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Developer Advocates Directory.

This directory is necessarily incomplete. The actual population of practicing developer advocates is in the low tens of thousands worldwide. A directory of "everyone" is not possible in a single document. What this captures is a represen…

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A working directory of practicing DevRel professionals across companies, domains, and regions. This list focuses on individual contributor and senior IC advocates who are publicly active in 2024–2026; many of the people listed in ./current-leaders.md and ./pioneers.md are not duplicated here.

This directory is necessarily incomplete. The actual population of practicing developer advocates is in the low tens of thousands worldwide. A directory of “everyone” is not possible in a single document. What this captures is a representative cross-section across companies, regions, technology stacks, and identity dimensions.

For comprehensive discovery, see:

  • The DevRel Collective Slack community.
  • The Developer Relations Foundation member directory (forming, 2025–2026).
  • The DevRelX directory at devrelx.com.
  • The AWS Heroes, Google Developer Experts, Microsoft MVP, MongoDB Champions, and similar program directories — see ../05-companies/ files.

By company (selection)

GitHub

  • Cassidy Williams (Senior Director, Developer Advocacy)
  • Christina Warren (Senior Developer Advocate, video host)
  • Brian Douglas (alumnus, now OpenSauced founder)

Microsoft

  • Scott Hanselman
  • Burke Holland
  • John Papa
  • Maddy Montaquila
  • Jen Looper
  • Steve Buchanan
  • Dan Wahlin (alumnus)

AWS

  • Jeff Barr (Chief Evangelist)
  • Channy Yun (Principal DevRel)
  • Brandon West (alumnus)
  • Andrea Spiegel
  • Nathan Peck (Container DevRel)
  • Asha Suarez (Community Builders)
  • Many regional advocates across LATAM, EMEA, APAC, India

Google / Google Cloud / Google AI

  • Logan Kilpatrick (Google AI Studio)
  • Sarah Drasner (Web/Android/iOS infrastructure)
  • Omar Sanseviero (DeepMind, formerly Hugging Face)
  • Aja Hammerly (Firebase)
  • Kelsey Hightower (alumnus, retired from active Google Cloud DevRel)
  • Multiple GDE program managers globally

Vercel

  • Lee Robinson (VP Product / Head of DevRel)
  • Delba de Oliveira (Senior Developer Advocate)
  • Cassidy Williams (alumna)

Netlify (alumni now elsewhere)

  • Sarah Drasner (former VP DX, now Google)
  • Cassidy Williams (former Principal Developer Experience Engineer, now GitHub)
  • Phil Hawksworth
  • Sara Vieira

HashiCorp

  • Anubhav Mishra (alumnus; key early advocate)
  • Nic Jackson (alumnus; key early advocate; Microservices in Go author)
  • Many active advocates across Terraform, Vault, Consul, Boundary, Waypoint

Stripe

  • Patrick Collison’s executive presence functions partly as DevRel
  • Various technical-content authors and developer educators

Twilio

  • Margaret Staples (alumna)
  • Phil Nash (long-running advocate)
  • Brent Schooley
  • David Pine
  • Lizzie Siegle
  • Kelley Robinson

Postman

  • Joyce Lin (Head of Developer Relations)
  • Sue Smith
  • Multiple education-focused advocates

Auth0 / Okta

  • Sam Julien (DevRel leadership)
  • Sandrina Pereira
  • Multiple identity-focused advocates

Cloudflare

  • Kabir Sikand
  • Sven Sauleau
  • Multiple Workers / Pages advocates
  • Significant Discord-channel staffing

MongoDB

  • Mark Smith (Director of Developer Relations)
  • Lauren Schaefer
  • Maxime Beugnet
  • Joel Lord (also active in Red Hat context)

Redis

  • Justin Castilla
  • Brian Sam-Bodden
  • Tyler Hutcherson

DigitalOcean

  • Daniel Olaogun
  • Erin Glass (alumna)
  • Multiple regional Wavemakers

Snyk

  • Liran Tal
  • Brian Vermeer

Datadog

  • Multiple 2025 Ambassadors cohort members

Sentry

  • Tomas Hromnik
  • Multiple Sentry community advocates

Replicate

  • Multiple developer-content authors

Hugging Face / Anthropic / OpenAI

By domain / stack

JavaScript / TypeScript / Frontend

  • Cassidy Williams (GitHub)
  • Lee Robinson (Vercel)
  • Theo Browne (independent, t3.gg)
  • Salma Alam-Naylor (Nordcraft)
  • Wes Bos (independent, education)
  • Scott Tolinski (independent, Syntax podcast)
  • Sara Dayan (Algolia)
  • Sarah Drasner (Google)
  • Ben Holmes (Astro)
  • Fred Schott (Astro)
  • Sara Vieira (multiple companies)
  • Una Kravets (Google, CSS)
  • Adam Argyle (Google, CSS)
  • Cassidy Williams (above)

Python / Data / ML

  • Daniel van Strien (Hugging Face)
  • Pamela Fox (Microsoft; Python community)
  • Will McGugan (independent; Textualize)
  • David Beazley (independent; Python)
  • Reuven Lerner (independent; Python instructor)

Go

  • Mat Ryer (Veed, formerly Pace)
  • Carmen Andoh (Google, Go)
  • Jaana Dogan (formerly Google, AWS, now independent)

Rust

  • Many Rust advocates are independent / community-led
  • Tim McNamara (independent; Rust in Action author)
  • Mara Bos (Rust core team)

Java / JVM

  • Josh Long (Broadcom / Spring)
  • Dan Vega (Broadcom / Spring)
  • Venkat Subramaniam (independent; Agile Developer)
  • Trisha Gee (independent / Gradle)
  • Mala Gupta (JetBrains)
  • Mark Heckler (Microsoft, Java)

Kotlin

  • Hadi Hariri (JetBrains)
  • Sébastien Deleuze (Broadcom / Spring)
  • Roman Elizarov (JetBrains)

Mobile (iOS / Android)

  • Donny Wals (independent; iOS)
  • Paul Hudson (Hacking with Swift)
  • Annyce Davis (Meetup, Android)
  • Florina Muntenescu (Google, Android)
  • Multiple regional Android GDEs

Infrastructure / DevOps / Kubernetes

  • Kelsey Hightower (independent)
  • Liz Rice (Isovalent, then Cisco)
  • Justin Garrison (Sidero Labs, formerly AWS)
  • Bret Fisher (independent; Docker training)
  • Nirmal Mehta (DevOps Days organising)
  • Annie Talvasto (CNCF Ambassadors)

Security / DevSecOps

  • Liran Tal (Snyk)
  • Tanya Janca (independent; We Hack Purple)
  • Jess Frazelle (independent; Oxide)

Databases

  • Mark Smith (MongoDB)
  • Justin Castilla (Redis)
  • Many CockroachDB, Snowflake, Databricks community advocates

AI / LLM Engineering

  • Logan Kilpatrick (Google AI Studio)
  • Shawn “swyx” Wang (AI Engineer / Latent Space)
  • Harrison Chase (LangChain)
  • Jerry Liu (LlamaIndex)
  • James Briggs (Pinecone)
  • Eden Marco (Israel; LangChain Hebrew community)
  • Sam Witteveen (independent; AI YouTube)

By region (selection)

North America

  • The vast majority of named figures above are US-based, though increasingly multinational.

Europe

  • Floor Drees (Netherlands / Austria; Aiven)
  • Aaron Bassett (Ireland / multiple)
  • Ramón Huidobro (Austria / Spain)
  • Eden Marco (Israel)
  • Annie Talvasto (Finland)
  • Sebastien Deleuze (France / Spring)
  • Hadi Hariri (Spain / JetBrains)
  • Trisha Gee (Spain / UK)
  • Phil Nash (UK / Twilio alumnus, now elsewhere)

Asia Pacific

  • Aditya (India; Appwrite, Microsoft MVP)
  • Divya Mohan (India / UK; SUSE)
  • Tabs (Australia / multi-region)
  • Akshay Saini (India; independent JS educator)

Latin America

  • Delba de Oliveira (Brazil / Vercel)
  • Multiple AWS Heroes and GDEs across Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile

Africa

  • David Ifeoluwa Adelani (Nigeria / Hugging Face contributor, NLP)
  • Multiple GDG and AWS Community Builders across Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Egypt

Caveat

Any directory of DevRel professionals is partial, dated as soon as it is published, and skewed by visibility — louder voices on social media disproportionately make these lists, which is itself a problem. The most valuable DevRel work often happens in private community channels, internal feedback loops, and quiet long-form writing that does not produce a follower count.

If you are using this directory to identify potential hires or partners, supplement it with:

  • The company-specific recognition program directories (Heroes, GDE, MVPs, etc.).
  • Active conference speaker lists from DevRelCon, GitHub Universe, AWS re:Invent, KubeCon, and your category’s flagship events.
  • The Developer Relations Foundation membership directory.
  • LinkedIn searches by title in the geographies you care about.

See also