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.
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
- 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