People holding senior leadership roles in DevRel, DevEx, and developer-product functions at major companies in the 2024 to 2026 window. Roles change constantly, so treat this list as a snapshot and refresh it at least quarterly.
At hyperscale platforms
Name
Role
Company
Cassidy Williams
Senior Director, Developer Advocacy
GitHub
Christina Warren
Senior Developer Advocate
GitHub
Sarah Drasner
Director (Web, Android, iOS, Multiplatform infrastructure)
Google
Logan Kilpatrick
Product Lead, Google AI Studio
Google DeepMind
Burke Holland
Principal Cloud Advocate
Microsoft
Scott Hanselman
Principal Cloud Advocate / Partner PM
Microsoft
John Papa
Partner / GM Cloud Advocate
Microsoft
Jeff Barr
Chief Evangelist
AWS
Rashmi Nambiar
Director, Global Developer Strategy, Developer Relations
AWS
Brian Douglas
Founder & CEO (formerly DevRel at GitHub & Netlify)
OpenSauced
At AI companies
Name
Role
Company
Romain Huet
Head of Developer Experience
OpenAI
Olivier Godement
Head of Product, Platform
OpenAI
Greg Brockman
President
OpenAI
Alex Albert
Head of Claude Relations / Developer Relations leadership
Anthropic
Mike Krieger
Chief Product Officer
Anthropic
Clem Delangue
Co-founder, CEO
Hugging Face
Julien Chaumond
Co-founder, CTO
Hugging Face
Daniel van Strien
Machine Learning Librarian
Hugging Face
Patrick von Platen
Core engineer, diffusers
Hugging Face
Harrison Chase
Founder & CEO
LangChain
Jerry Liu
Founder & CEO
LlamaIndex
James Briggs
Senior Developer Advocate
Pinecone
Lukas Biewald
Co-founder & CEO
Weights & Biases
(Omar Sanseviero, long-time Hugging Face DevRel leader, departed Hugging Face in 2024 to lead AI developer-relations and growth work at Google DeepMind.)
At developer-tools / platform companies
Name
Role
Company
Lee Robinson
VP of Product / Head of DevRel
Vercel
Delba de Oliveira
Senior Developer Advocate
Vercel
Arun Gupta
VP of Developer Experience
JetBrains
Aja Hammerly
DevRel head, Firebase Studio
Google (Firebase)
Joel Lord
Developer Advocate
Red Hat OpenShift
Dan Vega
Spring Developer Advocate
Broadcom (Spring)
Josh Long
Spring Developer Advocate
Broadcom (Spring)
Salma Alam-Naylor (whitep4nth3r)
Head of Developer Education
Nordcraft
Stacey Kruczek
Head of DevRel
(various): Foundation Steering Committee member
Jayson
Head of Developer Relations
Semgrep
Erin Mikail Staples
Developer Experience Engineer
(various)
Divya Mohan
Principal Technology Advocate
SUSE
At API and infrastructure companies
Name
Role
Company
Sam Julien
Developer Relations leadership
Auth0 / Okta
Sarah Dayan
Senior Software Engineer / DevRel
Algolia
Scott McAllister
Principal Developer Advocate
ngrok
Aaron Bassett
Principal Developer Relations Engineer
(various)
PJ Hagerty
Lead, AI Advocacy
IBM
At DevRel community-leadership organisations
Name
Role
Organisation
Wesley Faulkner
Steering Committee member
Developer Relations Foundation
Stacey Kruczek
Steering Committee member
Developer Relations Foundation
Arun Gupta
Steering Committee member
Developer Relations Foundation
Divya Mohan
Steering Committee member
Developer Relations Foundation
Tabs Fakier
Steering Committee member
Developer Relations Foundation
Jayson
Steering Committee member
Developer Relations Foundation
Ana Jiménez
Senior Project Manager
Linux Foundation / DevRel Foundation
Aditya
Multi-role advocate / Co-organiser
Appwrite / DevRelCon Bengaluru
Ramón Huidobro
Developer Advocate
(various / community lead)
Floor Drees
Staff Community Program Manager
Aiven
Tessa Kriesel
Independent DevRel consultant / leader
(independent)
Matthew Revell
Head of DevRel Strategy & Consulting
Major League Hacking
Cross-cutting senior consultants and educators
Mary Thengvall. Independent consultant; DevRel Weekly newsletter; Community Pulse podcast.
Jono Bacon. Independent community-strategy consultant; [email protected].
PJ Hagerty. IBM AI Advocacy; DevOps Days Buffalo organiser.
Shawn “swyx” Wang. Editor of Latent Space; founder of AI Engineer Summit and AI Engineer Foundation.
Caveats
People in DevRel move companies often. Treat anything in this list as a snapshot. Some specific patterns to watch:
Senior DevRel leaders frequently rotate between AI companies (OpenAI → Google → Anthropic and vice versa) and large platform companies (Microsoft, GitHub, AWS).
Many of the people in this list moved into AI-specific DevRel between 2022 and 2024 from broader-platform roles.
Foundation Steering Committee membership is a one-to-two-year role; rotations happen.