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Coffee Chat
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Annaliese Bronz | Website |
Software Developer at N/A | English | Accountability Partner, Friendships, Goal Setting, In-person meetups, LGBTQ+ in Tech, Networking, Women in Tech |
| 2. | 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 |
| 3. | Baskar Rao Dandlamudi | LinkedIn |
Solutions Architect at Perficient | English | Application Development, Job Searching, Mobile, Software Engineering, Starting in Tech, Tech |
| 4. | Benoît H. Dicaire | Website |
Cybersecurity Strategist at Dicaire.com | English French |
Compliance, Governance, Information security, tech & privacy, Public speaking, Risk management |
| 5. | Chris Hiszpanski | Tech Lead at Verkada | English Polish |
AI/ML, Cameras, Career, DSP/Modems/Codecs/SDR, Embedded/IoT, Mentorship, Randomness/Complexity/Chaos/Patterns, Video Compression, Video Streaming, WebRTC | |
| 6. | 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 |
| 7. | 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, LinkedIn, Mental Health, Microbrewery Beer, Open-Source, Personal Branding, Resume, SaaS Architecture, Software Development, Starting in Tech, Travelling |
| 8. | 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 |
| 9. | 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 |
| 10. | John Dietz | Website |
CEO and Cofounder at Kubefirst | English | Anything That You're Passionate About, Automation, Building a Company, Cars, Coaching, Dogs and Cats, Drum and Bass, Enterprise Architectures and Patterns, Family Life, Gardening, Infrastructure at Scale, Kubernetes and Cloud Native, Software Delivery and Automation, Woodworking |
| 11. | 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 |
| 12. | 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 |
| 13. | 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 |
| 14. | 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 |
| 15. | 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 |
| 16. | Mike Staffa | LinkedIn |
Product Manager at Zeals | English | Chatbots, Community Building, Cross-Cultural Communication, Japan, Job Search, Nutrition, Personal Branding, Starting in Tech |
| 17. | Mike Yerou | Software Engineer, Co-founder at Pale Blue | English Greek |
Android, Company Branding, Developer Experience, Google, Mobile, Software Development, Software Engineering, Startups, Tech, Technology Leadership | |
| 18. | Noah Hall | LinkedIn |
Tech Enabler at Schibsted Media | English Welsh |
Backend, Career, Community, Compilers, Culture, Frontend, Mentorship, Open Source, Ops, Programming languages |
| 19. | 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 |
| 20. | 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 |
| 21. | 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 |
| 22. | Ricardo Sueiras | LinkedIn |
Developer Advocate at AWS | English | Cloud, Developer Relations, Education, Innovation, Mentoring, Open Source |
| 23. | 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 |
| 24. | Sean Nieuwoudt | LinkedIn |
Freelance Developer, CTO, AI Specialist at Apollo Black | Afrikaans English German |
AI/ML, Backend, Career, Community, Company Branding, Compilers, Culture, Frontend, LLMs, Mentorship, Open Source, Ops, Programming languages, Randomness/Complexity/Chaos/Patterns, Software Development, Startups, Technology Leadership |
| 25. | Shannon Lal | LinkedIn |
Director, Journey Technical Lead at RBC | English | Dev Ops, Job Searching, NodeJS, React, Software Engineering, Starting in Tech, Tech, Web |
| 26. | 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 |
| 27. | 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 |
| 28. | Wilbur Suero | LinkedIn |
Software Engineer at N/A | English Spanish |
Developer Experience, React, Ruby on Rails, Software Engineering, Tech, Web |
| 29. | Zachary Powell | LinkedIn |
Sr Android Developer Advocate at Vonage | English | Android, DevRel, Developer Relations, Job Searching, Mobile, Software Engineering, Starting in Tech, Tech |
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Acknowledgements
The idea of a coffee chat resource list is coming from Julien Lengrand-Lambert..