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Leader List

Leaders and thinkers who frequently write/speak/tweet about tech leadership and work culture from a humble, progressive, well-rounded point of view. Names link to Twitter feeds.

  • Adam Tornhill — Programmer, psychologist, Lisp hacker, author and speaker. Founder of Empear and https://codescene.io/.
  • Adrian Cockcroft — VP of Cloud Architecture at AWS, formerly Battery Ventures, Netflix, eBay, and Sun, frequent speaker, microservices thought leader.
  • Adrian Trenaman — CTO at Gilt/Hudson's Bay, speaker, energetic leader.
  • Andrea Goulet — CEO @corgibytes. Founder http://LegacyCode.Rocks. Coder, communicator, mama.
  • Andrea Tomasini — Enterprise Agile Coach (CEC) and Trainer (CST), a linchpin, an opinion maker, a follower, a leader.
  • Angie Jones — Automation Engineer @twitter, international speaker, certified Java programmer, master inventor, advocate of women and minorities in tech.
  • Anil Dash — CEO of @fogcreek, "doing my best to make tech a little more humane and ethical."
  • Anjuan Simmons — Technical Program Manager, speaker, writer, storyteller.
  • April Wensel — Founder of Compassionate Coding (@compassioncode), software developer, speaker, writer.
  • Aviran Mordo — Developer, Tech junky, Continuous Delivery Expert, Advocate of Dev Centric Culture and Head of Engineering @ Wix.
  • Boaz Sender — Director of Research at @Bocoup, with JS Foundation. Curating at @galleryopen, @mobiusartists board.
  • Brene Brown — Researcher. Storyteller.
  • Bridget Kromhout — Principal Technologist for @cloudfoundry at @pivotal. Podcasts @arresteddevops. Organizes @devopsdays. Was ops at @DramaFever.
  • Charity Majors — Engineer/CEO at @honeycombio, formerly Parse/Facebook, frequent speaker.
  • Carol Willing — Director, @ThePSF. @projectjupyter core dev. @calpoly research engineer. @fablabsd Geek in Res. @MITSloan @DukeU alum.
  • Chris Aniszczyk — Building @CloudNativeFdn @OCI_ORG / Open Source Pragmatist.
  • [Cindy Gallop[(https://twitter.com/cindygallop) — the Michael Bay of business.
  • Dan North — Optimizer of organizations, teams and software, programmer, Agile coach, technologist, troublemaker.
  • Danese Cooper — Open Source and InnerSource at PayPal. Fequent speaker, writer.
  • Daniel Bryant — biz/dev/qa/ops, teacher, student, traveller, runner, CTO @SpectoLabs, @InfoQ editor, @DevoxxUK, @oscon, @ContainerSched, @jaxlondon.
  • Dave Lester — Open source at Apple. Interested in where tech and communities intersect.
  • Duane O'Brien — Open Source Programs Evangelist at PayPal, speaker, advocate of diversity/inclusion.
  • Elisabeth Hendrickson — VP R&D, Data at @pivotal. Into radical collaboration and fast feedback.
  • Erica Joy Baker — Senior Engineer at Slack Technologies and advocate for diversity and inclusion in tech, and expanding access to tech education.
  • Francesc Campoy — Señor Developer Advocate for @GoogleCloud, Gopher, Catalan, Gaygler - perennial learner of things. One half of @GCPPodcast.
  • Gregory Brown — Author of the O'Reilly book "Programming Beyond Practices."
  • Gregory Mazurek — Engineering leader at CapitalOne. Speaker, enthusiast.
  • Heather Fleming — Agile Evangelist, Product & PMO Exec, Myers-Briggs Coach and a Voice for Women in Tech.
  • Helena Edelson — Distributed Systems, Big Data & Infra Engineer @Apple. Speaker. FP, Scala, Intelligent self healing systems. Streaming. Cassandra MVP.
  • Henrik Kniberg — agile coach, led lots of Spotify's efforts and documented them for the world to learn from, author.
  • Isabel Drost-Fromm — Open Source Strategist at Europace.de, Apache Software Foundation, Berlin Buzzwords founder, frequent speaker and creator of things.
  • Jamie Allen — Noted Lambda hater. Author of Effective Akka, contributor to Reactive Design Patterns. Engineering Head at Starbucks, formerly of Lightbend.
  • Jan Lehnardt — Makes @couchdb @hoodiehq @jsconfeu @greenkeeperio & #offlinefirst Dissatisfied with the status-quo.
  • Jason Fried — Founder & CEO at http://basecamp.com. Co-author of Getting Real, Remote, and NYT Bestseller REWORK.
  • Jeff Gothelf — Author: http://www.leanuxbook.com and http://senseandrespond.co. Digital transformation, product skills-building, org agility. NL: http://eepurl.com/cn14af.
  • Jerome Petazzoni — Docker, containers, frequent speaker, better writer than he might realize, connector.
  • Jerry Colonna — Coach and CEO @RebootHQ.
  • Jessica McKellar — Startup founder, engineering director at Dropbox, Python Software Foundation.
  • Jez Humble — Co-author of Continuous Delivery, Lean Enterprise, DevOps Handbook. CTO @devops_research, lecturer @UCBerkeley, ex- @18F.
  • Joe Goldberg — Founding Father of this List.
  • Joel Spolsky — CEO of Stack Overflow, co-founder of Fog Creek Software (Glitch, FogBugz), and creator of Trello. NYC gay techie.
  • John Allspaw — Former CTO, Etsy. Dad. Author. Guitarist. Student of sociotechnical systems, human factors, and cognitive systems engineering.
  • John Arundel — Helps with devops, Puppet, Docker, etc. Ally. Author, The Puppet Beginner's Guide: http://amzn.to/2sJYLvc.
  • Josh Simmons — Google open source, @opensourceorg director/CFO, @librariesio and @utos advisor.
  • Julie Zhuo — Product design VP @ Facebook.
  • Juliet Funt — CEO WhiteSpace at Work.
  • Kate Heddleston — Engineer, leader, frequent speaker on onboarding, people management, and how to build web applications.
  • Karen Sandler — executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, speaker.
  • Kellan Elliott-McCrea — Fixing healthcare @ Blink Health. Previously CTO at Etsy, Flickr Architect. Technical solutions for social problems.
  • Kelsey Hightower — Open Source advocate at Google, frequent speaker, minimalist.
  • Lara Hogan — Author of Demystifying Public Speaking, and Designing for Performance.
  • Linda Rising — Agile 75-year-old world traveler, interested in patterns and change and retrospectives and how the brain works.
  • Mackenzie Kosut — Global Startup Evangelist for @AWSCloud. Formerly helped build @betterment, @oscarhealth, @tumblr, @mtv, and more.
  • Martin Fowler — Programmer, Loud Mouth, ThoughtWorker.
  • Mary Poppendieck — Author of Lean Software Development, Implementing Lean Software Development, Leading Lean Software Development, and The Lean Mindset.
  • Mathias Meyer — CEO of Travis CI, frequent speaker and writer.
  • Meri Williams — CTO @MOO, Speaker, Author. Co-curator & host @TheLeadDev. Advisor @wearethekindred.
  • Michael Bryzek — Cofounder and CTO Flow.io. Co-founder and ex-CTO Gilt Groupe. Masters in CS from MIT.
  • Michael Feathers — Director, R7K Research & Conveyance, author, speaker.
  • Mikio Braun — Delivery Lead at Zalando, helping search teams to become more autonomous and ownership-driven. Data scientist, frequent conference speaker.
  • Nithya Ruff — Open source at Comcast; @linuxfoundation & @codechix BOD.
  • Olaf Lewitz — The Trust Artist. CEC & @trusttemenos host.
  • Oren Ellenbogen — VP Engineering at Forter, curator of awesomeness at http://softwareleadweekly.com, author of http://leadingsnowflakes.com.
  • Phil Calçado — Does things for @DigitalOcean. In the past, did things for @SoundCloud and @ThoughtWorks.
  • Philip Guo — Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science - UC San Diego - human-computer interaction, online learning, computing education
  • Rachel Davies — Lead Engineer at Makers Academy. Past practitioner of eXtreme Programming (XP) at Unruly. Co-author of "Agile Coaching" book.
  • Randy Shoup — VP Engineering at Stitch Fix (former eBay, Google).
  • Raphael Crawford-Marks — CEO @Bonusly. Alumnus of @Looksharp, @SquareTrade, @PeaceCorps, @HampshireColg.
  • Ryan Burgess — Software Engineering Manager at @Netflix. Lover of #JavaScript! The Canadian voice on the @FrontEndHH podcast.
  • Sandi Metz — Cyclist, Rubyist, reluctant author (http://poodr.com), obsessive programmer, recalcitrant blogger.
  • Sandro Mancuso — Software craftsman @codurance, author of The Software Craftsman, speaker, founder of the London Software Craftsmanship Community.
  • Sarah Mei — Software dev, founder of @railsbridge, Director of Ruby Central, Chief Consultant of @devmyndsoftware.
  • Sarah Sharp — @ottertechllc founder. Diversity & inclusion consultant. Community metrics data miner. @outreachy admin.
  • Simon Wardley — Corporate cartographer, chaotic evil, destroyer of undeserved value.
  • Steve Francia — Golang team at Google, Drupal Board Member, author, speaker, developer, creator of @gohugoio, Cobra and spf13-vim, formerly of Docker and MongoDB.
  • Steven Sinofsky — Board Partner @a16z, adviser @BoxHQ.
  • Susan J. Fowler — Editor in Chief of @IncrementMag. Founder of @susansbookclub. The woman who started Uber's internal cultural reformation through her immense courage.
  • Theo Schlossnagle — Founder and CEO at Circonus. Founder of SparkPost and OmniTI.
  • Thomas Lockney — Engineering Manager @Nike. Host of the Nike Tech Talks. Ally.
  • VM (Vicky) Brasseur — Author, speaker, and consultant for open source, technology, community, business, and the intersections between them.
  • Zach Holman — Founder, @duringapp. Previously: @github, @gild. advising: @gitlab, @stackshareio, @dockbit.