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.

Important: this is not a list to promote your paid services. It is like free as in beer...

• Annaliese Bronz (LinkedIn, ), Software Developer at N/A: Accountability Partner, Goal Setting, Women in Tech, LGBTQ+ in Tech, Friendships, Networking, In-person meetups
• Anthony Dellavecchia (LinkedIn, Twitter), Developer Evangelist, Staff at Twilio: Software Engineering, Developer Relations, Developers Documentation, Community Building, Personal Branding, Starting in Tech, Job Search, Mental Health, Imposter Syndrome
• Baskar Rao Dandlamudi (LinkedIn, Twitter), Solutions Architect at Perficient: Application Development, Starting in Tech, Job Searching, Mobile, Tech, Software Engineering
• Frédéric Harper (LinkedIn, Twitter), Principal Developer Advocate at Kubefirst: Kubefirst, GitOps, DevOps, Software Development, Kubernetes, Cloud & app Architecture, Open-Source, SaaS Architecture, Developer Relations, Developers Documentation, Community Building, Personal Branding, Starting in Tech, Job Search, LinkedIn, Resume, Cats, Coffee, Microbrewery Beer, Travelling, ADHD, Mental Health, Anything else
• Jody Winter (LinkedIn, ), Technical Writer at Affinity Employer Services/Freelancing: Technical Writing, Editing for Clarity and Concision, Writing for End-Users, Structuring Content, Documenting REST APIs, Docs-as-Code, Career Transitions, Skills Development, Freelancing While Fully Employed, Gen X Women in Tech, Working in New Zealand
• Josef Holzmayr (LinkedIn, Twitter), Head of Developer Relations at Northern.tech: Open-Source, Embedded Linux, Yocto, OpenEmbedded, OTA Updates, Developer Relations, IoT, Livecoding, Beer, Heavy Metal, Anything else
• Julien Lengrand-Lambert (LinkedIn, Twitter), Lead Developer Advocate at Adyen: Software Engineering, Developer Relations, Developers Documentation, Community Building, Personal Branding, Starting in Tech, Job Search, Writing, Mentoring, Hiring, Meetups, Kotlin, Anything, really
• Lidia De La Cruz (LinkedIn, Twitter), Consultant Developer|Developer Advocate at Thoughtworks: Starting in Tech, Structuring Content, Networking, Building a Personal Brand, Career Transitions, Skills Development, Imposter Syndrome, Latinx in Tech, Free Resources, POC in Tech
• Maximiliano Rios (LinkedIn, Twitter), Software Engineer at Google: Software Engineering, Networking, Interviewing, Career Transitions, Education Tech, Designing a Project, Latinx in Tech, First Tech Job, College Advise, Job Search, Starting in Tech
• Mike Staffa (LinkedIn, Twitter), Product Manager at Zeals: Cross-Cultural Communication, Community Building, Personal Branding, Starting in Tech, Job Search, Japan, Chatbots, Nutrition
• Rene Pot (LinkedIn, Twitter), Senior Developer Advocate at DHIS2: Open-Source, Low-Code, No-Code, Twitch, Mobile Development, Developer Relations, Coffee, Whisky, Moving Abroad, Casual Conversation
• Ricardo Sueiras (LinkedIn, Twitter), Developer Advocate at AWS: Open Source, Developer Relations, Innovation, Cloud, Mentoring, Education
• Richard Moot (LinkedIn, Twitter), Head of Developer Advocacy at Square @ Block, Inc.: Open-Source, Video, Developer Video, API Design, Developer Relations, Developers Content, Starting in Tech, Job Search, Cats, Coffee, Beer, Travel, Anything else
• Shannon Lal (LinkedIn, Twitter), Director, Journey Technical Lead at RBC: Starting in Tech, Job Searching, Web, Dev Ops, React, Tech, NodeJS, Software Engineering
• Zachary Powell (LinkedIn, Twitter), Sr Android Developer Advocate at Vonage: DevRel, Developer Relations, Android, Starting in Tech, Job Searching, Mobile, Tech, Software Engineering

Add yourself to this list

Do not modify README.md directly: it will be autogenerated. To add your name to this list, you need to add another object to the people array in people.json and send a pull request. See schema.json for the information about the JSON schema.

If you have no idea how all this works, you can simply send me your information by email, and I'll add you to the list myself with pleasure.

Warning: only add yourself to this list!

Remove yourself from this list

Simply create a pull request by removing your people definition from people.json. As for adding yourself to the list if you are not a technical person, just send me an email and I'll do it for you.

Acknowledgements

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