coffeechat/README.md

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	Topics
1.	Annaliese Bronz	Website LinkedIn	Software Developer at N/A	Accountability Partner, Goal Setting, Women in Tech, LGBTQ+ in Tech, Friendships, Networking, In-person meetups
2.	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
3.	Baskar Rao Dandlamudi	LinkedIn Twitter	Solutions Architect at Perficient	Application Development, Starting in Tech, Job Searching, Mobile, Tech, Software Engineering
4.	Benoît H. Dicaire	Website LinkedIn	Cybersecurity Strategist at Dicaire.com	Public speaking, Information security, technology & privacy, Governance, Risk management & compliance
5.	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
6.	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
7.	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
8.	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
9.	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
10.	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
11.	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
12.	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
13.	Lidia De La Cruz	LinkedIn Twitter	Consultant Developer	Developer Advocate at Thoughtworks
14.	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
15.	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
16.	Mike Staffa	LinkedIn Twitter	Product Manager at Zeals	Cross-Cultural Communication, Community Building, Personal Branding, Starting in Tech, Job Search, Japan, Chatbots, Nutrition
17.	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
18.	Noah Hall	LinkedIn Twitter	Tech Enabler at Schibsted Media	Culture, Programming languages, Compilers, Mentorship, Open Source, Community, Career, Frontend, Backend, Ops
19.	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
20.	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
21.	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
22.	Ricardo Sueiras	LinkedIn Twitter	Developer Advocate at AWS	Open Source, Developer Relations, Innovation, Cloud, Mentoring, Education
23.	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
24.	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
25.	Shannon Lal	LinkedIn Twitter	Director, Journey Technical Lead at RBC	Starting in Tech, Job Searching, Web, Dev Ops, React, Tech, NodeJS, Software Engineering
26.	Sriram Thiagarajan	LinkedIn Twitter	Engineering Manager at Chargebee	Starting in Tech, Job Searching, Career, Sabbatical, Software Engineering, Web, React, Tech, NodeJS, Developer Experience, Fitness
27.	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
28.	Wilbur Suero	LinkedIn Twitter	Software Engineer at N/A	Software Engineering, Web, React, Tech, Ruby on Rails, Developer Experience
29.	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..