Jeremy.
DevRel / Community Professional
I am a Developer Relations and Community professional based in the Midwest. I am passionate about connecting with developers, and helping them become your biggest fans.
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About Me
I am a Developer Relations and Community professional based in the Midwest. I was recently the Director of DevRel & Community at CircleCI, and previously at Solace, Auth0, XDA, and numerous consulting gigs. With almost 30 years in Tech, covering just about every functional area including Support, SysAdmin, Application Developer, Program Manager, and Business Analyst, I am active in the DevRel and DevOps communities, and co-created DevOpsPartyGames.com. Husband and father, I am house-broken, and (generally) play well with others.
I am passionate about community and software development, and the processes involved with each, and take great happiness in evolving the understanding between companies and their technical audience. I am driven to enable the technically savvy to be your greatest champions.
Developers don’t care that you know, until they know that you care.
Here are just a few of the things I enjoy:- Family
- Sports
- Open Source
- Community
- Coffee
- Music
- Movies
- Camping
Recent Experience
Led both execution and strategy in building a program to engage, educate, and excite the user base and build relationships with developers across the verticals. Managed a global team of Developer Advocates and Community Managers, with a focus on creating scalable and impactful programs that served both internal and external audiences. Collaborated closely with Product, Customer Engineering, Business Development, Engineering, Brand Marketing teams, and Events to ensure coordinated participation and a consistent narrative for the developer. In addition to the above, worked with Marketing and Sales to launch new services, features, and enhancements effectively through the community, as well as being the face of the CircleCI Developer Community through speaking engagements, webinars, and other events.
Achievements:
- Grew team through the COVID-19 pandemic, and built a strong, cohesive team that was able to pivot to a virtual-first world.
- Formulated strategy which integrated the DevRel & Community org into the Customer journey, and built tracking and reporting mechanisms to measure success.
- Built the event participation model for the DevRel & Community org which contributed over $3mil in pipeline during my time there.
Led, coordinated, and managed the global Developer Community, the team, and Developer Relations initiatives. Used Developer Advocacy to shape the product roadmap, refine the developer experience, and build growth and engagement. Responsible for putting in place the developer content strategy to provide developers using the PubSub+ platform with the resources necessary to be successful, from samples to tutorials to workshops and more. Attended and spoke at conferences, events, and participated in online and offline communities, to grow the awareness and implementation of Solace PubSub+.
Led a team tasked with building, growing, and maintaining a Community for Developers interested in Auth0 products. Developed and implemented the strategy for online and offline engagement, as well as refining the Developer Experience, and built relationships with developers. Attended and spoke at events around Modern Identity, Community, and Developer Relations. Built out Open Source Maintainer strategy, as well as implemented an MVP/Experts program.
I am currently working as a software developer at example org.
in San Francisco, CA. I am currently working on a project that will be used to help people find the best way to get around the city.