Senior Developer Advocate
Professional Summary
Ecosystem strategist and community builder with 5+ years shaping open source foundations, contributor communities, and global developer programs at scale (CNCF, Layer5, Nirmata/Kyverno, MetalBear). Experienced end-to-end across ecosystem growth, technical education, and cross-org coordination from contributor onboarding pipelines to foundation governance. CHAOSS Board Member and CNCF Ambassador building AI-assisted DevRel tooling and leading developer programs that create measurable impact.
Experience
Developer Advocate
MetalBear, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel / Feb 2024 - May 2025
- Built and executed a DevRel content and community strategy that resulted in 3× visibility growth and 300,000+ developer image downloads within 6 months
- Designed, launched, and led a Writers Program where I recruited and managed a cohort of external technical contributors that drove a 100× increase in website traffic and increased product adoption
- Led developer-facing launch strategy for mirrord for Teams, achieving #4 Product of the Day on Product Hunt
- Represented MetalBear at 5 major industry conferences, engaging 5,000+ developers through talks, demos, and workshops
- Created hands-on demos, workshops, and video tutorials showcasing real-world mirrord use cases
- Partnered with Marketing to launch integrated campaigns that increased lead generation by 50%
- Collaborated closely with Product and Engineering to improve developer documentation and onboarding flows and refine website UX based on developer feedback.
Developer Advocate
**Nirmata (Kyverno),** California, United States / Aug 2021 - Feb 2022
- Authored and maintained the release management guide and project governance docs, streamlining the contribution process for a community of 2,000+ members.
- Co-authored SDK usage examples and debugged integration issues reported via GitHub/Slack, working directly with engineering to patch doc-code mismatches before release
- Established community health dashboards using Grafana and Orbit, tracking and reporting project KPIs that informed a content strategy that boosted visibility by 30%.
- Piloted the Kyverno Certification Program, successfully badging 200+ developers within 90 days of launch to establish industry-standard expertise.
- Facilitated the technical and community requirements for Kyverno’s graduation to the incubation level within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
- Managed marketing and product visibility across online forums, LinkedIn, Twitter, Stack Overflow, Hacker News, and blog posts.
- Represented Kyverno at global Cloud Native meetups and events with over 2000 attendees.
Community Lead / Board Member
CHAOSS - (July 2020 - present)
- Leading the CHAOSSAfrica chapter to plan and facilitate webinars, Twitter spaces, and CHAOSS-focused events across Africa for 2 years.
- Leading the research efforts to measure the impact of CHAOSS DEI metrics among underrepresented groups.
- Serve as a CHAOSS metrics liaison to the scientific open-source communities to communicate needs for specific metrics.
- Collaborating with the team in developing metrics to measure, improve, and center diversity, equity, and inclusion in open-source communities and events.
- Reviewing 100+ open source events for the DEI Badging Program for project health and inclusion.
- Chairing the Code of Conduct committee, resolving incident reports and maintaining project health across the contributor community
- Contributing to the technical documentation and education on DEI best practices at conferences and meetups like CHAOSScon, KubeCon and Open Source Summit..
Community Manager
**Layer5,** Austin, Texas US / June 2020 - Oct 2024
- Creating and enhancing end-user documentation, release management guides, community handbooks, and community guidelines to improve the developer experience.
- Monitoring, analyzed contributor and reported retention data to identify drop-off points, informing a revised onboarding flow that improved 90-day retention by 120%
- Monitoring interactions via Slack and discourse, proactively attending to questions, and sending resources out to new contributors within the community.
- Scaled the contributor ecosystem by designing an onboarding pipeline and personally mentoring 200+ new contributors via weekly technical meetups.
- Represented the Layer community by giving a talk at global events like KubeCon and OSCA Fest to an audience of over 2000 attendees.
- Organising content calendars, creating content, and driving engagement across community channels and social media handles.
Projects & Al Fluency
**DevRel Compass:**
Building a community platform to help DevRel practitioners to understand where they stand and how to grow using a Claude-API-powered resume analyzer, plus a resource library, webinar series to curate insights from experts in the field.
Contact / About me
Technical skills
- Languages & Frameworks: JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, Python, React.js, Next.js, Node.js, HTML5/CSS3, Sass.
- DevOps & Cloud: Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Jenkins, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana.
- DevRel Toolkit: Technical Writing, Public Speaking, Community Management (Orbit, Slack, Discourse), API Documentation, DX Strategy
- AI & Automation: Claude API integration, LLM-powered tooling, MCP workflows, GitHub Actions, web/data automation
Soft Skills
- Developer Advocacy & Evangelism
- Technical Writing & Documentation
- Workshops, Demos & Public Speaking
- Community & Program Management
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Developer Experience (DX) Strategy
- Metrics, Feedback Loops & Impact Tracking
Volunteer