Leader-List.md

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/.
• Adewale Oshineye — Developer Advocate at Google. Co-author of Apprenticeship Patterns.
• 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.
• Ben Linders - Agile Lean Quality & Continuous Improvement, editor @InfoQ.
• 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.
• Camille Fournier — Engineer, CTO, member of the Apache ZooKeeper community. Frequent speaker.
• 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 — 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.
• David Marquet - Author of Turn the Ship Around.
• Duane O'Brien — Open Source Programs Evangelist at PayPal, speaker, advocate of diversity/inclusion.
• Edmond Lau - Engineer & leadership coach. Early engineer @Quip, @Quora, @Ooyala & also ex-@Google. Author of The Effective Engineer: https://www.effectiveengineer.com/book.
• 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.
• Ihor Dvoretskyi - Developer Advocate at Cloud Native Computing Foundation, co-founder and co-lead of the Product Management Special Interest Group at Kubernetes Community.
• Isabel Drost-Fromm — Open Source Strategist at Europace.de, Apache Software Foundation, Berlin Buzzwords founder, frequent speaker and creator of things.
• James Turnbull - CTO @EmpaticoOrg. Previously CTO @kickstarter, OG @docker/@puppetize. Likes tattoos & good food. The Terraform Book http://goo.gl/NnSJpe.
• 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.
• Jen Bunk - People Stack Architect, leadership coach, entrepreneur, iopsych PhD.
• 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.
• Johnathan Nightingale - Tech, Leadership, Dad. Partner @rawsignalgroup, Board @creativecommons, Editor https://mfbt.ca. Former CPO @Hubba, Mr @Firefox.
• 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.
• Kate Matsudaira - entrepreneur, technologist, and creator of https://inkandvolt.com. Writes at katemats.com.
• Karen Sandler — executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, speaker.
• Keith Klain - Software quality activist, professional skeptic with +20 years of industry experience.
• 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.
• Patrick Kua — CTO of @N26, Author of http://thekua.io/evolarch, http://thekua.io/twtl, http://thekua.io/retrobook. Ex-ThoughtWorks.
• 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.
• Rands - VP Engineering at Slack, creator of randsinrepose.com.
• Randy Shoup — VP Engineering at Stitch Fix (former eBay, Google).
• Raphael Crawford-Marks — CEO @Bonusly. Alumnus of @Looksharp, @SquareTrade, @PeaceCorps, @HampshireColg.
• Richard Kasperowski - Great Teams and Results | Agile | Open Space Technology | Core Protocols | CoderDojo. kasperowski.com.
• 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.
• Sasan Goodarzi — CEO at Intuit and Member, Board of Directors at Atlassian
• 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.