Developer Advocate
Professional Summary
An experienced Developer Advocate with a strong background in community management and software development. With over four years of experience in public speaking, community building, documentation, and leading programs that drive developer engagement and adoption. Excellent at communicating complex technical concepts while building and maintaining relationships with developers, stakeholders, and industry partners. Eager to contribute to the success of the company with my next employer.
Experience
Community Manager
Layer5, Austin, Texas US / June 2020 - Present
- Creating and enhancing end-user documentation, release management guide, community handbook, and community guidelines to improve the onboarding experience.
- Monitoring, reporting, and acting on community metrics to improve health, outreach, support, and onboarding efforts.
- Monitoring interactions via Slack and discourse, proactively attending to questions, and sending resources out to new contributors within the community.
- Developing effective strategies to recruit and retain contributors within Layer5.
- Onboarding newcomers via weekly meetups by providing the answers and resources necessary.
- Representing the community by giving a talk at global events like KubeCon and OSCA Fest.
- Organising content calendars, creating content, and driving engagements across community channels and social media handles.
- Performing ad-hoc duties assigned by the team towards community programs.
Technical Writer
API7.ai, Shenzhen, China / Feb 2022 - May 2022
- Created technical content around Apache APISIX use cases that target online forums like Twitter, Stack Overflow, and Hacker News.
- Collaborated on curating the Apache APISIX handbook.
- Oversaw the outreach Africa program to grow awareness for Apache APISIX across African countries.
- Worked with the growth and marketing team to plan and facilitate webinars and workshops across top universities & communities in Africa with over 200 participants.
- Collaborated with team members on updating Apache APISIX technical documentation.
- Worked with community managers to enhance contributor/end-user documentation and community guidelines.
- Collaborated with the contributor coordinator to improve the contributor experience, grow users and increase engagement in Apache APISIX slack.
- Represented Apache APISIX at virtual events and conferences.
Developer Advocate
Nirmata(Kyverno), California, United States / Aug 2021 - Feb 2022
- Wrote technical content around Kyverno and use cases.
- Oversaw the planning and execution of the Kyverno Adopters program
- Piloted the Kyverno Badging program..
- Collaborated with the developer team to organize and launch the Kyverno certification program.
- Tracked and reported project & community health using Grafana, orbit and other KPI tools.
- Documented system configurations, release management guide, project governance and release notes for Kyverno.
- Promoted programs across online forums, LinkedIn, Twitter, Stack Overflow, Hacker News and blog posts.
- Represented Kyverno at cloud Native meetups and events.
- Implemented CI/CD tools like Jekins to automate GitHub actions.
- Collaborated with internal teams to understand and improve open source and developer community-building strategies.
- Facilitated the application process for Kyverno to graduate to the Incubation level as a CNCF project.
Contact / About me
Front-end Technologies
- HTML
- CSS
- Sass
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- React.js
- Next.js
- Jekyll
- Node.js
- Markdown
Tools
- Linux
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Meshery
- AWS
- Vercel
- Git
- GitHub
- Trello
- JIRA
- Jenkins
- OpenTelementry
- Prometheus
- Grafana
Soft Skills
- Flexibility
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Documentation
- Creativity
- Support
- Accountability
- Self-Starter
- Critical-thinking
- Problem-solving
- People-mastery
- Public speaking
- Organisation & Planning
- Community management
- Program management
- Technical writing
Volunteer