Helped turn Figma's earliest designer relationships into a community engine spanning advocacy, events and education. Her playbook connects practitioner trust to company growth.
Builders of practitioner communities and developer education, selected for documented work, including past roles.
Cosign
Teaches APIs through working code and live demos. His Stripe developer-relations work makes the case that great developer experience is something you demonstrate, not just describe.
Jessica turns observability from an abstract discipline into something developers can try. As Honeycomb’s engineering manager for developer relations, she teaches through concrete examples—including the trade-offs of running an OpenTelemetry collector on Lambda—and connects technical learning to how teams work.
Teaches builders AI development with Replit
Built Notion Pages before joining Notion, then helped turn that fan energy into templates, ambassadors and local communities. A hands-on guide to building with your users.
Created container.training: workshops, code examples and practical exercises grounded in his Docker and dotCloud experience. He turns infrastructure concepts into skills you can use.
His career connects open-source communities with the companies that support them, including community and marketing work at Inktank and Astronomer. Now leading marketing at Flox, Ross brings a useful view of how technical communities earn trust and sustain participation.
Builds AI Engineer and Latent Space communities
Brought the internal champion's perspective into Figma's sales conversations. His advocacy work shows how practitioner credibility can help a whole team adopt a new tool.
Makes intimidating tools understandable through Wizard Zines and carefully tested examples. Her work improving tcpdump and dig documentation brings that teaching craft directly into the tools engineers use.
Janna co-founded Mind the Product as well as ProdPad, pairing a practitioner community with tools and coaching for product teams. Her Now-Next-Later approach gives that community a shared language for discussing outcomes, uncertainty and priorities.
Built GitHub's developer advocacy community
Made Webflow approachable through live teaching and practical demos, then kept supporting its community through Ophelia. He knows how to turn a difficult workflow into something people can actually do.
Built Twilio's early marketing around what developers were creating. Her work connecting customer stories with a distributed developer community is a playbook for earning attention through your users' work.
Hamel makes AI evaluation teachable through practical guides and open-source tools, drawing on work at GitHub and Airbnb. His contribution is helping other engineers turn vague concerns about model quality into repeatable evaluation and improvement practices.
Built developer communities at OpenAI and Google
Helped Twitch creators find their footing through programming, studio work and creator development. His experience sits at the intersection of live production and helping talent grow.
Deep experience in the human side of open source, with community strategy and developer-relations leadership at Red Hat and Elasticsearch. A strong voice for anyone building a community that developers want to take part in.
Jason created Instructor and shares detailed guides on structured outputs, retrieval and evaluations. His teaching is grounded in building developer tools, including his current Codex developer-experience work at OpenAI.
