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.

Important: this is not a list to promote your paid services. It is like free as in beer...

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
Frédéric Harper (LinkedIn, Twitter), Director of Developer Relations at Mindee: Open-Source, SaaS Architecture, Developer Relations, Developers Documentation, Community Building, Personal Branding, Starting in Tech, Job Search, Cats, Coffee, Microbrewery Beer, Travelling, Mental Health, Anything else
Jody Winter (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
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
Mike Staffa (LinkedIn, Twitter), Product Manager at Zeals: Cross-Cultural Communication, Community Building, Personal Branding, Starting in Tech, Job Search, Japan, Chatbots, Nutrition
Rene Pot (LinkedIn, Twitter), Senior Developer Advocate at Budibase: Open-Source, Low-Code, No-Code, Twitch, Mobile Development, Developer Relations, Coffee, Wisky, 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
Shannon Lal (LinkedIn, Twitter), Director, Journey Technical Lead at RBC: Starting in Tech, Job Searching, Web, Dev Ops, React, Tech, NodeJS, Software Engineering
Zachary Powell (LinkedIn, Twitter), Sr Android Developer Advocate at Vonage: DevRel, Developer Relations, Android, Starting in Tech, Job Searching, Mobile, Tech, Software Engineering

Add yourself to this list

To add your name to this list, you need to add another object to the people array in people.json and send a pull request. See schema.json for the information about the JSON schema.

If you have no idea how all this works, you can simply send me your information by email, and I'll add you to the list myself with pleasure.

Warning: only add yourself to this list!

Remove yourself from this list

Simply create a pull request by removing your people definition from people.json. As for adding yourself to the list if you are not a technical person, just send me an email and I'll do it for you.

People JSON Format Changelog

2022-04-28

add website (String): the full URL of your website or portfolio

2022-04-22

add languages (Array of String): the languages you can use for your coffee chat

2022-04-21

Initial JSON including:

name (String): your full name
title (String): your job title
company (String): the name of the company that you work for. Freelancers can just write freelance
city (String): the city where you live
country (String): the country where you live
linkedin (String): the full URL to your LinkedIn profile
twitter (String): the full URL to your Twitter account
scheduling (String): the full URL to your scheduling platform or a mailto:your@email.com link
online-only (Boolean): true if you are open to meet people in your area in-person
topics (Array of String): all the topics, tech or not, that you would be comfortable to discuss about or even giving tips and sharing your expertise

The properties in bold are required.

Future plans

I put this up quickly, and don't have more time this week to finalize what I had in mind, so here's some things left to do.

Generate a second list by location (when we'll have more people)
Generate a third list by discussion topics (when we'll have more people)
Add GitHub Action for JSON linting & formating
Add GitHub Action for links validation
Create pull request template
Create a CONTRIBUTION.md
Better formatting of the list including languages, website, city & country (suggestions welcome here)

Acknoledgements

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

P.S.: README.md is generated from scripts/TEMPLATE-README.md