18 Go Experts to Follow Online

Go is one of the hottest new programming languages out there today. Sometimes referred to as “golang,” Go is an open source programming language created in 2007 by three Google engineers: Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.

Go was originally positioned as a modern systems language, but, according to New Relic Product Manager Neha Duggal, “Go is growing in popularity as a language for writing microservices thanks to its elegant concurrency model, simple binary deployments, low number of external dependencies, fast performance, and runtime efficiency.”

A creative and passionate community of Go developers and users (“Gophers”) has grown up around the language, and today there are U.S. Go conferences, European Go conferences, Go organizations, Go schools, Go newsletters, Go blogs, Go podcasts, an online Gopher avatar generator (using the original artwork designed by cartoonist Renée French) … even a group for LGBT Gophers (yes, “Gayphers”).

There are also a number of highly knowledgeable and interesting Go experts that any Gopher (or would-be Gopher) should be following online. We’ve gathered 18 of our favorites into the alphabetical list below. If you want to learn more about this very special programming language, and stay on top of the latest news and developments in the world of Go, let these smart people be your guides:

Sarah Adams

Founder of Women Who Go

Website: www.womenwhogo.org

Twitter: @sadams007 & @WomenWhoGo

GitHub: github.com/adams-sarah

Peter Bourgon

Creator of the Go Kit

Website: peter.bourgon.org

Twitter: @peterbourgon

GitHub: github.com/peterbourgon

Johnny Boursiquot

Software engineer and Baltimore Golang organizer

Website: jboursiquot.com

Twitter: @jboursiquot

GitHub: github.com/jboursiquot

Francesc Campoy Flores

Developer advocate at Google

Website: www.campoy.cat

Twitter: @francesc

GitHub: github.com/campoy

Dave Cheney

Developer, Go advocate, and blogger

Blog: dave.cheney.net

Twitter: @davecheney

GitHub: github.com/davecheney

Jaana Dogan

Programmer at Google

Website: rakyll.org

Twitter: @rakyll

GitHub: github.com/rakyll

Alan A. A. Donovan

Member of Google’s Go team, co-author of The Go Programming Language

GitHub: github.com/adonovan

Caleb Doxsey

Author of Introducing Go and An Introduction to Programming in Go

Website: www.doxsey.net

GitHub: github.com/calebdoxsey

Nate Finch

Engineer at Canonical developing Juju using Go, founder of Boston Golang group

Website: npf.io

Twitter: @natethefinch

GitHub: github.com/natefinch

Brad Fitzpatrick

Engineer on Go Language team at Google, original founder of LiveJournal

Website: bradfitz.com

Twitter: @bradfitz

Steve Francia

Technical program manager on Go Language team at Google

Twitter: @spf13

GitHub: github.com/spf13

Blog: spf13.com

Jessie Frazelle

Software engineer and Golang contributor

Blog: blog.jessfraz.com

Twitter: @jessfraz

GitHub: github.com/jessfraz

Kelsey Hightower

Developer Advocate, Google Cloud Platform at Google

Twitter: @kelseyhightower

GitHub: github.com/kelseyhightower

Medium: medium.com/@kelseyhightower

William Kennedy

Go trainer, founder of GoBridge, and co-author of Go in Action

Website: www.goinggo.net

Twitter: @goinggodotnet

GitHub: github.com/goinggo

Brian Ketelsen

Founder and instructor at Gopher Academy, co-author of Go in Action

Twitter: @bketelsen

Blog: www.brianketelsen.com/blog

Carlisia Pinto

Go developer and co-host of Go Time podcast

Twitter: @carlisia

Mat Ryer

Author of Go Programming Blueprints

Twitter: @matryer

GitHub: github.com/matryer

Erik St. Martin

Organizer of GopherCon, co-author of Go in Action, co-host of Go Time podcast

Twitter: @erikstmartin

GitHub: github.com/erikstmartin

More folks to follow

Since we published our initial list, we’ve gotten suggestions from members of the Go community about additional great Go experts out there who should be included. We’re adding them here and will update this list as needed going forward. Thanks for the feedback!

Sameer Ajmani

Software Engineer, manager of Go Language team at Google

Website: sameer.io

Twitter: @Sajma

GitHub: github.com/Sajmani

Russ Cox

Go hacker, tech lead for Go Language team at Google

Website: swtch.com/~rsc

Twitter: @_rsc

GitHub: github.com/rsc

Damian Gryski

Senior developer at Booking.com, Gopher, and frequent contributor to Go subreddit

Twitter: @dgryski

GitHub: github.com/dgryski

Medium: medium.com/@dgryski

Ben Johnson

Go developer and author of Go Walkthrough series

Twitter: @benbjohnson

GitHub: github.com/benbjohnson

Medium: medium.com/@benbjohnson

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Gopher image cc 3.o original by Renée French.