Developer Relations
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
Developer Advocate
MetalBear, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel / Feb 2024 - Present
- Pioneering a content writing program and video creation to generate more educational content and guides on mirrord.
- Representing the MetalBear community by giving a talk at global events and local meetups.
- Engaging with developers and mirrord users at in-person and online events and via online forums (Reddit, StackOverflow, Slack, and X)
- Fostering relationships with developers and key influencers to drive marketing efforts to X3 the visibility of mirrord among developers
- Representing MetalBear as a marketing liaison at the CNCF
- Organizing content calendars, creating content, and driving engagements across community channels and social media handles.
- Championed the marketing and promotion of the mirrord for Team product launch, leading it to the 4th product of the day on ProductHunt.
- Collaborated with marketing to start and launch a marketing campaign, which brought in a 50% increase in lead generation.
- Creating video content via YouTube about mirrored and its use cases.
- Collaborated with the developers to improve the content and UI of the MetalBear and mirrord websites.
- Partnering with organizations like Daytona, CNCF, and LearnK8 to organize webinars and podcasts.
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.
Community Programs
CHAOSS - (July 2020 - present)
- Collaborating with the CHAOSSAfrica team to plan and facilitate webinars, Twitter spaces, and CHAOSS-focused events across Africa.
- 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 open source projects and events for the DEI Badging Program.
- Participating in program outreach to create awareness about CHAOSS among open-source events and projects.
- Representing CHAOSS at conferences, and meetups like CHAOSScon, and Open Source Summit.
- Contributing to the technical documentation and writing articles on DEI best practices.
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 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.
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
- Mailchimp,
- GitHub
- Trello
- JIRA
- WordPress
- Jenkins
- Canva
- OpenTelementry
- Prometheus
- Grafana
Soft Skills
- Flexibility
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Documentation
- Creativity
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