Developer Relations and Advocacy

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.

Nebius IBM / AI Alliance MongoDB Intel


Nebius (2025 - Present) πŸ”—

I am a Developer Relations Engineer for Nebius AI focusing on Nebius AI Studio.

  • Put together ai studio cookbook with examples and use cases
  • Building a partner network for collaboration and joint promotions
  • Reaching into my network to promote programs like Nebius startup program and Nebius partner program.
  • Presenting at conferences / meetups and building brand awareness.
  • Kicking off webinar series. And starting an ‘office hour’ series to engage with developers and users
  • Organizing devrel tasks and priorities internally for better visibility and collaboration from key stakeholders.
  • Working with development / product teams, on shaping product roadmap and new feature prioritization
  • Working with events / marketing teams to identify important events to participate.

IBM / AI-Alliance (2024 - 2025) πŸ”—

The AI Alliance is focused on fostering an open community and enabling open innovation in AI.

Data Prep Kit project

Data Prep Kit is an open source toolkit designed to accelerate and democratize data preparation and cleanup.

My contributions to the project:

  • Developed applications that showcase the capabilities of the Data Prep Kit (DPK)
  • Authored guides and tutorials to help users understand and leverage the kit’s features
  • Championed and implemented user-friendly APIs, improved examples, and enhanced documentation to streamline the developer experience
  • Provided ongoing feedback to the development team, directly influencing the product roadmap and new feature prioritization
  • Collected user and community feedback to identify pain points and shape future product enhancements
  • Organized and led workshops, hackathons, and conference presentations to promote open-source and drive adoption (see below)
  • Opened issues on GitHub to help track bugs, enhancements, and usability concerns
  • Submitted patches and pull requests to improve functionality, performance, and usability of the kit

AI-Alliance Office Hours

I co-created and co-host the AI Alliance Office Hours to support the community and foster collaboration. We feature talks about open source AI and community.

Events

2025

2024

Resources


MongoDB (2023 - 2024) πŸ”—

  • Developed applications to showcase MongoDB Atlas Database as a vector database.
  • Created tutorials
  • Presented at conferences and ran multiple workshops

Events

Resources


Intel πŸ”—

  • 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

Resources