at Kubefirst: Building a Company, Enterprise Architectures and Patterns, Software Delivery and Automation, Kubernetes and Cloud Native, Infrastructure at Scale, Automation, Family Life, Dogs and Cats, Drum and Bass, Cars, Coaching, Woodworking, Gardening, Anything That You're Passionate About
Josef Holzmayr (LinkedIn, Twitter), Head of Developer Relations at Northern.tech: Open-Source, Embedded Linux, Yocto, OpenEmbedded, OTA Updates, Developer Relations, IoT, Livecoding, Beer, Heavy Metal, Anything else
Julien Lengrand-Lambert (LinkedIn, Twitter), Lead Developer Advocate at Adyen: Software Engineering, Developer Relations, Developers Documentation, Community Building, Personal Branding, Starting in Tech, Job Search, Writing, Mentoring, Hiring, Meetups, Kotlin, Anything, really
Lidia De La Cruz (LinkedIn, Twitter), Consultant Developer|Developer Advocate at Thoughtworks: Starting in Tech, Structuring Content, Networking, Building a Personal Brand, Career Transitions, Skills Development, Imposter Syndrome, Latinx in Tech, Free Resources, POC in Tech
Maggie Barnes (LinkedIn, Twitter), Software Engineer at N/A: Software Engineering, Starting in Tech, Career Pivot, Software Engineering Bootcamps, Women in Tech, LGBTQ+ in Tech, Neurodivergence in Tech, Networking, Work-Life Balance
Maximiliano Rios (LinkedIn, Twitter), Software Engineer at Google: Software Engineering, Networking, Interviewing, Career Transitions, Education Tech, Designing a Project, Latinx in Tech, First Tech Job, College Advise, Job Search, Starting in Tech
Mike Staffa (LinkedIn, Twitter), Product Manager at Zeals: Cross-Cultural Communication, Community Building, Personal Branding, Starting in Tech, Job Search, Japan, Chatbots, Nutrition
Mike Yerou (LinkedIn), Software Engineer, Co-founder at Pale Blue: Software Engineering, Tech, Developer Experience, Technology Leadership, Software Development, Company Branding, Startups, Mobile, Android, Google
Noah Hall (LinkedIn, Twitter), Tech Enabler at Schibsted Media: Culture, Programming languages, Compilers, Mentorship, Open Source, Community, Career, Frontend, Backend, Ops
Ochuko Onojakpor (Website, LinkedIn, Twitter), CEO at Request Mechanic: Software Development, Company Branding, Open-Source, Startups, LLMs, Community Building, Starting in Tech, Auto Care, Job Search, Team Building, Resume, Cats, Coffee, Anything else
Rasheed Mudasiru (LinkedIn, Twitter), DevOps Engineer at N/A: Software Engineering, DevOps, Open Source Software, Community, CS Opportunities, Cloud & Cloud-Native, Podcast, Live streams, Backend
Rene Pot (LinkedIn, Twitter, Mastodon), Senior Developer Advocate at DHIS2: Open-Source, Low-Code, No-Code, Twitch, Mobile Development, Developer Relations, Coffee, Whisky, Moving Abroad, Casual Conversation
Ricardo Sueiras (LinkedIn, Twitter), Developer Advocate at AWS: Open Source, Developer Relations, Innovation, Cloud, Mentoring, Education
Richard Moot (LinkedIn, Twitter), Head of Developer Advocacy at Square @ Block, Inc.: Open-Source, Video, Developer Video, API Design, Developer Relations, Developers Content, Starting in Tech, Job Search, Cats, Coffee, Beer, Travel, Anything else
Sean Nieuwoudt (LinkedIn, Twitter), Freelance Developer, CTO, AI Specialist at Apollo Black: AI/ML, Mentorship, Career, Randomness/Complexity/Chaos/Patterns, Culture, Programming languages, Compilers, Open Source, Community, Frontend, Backend, Ops, Technology Leadership, Software Development, Company Branding, Startups, LLMs
Shannon Lal (LinkedIn, Twitter), Director, Journey Technical Lead at RBC: Starting in Tech, Job Searching, Web, Dev Ops, React, Tech, NodeJS, Software Engineering
Sriram Thiagarajan (LinkedIn, Twitter), Engineering Manager at Chargebee: Starting in Tech, Job Searching, Career, Sabbatical, Software Engineering, Web, React, Tech, NodeJS, Developer Experience, Fitness
Tobiloba Adedeji (Website, LinkedIn, Twitter), Software Engineer at Million, Groove: Software Engineering, Million, Open Source Software, Open Source AI, Starting in Tech, Career Pivot, Software Engineering Bootcamps
Wilbur Suero (LinkedIn, Twitter), Software Engineer at N/A: Software Engineering, Web, React, Tech, Ruby on Rails, Developer Experience
Zachary Powell (LinkedIn, Twitter), Sr Android Developer Advocate at Vonage: DevRel, Developer Relations, Android, Starting in Tech, Job Searching, Mobile, Tech, Software Engineering

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Acknowledgements

The idea of a coffee chat resource list is coming from Julien Lengrand-Lambert..