Meet The Team
It takes a lot of work to keep the Fosstodon running. Whether that’s moderating reports, providing advice to moderators, creating and editing documentation, or just keeping the lights on and the wheels turning.
This page lists all the amazing volunteers that keep this ship afloat.
Admins
Admins are responsible for all the stuff that goes on behind the scenes - like responding to DDoS attacks, large influxes of users and working with vendors like Masto.host and Fastly, to improve the service for all our members.
Role: Admin
✨ Projectmanager | Memefluencer | Tech nerd | FOSS enthusiast | DIY's ✨ One of Fosstodon's admins. Committed to keeping the fediverse safe, inclusive and fun. She/her. 🏳️🌈&🏳️⚧️ ally.
Role: Admin
Community Manager for The OpenSearch Project & OpenSearch Software Foundation (at AWS) OpenSource | (opinions are my own) | father | husband | Buddhist | meditation | garage gym powerlifting | minimalism | he/him | Portland
Role: Admin
Moving slow and fixing things. Brandon is a NOC sys admin by day, and aspiring developer by night.
Senior Moderators
Our Senior Moderators play a crucial role in offering support and guidance to the moderation team, in addition to crafting and enhancing the documentation that accompanies Fosstodon, such as our Code of Conduct and moderation guidelines. They are also actively involved in the ongoing development and enhancement of Fosstodon, contributing both technically and within the community, collaborating closely with the founders to ensure the platform’s continued improvement.
Role: Senior Moderator
Ru is a contract web developer from south Asia. She takes pride in supporting Arsenal, and wishes to travel the world one day, meeting all the friends she has made on the fediverse along the way. Her FOSS journey has been ambivalent — switching from FOSS all the things to FOSS when it's comfortable. You can also find more about her on her personal website.
Role: Senior Moderator
Joel is a mechatronics engineer from Mexico, he has embraced a world of hobbies from origami to card tricks, to graphic design and speed-cubing. His journey led him to FOSS, and FOSS led him to more hobbies. He enjoys gaming, manga, books and blogging, a lot. Open to chat anytime, as long as he isn't adding new features to his website.
Moderators
The moderators are the unsung heroes of Fosstodon. They’re the people who work every single report we receive, and take appropriate action to keep Fosstodon a friendly and inclusive place for all our members.
If you’re interested in becoming a moderator, please contact us.
Role: Moderator
I’m here to contribute, assist, & learn more about the FOSS Multiverse and community. Industry Certification CompTIA Security+ Community Support eff - Guardian Member DEFCON33 - Attendee Michael Bazzell - OSIP Training IEEE - Student Member I only approve followers who have engaged with me. PS. My toots autodelete.
Role: Moderator
Programmer and computational neuroscientist, now HPC support engineer in Okinawa, Japan. Photography, bouldering, recreational programming and playing the sanshin are things I do. Sweden, Osaka and Okinawa are places I particularly care about.
Role: Moderator
👨💻 Embedded Software Engineer | FOSS Devotee 🐧 KDE Plasma & openSUSE | 🔒 Fierce Privacy Defender 📍 Southeast Michigan | Hunting for low-level/back-end software positions 🌍 Traveling, hiking, & inline skating Detroit’s vibrant streets | Thriving in nature 🎓 BS in Computer Science | Championing open-source, community, & inclusive tech vibes
Role: Moderator
Hi! I'm Jim Salter, aka mercenary_sysadmin, aka the biggest ZFS stan on the planet. I am *not* Jim Salter, the Associated Press reporter based in Missouri. That's a different guy, and he hides from the Internet.
Role: Moderator
Husband, father, and lover of fine coffee. Whether it’s under the hood, or in a terminal window, I enjoy tinkering with things.
Role: Moderator
Developer, supporter of the free and open source software movement, defender of human rights, of democracy, and of European unity. Développeur, défenseur du mouvement des logiciels libres, défenseur des droits de l'homme, de la démocratie, et de l'unité européenne. Entwickler, Unterstützer der Bewegung für freie und quelloffene Software, Verteidiger der Menschenrechte, der Demokratie, und der europäischen Einigung.
Role: Moderator
A FOSS and selfhosting enthusiast! Software Engineer in the Launchpad team at Canonical. Python Emacs Linux Debian Ubuntu Arch privacy India gaming Post and opinions are my own and not the views of my employer.
Role: Moderator
I was a software engineer for the last 13 years, now in sales. Apart from that, skiing instructor and climbing enthusiat, hobby photographer, cook and bad guitar player.... Also proudly donating to multiple foss projects
Role: Moderator
Free software enthusiast currently working at Epitech Toulouse. I like to program in C/Haskell/Python/Zig. I hate C++. Posts get deleted after 2 weeks for privacy related reasons :3
Role: Moderator
childfree, foss zfs, privacy, selfhosting, hiking, gardening, nature conservancy, EV physicalmedia. Unix and Linux sysadmin turned industrial OT security architect. Forest smallholder. Please fill in your bio before following. When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new. - The Dalai Lama Avatar= ASR coat of arms by Joe Creighton.
Role: Moderator
I was the shadow of the penguin slain By Exchange, Azure, and the Win domain.
Role: Moderator
Building a cooperating system • Born at CO₂ 325 PPM • Proud nerd • On the ADHD and #Autism spectrum 🤘 • 🇸🇪 Kanspiratör 🇬🇧 Canspirator 🇪🇸 [buscando] • YNWA since 1974 For everything not FOSS, Find me as tsvenson on mastodon.online
Founders
Kev and Mike are the founders of Fosstodon. It was their idea to start this whole thing in the first place. They started out simply wanting a vanity handle on the Fediverse, but later decided to open things up to other FOSS and tech enthusiasts. As so, Fosstodon was born.
In April 2025, both Kev and Mike decided to step down in their roles with Fosstodon and have passed the batton over to Gina.
Role: Founder
Kev lives in Wales 🏴 and works in InfoSec. He's a father of 2, husband of 1, and a keeper of dogs, cats, fish, shrimp (yes, shrimp) and chickens. He enjoys web development, collecting watches and motorbikes.
You can usually find him posting on his profile about all manor of uninteresting things and on his personal website.
Role: Founder
Mike is a husband, father, and big nerd. The other co-founder of Fosstodon, he’s probably posting right now about something he’s found on the Internet and thinks is interesting. Loves discussions about free and open source software/hardware, artificial intelligence, and long walks on the beach.