IT experts you should follow on twitter
When I read lists like this they always seem to be male dominated, so here is a list of experts I follow which isn’t.
Dr Sue Black OBE
UK Govt Advisor @gdsteam | Tech Evangelist | Hon Prof Comp Sci @UCL | Author @SavingBletchley | Founder @techmumsHQ @BCSWomen | Agents: @NoelGay19 @TobyMundy 39K followers
Saving Bletchley Park "The story of the saving of the home of modern computing by Sue Black"
Tech Mums "Empowering mums, their families and communities through technology"
Sara Rey Chipps
Just a girl, standing in front of a microprocessor, asking it to love her. I made @girldevelopit. I’m making @jewelbots. Pull requests welcomed. 30 K followers
Kelly Sommers
4x Windows Azure MVP & Former 2x DataStax MVP for Apache Cassandra, Backend brat, big data, distributed diva. Relentless learner. I void warranties. 25.7K followers
Julie Lerman
Vermont Geekette, DDD, .NET (& EF) Mentor, Author, MS MVP, MS Regional Director, VTdotNET, Pluralsight, MSDN Mag. Talk to me about mentoring your dev team! 22.5K
The Data Farm "Julie Lerman’s World of Data"
Julie Lerman’s Channel 9 "Julie Lerman is a Microsoft MVP, mentor and consultant who lives in the hills of Vermont. You can find Julie presenting on Entity Framework , Domain-Driven Design and other topics at user groups and conferences around the world"
jessfraz
I contribute to open source software for fun and as my job. 'Weird sun beam of awesome.' http://git.j3ss.co 21.7k followers
jennmoneydollars
my father’s strongest most handsome daughter. i came to win, 19K followers
No one expects the lady code troll "@jennschiffer’s hilarious talk on how and why she satirizes the tech industry." - @xoxo
Iris Classon
The world’s happiest .NET developer & Microsoft C# MVP! More energy than a 5 year old, talks more than your grandmother, and does anything to make you smile! 18.7K followers
Jessica Kerr
Functional developer, speaker, mother, crazy nut. Stripe. Learning and growing. All tweets are mine, licensed CC0. she/her. 16.6K followers
Jen Myers
Technologist & writer. Curriculum director at @pluralsight. Advisor at @girldevelopit. Founder of @codecupcakeschi. Likes adventure, changing the world, otters. 15.7K followers
Lucy Leiderman
Funnier than you’d expect. Full-stack growth marketer. Building @helloretreaver. Scrum master. I have 5 minutes, come say hi. 13.2K followers
Femgineer
We empower techies and provide courses and workshops to: educate, empower, and encourage professionals in the high-tech industry. 10K followers
Caitie McCaffrey
Backend Brat & Distributed Systems Diva @twitter Formerly #343i building @Halo Services with @projectorleans. Valkyrie AF. 9.7K followers
Trisha Gee
Coder/blogger/speaker, working for JetBrains. Human. More or less. 7.7K followers
Jen Golbeck
Prof at Univ. of MD., Computer Scientist. Tweets about social media, research, zombies. My new book is Social Media Investigation -how to track people online! 5.9K followers
Yara M H Senger
Yara is President of SouJava and co-founder and director of GlobalCode, the largest Java training company in Latin America, currently based in 13 different cities. 5.7K followers
Maxime Chevalier
PhD in compiler design, dynamic languages and optimization. Interested in programming languages, graphics, electronics, music and DIY. All opinions are my own. 4.7K followers
Maxime Chevalier’s Blog "Pointers Gone Wild A blog about compilers, programming and technology."
fabianenardon
Data Scientist, Java Champion and impossible projects expert. Founder of http://toolscloud.com and partner at http://tailtarget.com 4.1K followers
Susan Potter
Post-postmodern infrastructure engineer (Scala, Haskell, Nix) obsessed with finance, Charlotte Brontë, bad pop, and abstract algebra. 4.0K followers
script kitty
I write the softest software you’ve ever touched @uber engineering. I wanna be an indie game dev when I grow up. oh, and kelly is my middle name 4.0K followers
Stacey Mason
Researcher/creator of games & playable stories. Twitch critic. Contributor: @cerebralarcade, @ScholarsPlay, @igdafoundation Prev: @zynga, @eastgate 3.8K followers
wendydevolder
Helping #community learn and share skills to write better software by producing talks, conferences, magazine, workshops, skillscasts on #agile #opensource 3.7 K followers
What is Skills Matter Wendy Devolder is the CEO of Skills Matter.
Mathilde Lemee
CoFounder @SoFizzApp - L’appli pour partager tes activités à proximité avec de nouvelles personnes ! CoFounder @duchessfr - Réseau de femmes devs 2.8K followers
Duchess France - Women in Tech "Mathilde Rigabert Lemée [is a] co-founder and active member of Duchess France"
Andrea McAts
All tweets about Programming. For everything else @roundcrisis 2.7K followers
Tiffany Conroy
Interaction designer. Developer. Cutter of bullshit. Made @weareallawesome. Micro diary: @whattiffanydid. she/her. Has strong opinions, loosely held.
Karen Catlin
Advocate for women in tech. Leadership coach, TEDx speaker, co-author of Present! Board member @TheCLUBSV. Former VP @Adobe. Happy mom. 2.6K followers
Karen Catlin’s Home Page "Advocating for women in the tech industry"
Ludwine Probst
Data Engineer / Scientist 💻 open source contributor @@ousmotards 🏍 @L@diesCodeParis co-founder 🌍 Tech blogger #TechBeyondBorders 2.6K followers
Amira LAKHAL
#Agile #Java #Scala #Developer at @Valtech_fr || one of @duchessfr leaders || running addict #WomenInTech #yesWeCode
1+K followers
Claude Falguière
Java, Performance, DevOps, Clojure, DataScience, funny ways to learn programming, Devoxx4Kids, ParisJUG, Devoxx, Duchess
Stéphanie Hertrich
Developer Evangelist Girl @Microsoft, Technical Angel for #startup ❤️, I’m a coder and a speaker for Tech event, Proud @duchessfr
Agnès Crepet
Java Champion & JS Newbie, @ninjasquad Co-Founder, @MINES_StEtienne CS Teacher & Agile Learning Facilitator, @mixIT_lyon Co-Founder, @duchessfr Leader
Heather VanCura
Community Builder, Connector, Java Connoisseur (for JCP tweets see @jcp_org); Women & Girls in Tech, Open Source, Fitness, Fashion, Fun.
Aysylu Greenberg
Programmer, Artist, Lifelong Learner, distributed infrastructure @google
Holly Cummins
IBMer, developer, author, hat-hacker and duvet-cover-maker. My views are my own.
Kasia Mrowca
Product magician, IT passionate, agile & lean enthusiast, PhD candidate, conference junkie. Love skiing and hiking :)
Katia Aresti
Freelance Developer, Open-source enthusiast, drama and dance passionate. @duchessfr Paris MUG
Monica Beckwith
(Java/JVM/GC) performance consultant. Mother of 2 awesome kids. Enjoys country living. Java community editor for InfoQ.
Anne Gabrillagues
Agile coach / CSM / CSPO at @ippontech - interested in everything about #agile #lean #designThinking #devops #ux … - member of @LeanKanbanFr team
Amelia Eiras
Ecuatoriana-Española-American, #badass #usualsuspect #iloveourITcommunity. Brutal honesty trumps hypocritical politeness. The backbone @Tomitribe
| For now, I have limited the list to those with at least 1000 followers, but I will continue to update it. |