Developer Relations
Professional Summary
Developer Advocate with 4+ years of experience driving developer adoption through technical content, hands-on demos, community programs, and global events. Proven track record of scaling developer engagement, accelerating product adoption, and translating developer feedback into product and DX improvements. With an ability to turn product releases, community questions, and real-world developer pain points into clear docs, guides, and technical content that reduce developer friction. Deeply experienced in open-source ecosystems, cloud-native tooling, and JavaScript-based developer workflows.
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 and launched a Writers Program that drove a 100× increase in website traffic and significantly 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.
- 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
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 over 20 open source events for the DEI Badging Program.
- Leading 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 developer 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.
- 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.
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, Developer Experience (DX).
- AI & Automation: Web Automation, LLM Integration, MCP’s, Data Scraping Workflows, GitHub Actions.
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