People I think are great and wanna hype up 🙌

• @indirect 💎 — Ruby software engineer. Led Bundler 2014–2025; now co-founder of Spinel.coop and building rv, a fast Ruby toolchain. arko.net
• @tabatkins 🎨 — CSS spec editor on the Google Chrome team; editor of ~50% of CSS specs. xanthir.com
• @jvns 🐧💻 — Go / JavaScript / Python tech educator. Publishes Wizard Zines — approachable zines on Git, terminals, DNS, and Linux internals. jvns.ca
• @dawnwages 🐍🎤 — Python community organizer and DevRel. Ex-PSF Chair, Wagtail core team, DjangoCon organizer; now Lead DevRel at Anaconda. Writing Domain-Driven Django. dawnwages.info
• @zkat 🦀📦 — Rust software engineer — deep past at npm, now at Fastly.
• @seldo 📦🎤 — JavaScript DevRel leader. Co-founder of npm; now Head of DevRel at Arize AI. seldo.com
• @tatianamac 🎤✍️ — Independent engineer, speaker, and writer. Creator of Self-Defined, an open dictionary for identity terminology. tatianamac.com
• @ashedryden 🎤✊ — Programmer, diversity consultant, speaker, and community organizer. Directs AlterConf, co-founded Fund Club. ashedryden.com
• @kefimochi ✨ — JavaScript software engineer with an eye for design. Contributor to this website. kefimochi.com
• @nerdneha 💼 — JavaScript / Python engineering leader. VP of Engineering at GitHub.
• @saraislet 🐍🔐 — Python security engineer. "Insecurity Princess" and Cloud Security Manager at Netflix. sar.ai
• @castpixel 🎨🎮 — Game artist, illustrator, and art director with 20 years in the industry. Clients include Minecraft, Mojang, SEGA, Panic, Hasbro, Unity. castpixel.artstation.com
• @celanthe 🎤 — Go / JavaScript / HCL developer advocate and OSS community builder at MacStadium. Co-leads the CNCF Neurodiversity WG. ckoliver.com
• @komalali 👥🐍 — TypeScript / Python engineering manager at Pulumi; contributor to this website. komalali.github.io
• @cagyirey 🏭 — C# / F# platform engineer in Canada. Fancy rare skillset.
• @mcclure 🎮🎨 — Lua / C# / C game, systems, and experimental-art dev. "Glitch girl." runhello.com
• @Enichan 🎮 — C# / Lua indie game dev. Founder of Kitsune Games — MidBoss (2017), Kitsune Tails (2024).

Demographics 🕵️

Aggregated and rounded with a random offset to protect PII or whatever

• ~80% queer or trans (incl. nonbinary)
• ~70% women
• ~30% POC

Orgs, jobs, & projects where our paths crossed

• 💎 Bundler / Ruby Together — I was a project manager at Ruby Together when @indirect was leading Bundler and RubyGems.
• ✍️ Textio — ex-employer; overlapping tenure with @komalali.
• 🏳️‍🌈 Quirrel / CollectQT — queer tech org I co-founded with @celanthe in 2014–2015.
• 🎤 Write/Speak/Code — 501(c)(3) for technologists of marginalized genders. I organized the Seattle chapter; crossed paths with @nerdneha through it.
• 🛠️ Double Union — feminist hackerspace in SF. Where I met @jvns.
• 🎟️ AlterConf — @ashedryden's diversity-in-tech-and-gaming conference series.