/coffeechat

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.

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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
Adam Gardner Website
LinkedIn
Mastodon
DevRel at Dynatrace English CNCF
Feature flagging
Observability
Open source
SCUBA Diving
Teach me something new 
Anthony Dellavecchia LinkedIn
Twitter
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
Josef Holzmayr LinkedIn
Twitter
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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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Acknowledgements

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