Developer Relations and Advocacy
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I love enabling developers to build amazing stuff! I draw from my experience as software dev and technical trainer.
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Here are some of my recent DevRel work.
IBM / AI-Alliance (2024 - Present) 🔗
The AI Alliance is focused on fostering an open community and enabling open innovation in AI.
I am working on Data Prep Kit project :
- Developing applications show casing data prep kit's capabilities
- Creating guides and tutorials explaining the kit's features
- Giving feedback to dev team on making it easier to use
- Running workshops and hackathons; presenting at conferences
- issues I opened for DPK
- patches and pull requests I have submitted
Events
2025
- 2025-01-25: Preparing data for LLM applications for Docling and Data Prep Kit @ AI connectivity hackathon
- 2025-01-23: Preparing data for LLM applications using Data Prep Kit @ IBM TechXchange Dev Day
2024
- 2024-12-04: Preparing Data for LLM Applications Using Data Prep Kit @ PyData Global 2024, Online
- 2024-11-14: Build an Open Source Pipeline for your RAG Project@ Numhack, online
- 2024-11-09: preparing data for LLMs using open source tools @ Llama Impact Hackathon, San Francisco, CA
- 2024-10-26: Preparing Data for LLM Applications Using Data Prep Kit @ AI Summit, Mountain View, CA
- 2024-10-26: Preparing Data for LLM Applications Using Data Prep Kit @ AI Summit, Mountain View, CA
- 2024-10-21: Streamlining Data Prep for LLMs with Data Prep Kit @ IBM TechXchange conf, Las Vegas, NV
- 2024-09-21: data prep kit workshop at Hacker dojo
Resources
- data prep kit examples - github repo of example code
MongoDB (2023 - 2024) 🔗
- Developed applications to showcase MongoDB Atlas Database as a vector database.
- Created tutorials
- Presented at conferences and ran multiple workshops
Events
- 2024-03-23: Mistral Hackathon, San Francisco, CA
- 2024-02-21: Developer Week, Oakland, CA
- 2024-01-31: AI User Conference, San Francisco, CA
- 2024-01-27: MongoDB Hackathon, Burlingame, CA
Resources
- MongoDB Atlas and generative AI applications - code repo
- Tutorial: Quick Start 1: Getting Started With MongoDB Atlas and Python
- Tutorial: Quick Start 2: Vector Search With MongoDB and OpenAI
Intel 🔗
- Evangelized Intel's BigDL framework (github); Collaborated with multiple stakeholders.
- Created learning materials, Docker images, labs and tutorials.
- Conducted workshops and presented at conferences including AWS re:Invent
Events
- AWS re:Invent talk
- ACM Silicon Valley workshop: Deep Learning at Scale!
- Multiple internal workshops @ Intel