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Top 25 US Tech Influencers

Phone reviews and AI explainers now pull bigger US audiences than most legacy tech press.

This list gathers 25 American tech creators on Instagram, from gadget reviewers and Android specialists to software engineers, AI educators, and tech-comedy accounts.

What ties them together is craft over hype: most break down what a product or model actually does, which is why their followers stay and keep watching.

Denis GolubevDenis Golubev4 min readLast updated: 16 Jun 2026

How this list was built

A public shortlist from the ClickAnalytic creator database

ClickAnalytic tracks 400M+ creator profiles. We found 8,316 profiles matching this ranking and selected 25 for the public shortlist; inside the platform you can search the full set, compare audience quality and unlock verified contacts.

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The ranking

US tech creators engage 3.7x more than average

Across the 8,316 US tech creators we track, audiences engage about 3.7x more per post than a typical account of the same size, and their followers read as about 81% real on average.

Carter Smith
#1
Carter SmithMega
930.8K
Followers
1.84%
Engagement rate
451.3K
Avg views
$5.9K-12.2K
Typical $/post

making tech less of a snooze fest

Audience location
US58.0%
19.0%
Average: some noise
fake followers / suspicious accounts

Best for: Consumer tech reviews at scale. Carter Smith built the largest following here by making everyday tech feel light rather than technical. At 930.8k followers he is the reach pick for a phone, laptop, or gadget launch that needs a wide consumer audience.

Kyle Krueger
#2
Kyle KruegerMega
778.1K
Followers
3.75%
Engagement rate
617.6K
Avg views
$5.9K-12.2K
Typical $/post

Discovering the coolest things 🌍‼️ Business 📧:

Audience location
US51.0%
25.0%
Poor: high risk
fake followers / suspicious accounts

Best for: Gadget discovery and cool products. Kyle Krueger leans into discovering new and unusual products, which suits launches that want a sense of novelty. His engagement runs well above the typical large account, so his audience reacts more than reach alone suggests.

Chris Boden
#3
Chris BodenMega
700.4K
Followers
1.59%
Engagement rate
165.4K
Avg views
$5.9K-12.2K
Typical $/post

Chris Boden is a passionate polymath. A professional weirdo with dangerous toys and weaponized working to educate, inspire, and entertain.

Audience location
US45.0%
17.0%
Average: some noise
fake followers / suspicious accounts

Best for: Maker and hands-on hardware. Chris Boden is a maker and educator who works with hardware and builds, useful when a brand wants demonstration over talking-head review. His audience reads as strongly real for an account this size.

Germy Ballswell
#4
Germy BallswellMacro
486.4K
Followers
2.15%
Engagement rate
400.7K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post

sound and aerodynamics experiments. files and info in the link 👇👇👇

Audience location
US41.0%
19.0%
Average: some noise
fake followers / suspicious accounts

Best for: Science and engineering experiments. Germy Ballswell runs sound and aerodynamics experiments, so he fits hardware, components, and brands that benefit from a visible test. Good when you want a product shown working, not just described.

Emma Steuer
#5
Emma SteuerMacro
484.2K
Followers
1.14%
Engagement rate
147.9K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post

Inside the companies building the future Software Engineer & Investor SF & NYC 👩‍💻 ✈️

Audience location
US52.0%
2.0%
Good: clean audience
fake followers / suspicious accounts

Best for: Engineering and startup audiences. Emma Steuer is a software engineer and investor who covers the companies building new tech. With about 98% of her followers reading as real, she is a credible fit for developer tools and B2B tech.

Constantin Kogan
#6
Constantin KoganMacro
463.6K
Followers
1.03%
Engagement rate
66.1K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post

🔥 Founder & GP at @holisticapital 🧭Exploring markets, technology, and human behavior 🎙️ Host: Holistic Investment Podcast 🏗️ Build smart. Stay human.

Audience location
US45.0%
29.0%
Poor: high risk
fake followers / suspicious accounts

Best for: Founder and investor audiences. Constantin Kogan is a founder and investor exploring markets and technology, which points to a business-tech audience. Best for fintech, frontier-tech, and products aimed at operators rather than consumers.

Andrew Tattersall
#7
Andrew TattersallMacro
456.3K
Followers
1.80%
Engagement rate
190.8K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post

tech| ai| code| life 👾 software engineer building @thepolymathapp 📁 telling stories through technology

Audience location
US34.0%
5.0%
Good: clean audience
fake followers / suspicious accounts

Best for: Developer and AI tooling. Andrew Tattersall is a software engineer who tells stories through code, AI, and app building. His audience reads as about 95% real, making him a clean fit for developer tools and AI products.

Parker Burton
#8
Parker BurtonMacro
448.0K
Followers
2.59%
Engagement rate
207.4K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post

That Android Guy

Audience location
US44.0%
17.0%
Average: some noise
fake followers / suspicious accounts

Best for: Android and phone launches. Parker Burton is known as That Android Guy, a clear specialism that matters when platform fit decides a campaign. He is the obvious choice for Android phones, accessories, and apps over a general reviewer.

Kaitlynd McQueen
#9
Kaitlynd McQueenMacro
412.0K
Followers
4.65%
Engagement rate
506.2K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post

ex apple employee 🍎 (not affiliated) a lil this a lil that 😸 blame the 📧:

Audience location
US76.0%
29.0%
Poor: high risk
fake followers / suspicious accounts

Best for: Apple and consumer tech takes. Kaitlynd McQueen brings an ex-Apple background to a personable consumer-tech account. Her engagement sits well above the norm for her size, so her smaller-feeling audience is unusually responsive.

Ryan
#10
407.4K
Followers
2.95%
Engagement rate
349.3K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post

I break down the tech and AI shifts that actually matter - what’s worth your money, what’s hype, and what to do next Brands:

Audience location
US46.0%
22.0%
Average: some noise
fake followers / suspicious accounts

Best for: AI and what-to-buy guidance. Ryan focuses on the tech and AI shifts that matter and what to actually do about them, which suits brands that want a recommendation framing. Strong when a campaign needs a clear buy-or-skip verdict.

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Joe Cirillo (Rillo)
#11
Joe Cirillo (Rillo)Macro
356.7K
Followers
1.31%
Engagement rate
106.3K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 35.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 22.0%Average: some noise

Atlanta making tech more fun

Best for: Approachable, fun tech.

Joe Cirillo makes tech more fun out of Atlanta, a good fit for consumer brands that want a friendly, non-intimidating tone. Best for mainstream products rather than deeply technical audiences.

Jason Yeager
#12
Jason YeagerMacro
355.2K
Followers
36.89%
Engagement rate
1.6M
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 49.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 3.0%Good: clean audience

🌐 Tech Comedy & Insights 📈 Building a $1B+ fully AI-run company 📍 Founder & Investor in San Francisco

Best for: Tech comedy and founder angle.

Jason Yeager pairs tech comedy with a founder-and-investor identity, useful when a launch wants humour with a business edge. His audience reads as almost entirely real, so the response feels trustworthy.

liv grant♡
#13
liv grant♡Macro
313.4K
Followers
1.88%
Engagement rate
92.5K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 30.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 25.0%Poor: high risk

💻 your go to girl for TECH 𐙚♡ 👩🏻‍🎓 Dr, PhD in bioinformatics 🌸 email: 🎙️ co-host of @soculturedpodcast

Best for: Science-credible tech. liv grant covers tech with a bioinformatics PhD behind it, a rare blend of approachable and credentialed. Good for brands that want science credibility without a dry, academic tone.

Alberta Tech
#14
Alberta TechMacro
285.4K
Followers
2.34%
Engagement rate
271.7K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 34.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 15.0%Average: some noise

🤖 Tech comedy & AI hot takes 🗽 NYC 📧

Best for: AI hot takes and comedy.

Alberta Tech runs tech comedy and AI takes from NYC, built for launches that need to travel through humour. Best when you want reach and shareability around an AI or product moment.

Sarah Grace
#15
Sarah GraceMacro
268.9K
Followers
1.47%
Engagement rate
105.7K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 67.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 20.0%Average: some noise

Making Tech Unboxings Fun 📲 📦 NYC 📍3.5M on YouTube 🎥

Best for: Unboxings and product reveals.

Sarah Grace makes tech unboxings fun and points to a 3.5M YouTube following, so she is a strong reveal-and-first-impressions partner. Useful when the look and feel of a product is the story.

will bowers
#16
will bowersMacro
252.0K
Followers
1.61%
Engagement rate
85.8K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 56.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 23.0%Average: some noise

the best hidden gems in tech My Links 🔻

Best for: Hidden-gem product picks. will bowers surfaces lesser-known tech, a fit for smaller brands and tools that need discovery rather than mass awareness. Best for products that benefit from a curated, find-this framing.

Rich Rosales
#17
Rich RosalesMacro
224.5K
Followers
3.37%
Engagement rate
211.6K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 58.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 22.0%Average: some noise

The Rich Tech Friend 👨‍💻🤵‍♂️ 📧

Best for: Friendly buying advice.

Rich Rosales positions himself as the rich tech friend who helps people buy well, with engagement above the typical account his size. Good for consumer brands that want a trusted-recommendation tone.

Trisha Hershberger
#18
Trisha HershbergerMacro
211.6K
Followers
1.80%
Engagement rate
109.7K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 63.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 25.0%Poor: high risk

TV Host| Tech| Gamer| Creator| Mom 📺 Prime Video & AmazonLive 🎮 #Twitch & #YouTube /TrishaHershberger 📍 Los Angeles, CA

Best for: Hosted tech and crossover reach.

Trisha Hershberger is a tech and gaming TV host as well as a creator, which adds polish and cross-platform reach. Best when a campaign wants a presenter-style partner rather than a raw reviewer.

Tracketpacer
#19
TracketpacerMacro
200.7K
Followers
1.13%
Engagement rate
57.0K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 44.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 17.0%Average: some noise

🚀rockit network engineer 👩🏼‍💻ethernet fangirl 🛜 weird use cases & silly tech! 💌

Best for: Networking and infrastructure.

Tracketpacer is a network engineer who makes niche networking content approachable, reaching a technical audience most consumer creators miss. The clear fit for developer tools, cloud, and infrastructure brands.

lindsey ♡
#20
lindsey ♡Macro
191.4K
Followers
1.01%
Engagement rate
41.0K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 77.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 22.0%Average: some noise

That tech girl ♡ 820k+ on tiktok biz: ‎

Best for: Aesthetic, everyday tech. lindsey covers tech with an everyday, design-led angle and notes 820k+ on TikTok, so she suits lifestyle-tech crossovers. Best for consumer products where look and usability lead the pitch.

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Morgan DeBaun
#21
Morgan DeBaunMacro
190.2K
Followers
1.05%
Engagement rate
17.9K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 84.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 27.0%Poor: high risk

📍Founder @blavityinc @afro.tech 🧠 Helping you use Tech for Biz & Life 📈Bestselling author• Speaker Work with our brands⬇️

Best for: Tech for business and founders.

Morgan DeBaun is the founder of Blavity and AfroTech and frames tech for business and life. Best for B2B, founder-audience, and professional-development brands rather than gadget launches.

Camille Bergin
#22
Camille BerginMacro
163.5K
Followers
1.36%
Engagement rate
93.0K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 34.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 22.0%Average: some noise

🛰️ Space engineer ➡️ tech storyteller ☀️ Chief Marketing Officer @starcatcherind 🚀 Space tech, business, & policy partnerships:

Best for: Space and deep-tech storytelling.

Camille Bergin is a space engineer turned tech storyteller, a fit for aerospace, deep-tech, and brands that want a science-forward narrative. Distinct from the consumer reviewers on this list.

Arrion Knight | Computer Science
#23
Arrion Knight | Computer ScienceMacro
161.3K
Followers
1.15%
Engagement rate
43.1K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 94.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 15.0%Average: some noise

CS @ Pvamu Business: B.S Computer Science 🎓📜

Best for: Coding and CS education.

Arrion Knight makes computer-science content with a strong, real-reading audience, useful for developer tools, bootcamps, and learning brands. Best for reaching students and early-career engineers.

Cedrick Plamo
#24
Cedrick PlamoMacro
154.8K
Followers
2.58%
Engagement rate
72.8K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 61.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 19.0%Average: some noise

Tech| Lifestyle 📸 🇵🇭 📍 Houston

Best for: Tech and lifestyle crossover.

Cedrick Plamo blends tech with lifestyle out of Houston, a fit for consumer brands that want product content inside a daily-life frame. Best when the device fits naturally into routine, not a spec sheet.

Matt Johansen
#25
Matt JohansenMacro
154.2K
Followers
1.19%
Engagement rate
55.5K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 88.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 12.0%Good: clean audience

Founder of @vulnu_com Long Island elder emo surviving in ATX 👇Join over 34k pros who get my weekly newsletter at vulnu.com

Best for: Security and pro audiences.

Matt Johansen is a security founder who runs a newsletter for thousands of professionals, with about 88% of followers reading as real. The clear fit for cybersecurity and developer-focused B2B.

Niche analytics

Who's on this list

These are individual US tech creators, not brand pages or news outlets. The list runs from people who started as gadget reviewers and unboxers to working software and network engineers, an ex-Apple voice, a bioinformatics PhD, AI explainer accounts, and a few who built large followings on tech comedy.

Most publish to teach or to react to a launch, and several point to much larger YouTube or TikTok followings in their bios, so their Instagram presence is usually one surface of a wider creator business. The blocks below cover what they post, the kinds of brands that fit, and how this shortlist compares with the wider US Instagram pool.

55%
avg US tech audience
3.3%
avg engagement rate
81%
avg real audience
$2.6K-5.7K
estimated price per post

ClickAnalytic pricing model, how we worked this out

What they post
Gadget reviewsUnboxingsAI explainersCoding and build contentTech comedyLaunch reactionsBuying advice
Who they are

Gadget reviewers

Creators who test phones, laptops, and consumer hardware and turn it into buying advice.

Engineers who explain

Working software, network, and ML engineers translating how things are built for a general audience.

AI educators

Accounts focused on making AI tools and concepts usable for people outside the field.

Tech-comedy creators

Accounts that carry tech and AI takes through humour and short-form sketches.

Maker and science voices

Inventors and experiment-led creators who show hardware, electronics, and physical builds.

Industry insiders

Founders and operators sharing what is happening inside the companies building new tech.

Creator sizes

Nano

Emerging creators · 1K-10K

0 in this list

Micro

High-efficiency creators · 10K-50K

0 in this list

Mid + Macro

Scale creators · 50K-500K

22 in this list

Mega

Celebrity-level creators · 500K+

3 in this list

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Brand fit

Best brand fits for US tech influencers

Tech creators fit a narrower band of brands than lifestyle accounts, so read these as content-led inferences from bios, not proof of past deals.

Consumer electronics and phones
Best fit

The reviewers and unboxers on this list already build content around hardware and buying decisions.

Software, apps, and AI tools
Best fit

Several creators are engineers or AI educators whose audiences come for product walkthroughs.

Developer tools and cloud
Strong

The engineer accounts reach a technical audience that evaluates infrastructure and tooling.

Accessories, peripherals, and gear
Strong

Setup, desk, and gadget content makes peripherals a natural fit for the review-led accounts.

Online learning and courses
Good

The educator and coding voices already teach, so skill and course brands sit close to their content.

Fintech and B2B SaaS
Niche

The founder and operator voices reach a business-tech audience open to workflow products.

Recommendations are inferred from creator bios and content themes, not invented sponsorship history.

Proprietary data

The US tech creator economy in numbers

The signals below describe the 25 creators shown. For context, across all US Instagram creators in ClickAnalytic's Creator Economy Report 2026 (data: December 2025), only 39% clear a 75%-real-audience bar and 28.8% have a prior brand deal, so this shortlist sits in the top of that pool on audience quality.

3.7x
Engagement vs platform average
81%
Average real audience
9.1M
Combined reach of the shortlist
Engagement-rate distribution
% of creators above each threshold
100.0%
Above 1%
16.0%
Above 3%
4.0%
Above 6%
Reach - average reel views
% of creators above each views threshold
88.0%Over 50k
60.0%Over 100k
28.0%Over 250k
Audience quality
share of real, credible followers
81.0%mostly real audience
Good
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Across the 25 US tech creators shown here, audiences engage about 3.7 times more per post than a typical Instagram account of the same size, and their followers read as about 81% real on average. We track 8,316 US tech creators in total. For context, across all US Instagram creators in ClickAnalytic's Creator Economy Report 2026 (data: December 2025), only 39% clear a 75%-real-audience bar, so this shortlist sits in the top of that pool.

ClickAnalytic creator database (live) ·

Most of these accounts are individuals, not brands, and many describe much larger audiences elsewhere: several point to YouTube or TikTok followings well into the hundreds of thousands or millions, which means their Instagram number understates their true reach.

The list splits between creators who review and react to consumer hardware and those who build it or explain how it works, including several working software, network, and machine-learning engineers. That divide is the most useful way to brief them: reviewers for awareness, engineers and educators for credibility with a technical audience.

Our verdict

This shortlist is strongest for launches and product education: hardware reviewers and unboxers for consumer electronics, engineer and AI-educator accounts for software and developer tools, and the tech-comedy voices when you want a launch to travel.

If you are staffing one campaign, start with the gadget reviewers for reach and the engineer and educator accounts for credibility with a technical audience. The 25 here are a hand-checked preview. We track 8,316 US tech creators on Instagram in total, and the full slice is where you filter by audience location, real-follower score, and verified contact before you reach out.

Methodology

How we selected these creators

How we picked this shortlist.

Eligibility: individual US tech creators on Instagram whose audience reads as meaningfully US-based.

We kept gadget reviewers, software and network engineers, AI educators, tech-comedy creators, and maker or science voices, and removed tech-product brands, gadget and PC retailers, repair shops, AI-news and pop-culture aggregator pages, and wrong-niche accounts such as music, fashion, and finance creators that the topic pull swept in.

Selection: the topic classifier plus a manual spot-check dropped non-creator and off-niche accounts (product brands, retail and repair businesses, news and aggregator pages, and music or fashion accounts) before ranking.

Data source: the live ClickAnalytic creator database, which tracks 8,316 US tech creators on Instagram.

Ranking signals: follower reach, engagement rate, and audience quality (the share of followers that read as real).

Filters: active accounts posting within the last 30 days, with a real-audience floor and engagement floor applied before ranking.

Scope: the 25 creators shown are a hand-checked preview. Every metric on this page describes that shortlist unless it is explicitly labelled as the full tracked slice or a Creator Economy Report benchmark.

Context benchmarks come from ClickAnalytic's Creator Economy Report 2026, a study of 23.6M creators (data: December 2025). Updated monthly.

The figures above are a snapshot pulled on June 16, 2026, not a live feed.

For developers & data teams

Put the data behind this ranking in your own stack

The same live data we used to rank US tech creators, followers, engagement, audience quality and more across 400M+ creators, is available programmatically through the ClickAnalytic Influencer Marketing API.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Everything brands ask before shortlisting US tech creators.

How were these US tech influencers chosen and ranked?

We pulled US tech creators on Instagram from the live ClickAnalytic database, kept individual creators (reviewers, engineers, AI educators, and tech-comedy voices), removed brands, retailers, and news pages, then ranked the remainder by follower reach, engagement, and how real their audience reads.

Is this list only about Instagram?

Yes. The reach and engagement numbers here are Instagram. Many of these creators also note large YouTube or TikTok followings in their bios, so they are usually worth checking on more than one platform before a campaign.

Are these real tech creators or tech brands?

These are individual people who make tech content, not product brands or media outlets. We deliberately removed gadget retailers, repair shops, AI-news aggregators, and company accounts so the list reads as creators you can actually brief.

How do these creators compare with a typical US Instagram account?

Across all US Instagram creators in the Creator Economy Report 2026, only 39% clear a 75%-real-audience bar. The 25 shown here average about 81% real followers and engage their audiences roughly 3.7 times more than a typical account of the same size.

Are US tech creators a smaller pool than lifestyle or beauty?

Yes. We track 8,316 US tech creators on Instagram, fewer than broad consumer niches, because tech is a more specialised lane. That is why the list focuses on the strongest individual voices rather than padding it out with brand or news pages.

How do I find more US tech creators or their contact details?

This page shows 25 of the 8,316 US tech creators we track on Instagram. In the full database you can filter by audience location, real-follower score, follower size, and engagement, and pull verified contact emails before you reach out.

How we know this

Where the numbers on this page come from.

ClickAnalytic indexes 400M+ creator accounts across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. The figures in this ranking come from querying that database, cross-referenced with the Creator Economy Report 2026; card figures reflect the snapshot date shown on this page.

Photos and figures reflect the data snapshot date and may differ from the current profiles.

Denis Golubev

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Denis Golubev

Marketer at ClickAnalytic, turning live data on 400M+ creators into rankings brands can actually act on.

Last updated 16 Jun 20264 min read

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