Jeff Atwood

Jeff Atwood has spent his career building places where developers learn together at scale. He co-founded Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network, transforming Q&A into a global, searchable knowledge base that reshaped how programmers solve problems. He later co-founded Discourse, an open-source discussion platform used by companies, open-source projects, and public communities to host high-signal conversations on the modern web. Jeff is also the author of the influential Coding Horror blog, known for pragmatic (and occasionally contrarian) perspectives on software engineering, product decisions, and the incentives that shape human behaviour online. His work sits at the intersection of technology and community: how you design systems that are not only technically scalable, but socially sustainable, especially as AI changes how we search, learn, and collaborate.