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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
LinkedIn
Mastodon
DevRel at Dynatrace English CNCF
Feature flagging
Observability
Open source
SCUBA Diving
Teach me something new 
Alessandro Oppedisano LinkedIn Full stack Developer at Pharmercure English
Italian
Angular
Backend
Books and Comics
C#
CSS
Cinema
Dogs and Cats
Frontend
HTML
Java
JavaScript
Job Search
LinkedIn
Music
React
Resume
Starting in Tech
Startup
TypeScript
Vue
Work in italy 
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
Twitter
Solutions Architect at Perficient English Application Development
Job Searching
Mobile
Software Engineering
Starting in Tech
Tech 
Benoît H. Dicaire Website
LinkedIn
Cybersecurity Strategist at Dicaire.com English
French
Compliance
Governance
Information security & privacy
Public speaking
Risk management 
Bob Fornal LinkedIn
Twitter
Senior Solutions Developer II at Leading EDJE, Inc. English Angular
CSS
Frontend
HTML
JavaScript
Job Search
LinkedIn
Personal Branding
React
Resume
Starting in Tech
Vue 
Chris Hiszpanski LinkedIn 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 
Doug Turnbull Website
LinkedIn
Twitter
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
LinkedIn
Senior Integration Developer at EnL Software Integration English .NET
Azure Integration Services
BizTalk
C#
LinkedIn
MVC
Resume
SOA
SQL
VB.NET
WCF
WPF 
Frédéric Harper Website
LinkedIn
Twitter
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 
Guido Penta Website
LinkedIn
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
LinkedIn
Mentoring
Personal branding
Public Speaking
Soft skills
Work in Italy
Work-related topics 
Ivan Pesenti Website
LinkedIn
Twitter
GitHub
Software Engineer at Dectar English
Italian
Anything else
Backend/API
CV/Resume
Databases
Developer Relations
Food
Go
Interviewing
LinkedIn
Linux
Mentoring
Personal Branding
Public speaking
Software Development
Sports
System Design
Technical Writing
Testing
csharp 
Jettro Coenradie Website
LinkedIn
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
LinkedIn
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
LinkedIn
Twitter
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
LinkedIn
Twitter
GitHub
Principal Consultant at Arcturus Labs English AI/LLM Application Development
Community Building
Consulting
Retrieval Technology
The Nature of Consciousness 
John Dietz Website
LinkedIn
Twitter
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
Twitter
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
Twitter
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
Twitter
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
Twitter
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
LinkedIn
Twitter
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
Twitter
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 
Mike Staffa LinkedIn
Twitter
Product Manager at Zeals English Chatbots
Community Building
Cross-Cultural Communication
Japan
Job Search
Nutrition
Personal Branding
Starting in Tech 
Mike Yerou LinkedIn Software Engineer, Co-founder at Pale Blue English
Greek
Android
Company Branding
Developer Experience
Google
Mobile
Software Development
Software Engineering
Startups
Tech
Technology Leadership 
Mohamed Abdul Hameed Website
LinkedIn
Twitter
Software Engineer at 100Devs Agency English Anything else
Devops
JavaScript
Kubernetes
Livestreaming
Religion/Spirituality
Transitioning to tech 
Nicolas Grenié Website
LinkedIn
Twitter
Developer Advocate at Typeform English
French
Spanish
APIs
Automation
Developer Relations
Developer tools
Low code and No code
Product Hunt 
Noah Hall LinkedIn
Twitter
Tech Enabler at Schibsted Media English
Welsh
Backend
Career
Community
Compilers
Culture
Frontend
Mentorship
Open Source
Ops
Programming languages 
Ochuko Onojakpor Website
LinkedIn
Twitter
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
LinkedIn
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 LinkedIn 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 
Rasheed Mudasiru LinkedIn
Twitter
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
Twitter
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
Twitter
Developer Advocate at AWS English Cloud
Developer Relations
Education
Innovation
Mentoring
Open Source 
Richard Moot LinkedIn
Twitter
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
Twitter
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
Twitter
Director, Journey Technical Lead at RBC English Dev Ops
Job Searching
NodeJS
React
Software Engineering
Starting in Tech
Tech
Web 
Simon Emms Website
LinkedIn
Twitter
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
Twitter
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
LinkedIn
GitHub
Cloud-Native Consultant & Trainer at Independent English CV Review
Cloud-Native ecosystem
Everything you want
GitOps
How to manage an interview
LinkedIn
Mentoring
Personal branding
Public Speaking
Soft skills
Work-related topics 
Tobiloba Adedeji Website
LinkedIn
Twitter
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
LinkedIn
Twitter
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
Twitter
Software Engineer at N/A English
Spanish
Developer Experience
React
Ruby on Rails
Software Engineering
Tech
Web 
Zachary Powell LinkedIn
Twitter
Sr Android Developer Advocate at Vonage English Android
DevRel
Developer Relations
Job Searching
Mobile
Software Engineering
Starting in Tech
Tech 

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