06 PEOPLE ✣

Expanded People Directory.

Caveat throughout. People change jobs constantly. Treat affiliations as snapshots requiring refresh, not as authoritative claims. Where someone is named and the affiliation has changed since publication, the name remains a useful pointer…

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A deeper, broader directory than ./advocates-directory.md. This file aggregates named practitioners across many more companies and contexts. It remains incomplete (no single list could be complete), but it captures a substantially larger cross-section.

Caveat throughout. People change jobs constantly. Treat affiliations as snapshots requiring refresh, not as authoritative claims. Where someone is named and the affiliation has changed since publication, the name remains a useful pointer to a real and active practitioner.

At Microsoft / Microsoft-adjacent

Scott Hanselman (Principal Cloud Advocate / Partner PM)
Burke Holland (Principal Cloud Advocate)
John Papa (Partner / GM Cloud Advocate)
Jeff Sandquist (GM, Cloud Advocates — founder of the modern team)
Maddy Montaquila
Jen Looper
Steve Buchanan
Pamela Fox
Hassan Habib
Sara Liberman
Aaron Powell
David Smith
Aysegul Yonet
Anthony Chu
Mike James
Dave Glover
Eric Boyd (alumnus)
Dan Wahlin (alumnus)
Mads Kristensen (Visual Studio)

At GitHub

Cassidy Williams (Senior Director, Developer Advocacy)
Christina Warren (Senior Developer Advocate)
Martin Woodward (Director of DevRel; ex)
Eddie Jaoude (community / external)
Kedasha Kerr (Developer Advocate)
Brian Douglas (alumnus, now OpenSauced)
Brandon Roberts (Developer Advocate)
April Yoho (Developer Advocate)
Jonathan Carter (alumnus)

At AWS

Jeff Barr (Chief Evangelist; since 2002)
Werner Vogels (CTO; public technical face)
Channy Yun (Principal DevRel, APAC)
Nathan Peck (Container DevRel)
Brandon West (alumnus; SendGrid → AWS → various)
Rashmi Nambiar (Director, Global Developer Strategy)
Asha Suarez (Community Builders)
David Nalley (Director, Open Source Strategy and Marketing)
Banjo Obayomi
Ross Barich
Many regional advocates across LATAM, EMEA, APAC, India

At Google / Google Cloud / Google AI / Google DeepMind

Logan Kilpatrick (Product Lead, Google AI Studio)
Omar Sanseviero (DeepMind, formerly Hugging Face)
Sarah Drasner (Director — Web/Android/iOS/Multiplatform infra)
Carmen Andoh (Go)
Una Kravets (CSS / Web)
Adam Argyle (CSS / Web)
Aja Hammerly (Firebase Studio)
Florina Muntenescu (Android)
Kelsey Hightower (alumnus; retired from active GCP work)
Filip Hracek
Many GDE program managers and Cloud Customer Engineers globally

At Apple

Apple does not publicly name its developer-relations team in the way other companies do. Many of Apple’s developer-facing functions operate through Apple Developer Centers, the Apple Developer Forums (with engineer-author replies), and WWDC programming.

At Meta / Meta Open Source

The Meta Open Source team includes engineers and program managers across React, React Native, PyTorch, Llama, Detectron, etc.
High-visibility individuals include the React core team (Dan Abramov, formerly; Andrew Clark; Sebastian Markbåge, formerly; Sophie Alpert, formerly; and current maintainers).

At Stripe

Patrick Collison (Co-founder, CEO; substantial developer-facing public presence)
David Singleton (CTO)
The Stripe developer-experience team includes many engineers operating with semi-public profiles.
Romain Huet (alumnus, now OpenAI)

At Twilio

Phil Nash (Principal Developer Advocate)
Brent Schooley
David Pine
Lizzie Siegle
Kelley Robinson
Margaret Staples (alumna)
Greg Baugues (alumnus)
Rob Spectre (alumnus)
Carter Rabasa (alumnus)
Many advocates per region

At Postman

Joyce Lin (Head of Developer Relations)
Sue Smith
Arlemi Turpault
Multiple region-specific advocates

At MongoDB

Mark Smith (Director of Developer Relations)
Lauren Schaefer
Maxime Beugnet
Joe Karlsson
Jesse Hall (alumnus; now Daily.dev)
Anaiya Raisinghani

At Redis

Justin Castilla
Brian Sam-Bodden
Tyler Hutcherson
Will Johnston

At HashiCorp / IBM (post-acquisition)

Anubhav Mishra (alumnus)
Nic Jackson (alumnus)
Robert Hafner
Rosemary Wang (Engineering / DevRel)
Many current advocates across Terraform, Vault, Consul, Boundary, Waypoint

At Vercel / Next.js ecosystem

Lee Robinson (VP Product / Head of DevRel)
Delba de Oliveira (Senior Developer Advocate)
Cassidy Williams (alumna)
Steven Tey (alumnus, founder of Dub.co)
Guillermo Rauch (CEO; also extremely visible developer-facing)
Jared Palmer (alumnus / Turbo)

At Netlify (current and alumni)

Sarah Drasner (former VP DX)
Phil Hawksworth
Sara Vieira (alumna)
Cassidy Williams (alumna)
Chris Bach (Co-founder)
Mathias Biilmann (Co-founder, CEO)

At Auth0 / Okta

Sam Julien (DevRel leadership)
Sandrina Pereira
Eden Marco (LangChain / Israeli community)
Christian Heilmann (alumnus)
Bobby Johnson

At Cloudflare

Kabir Sikand
Sven Sauleau
Sunil Pai
Glen Maddern
Brendan Irvine-Broque

At Algolia

Sarah Dayan (Senior Software Engineer / DevRel)
Sylvain Utard
Jeremy Bauchet
Multiple search-focused advocates

At Datadog

2025 Ambassadors cohort members
Internal advocates including engineering-marketing leads

At Sentry

Cody De Arkland
Salma Alam-Naylor (alumna, now Nordcraft)
Tomas Hromnik
Lazar Nikolov
Ben Vinegar (engineering / DevRel-adjacent)

At Snyk

Liran Tal
Brian Vermeer
Sonya Moisset (alumna)
Aikidev Wapner

At Replit

Amjad Masad (CEO; developer-facing)
Pirijan
Mostly engineer-author roles

At StackBlitz / CodeSandbox

Eric Simons (CEO, StackBlitz)
Ives van Hoorne (Co-founder, CodeSandbox)
Many engineers operating semi-public profiles

At JetBrains

Hadi Hariri (VP, Developer Advocacy)
Sébastien Deleuze (Spring / Kotlin)
Roman Elizarov (Kotlin)
Trisha Gee (alumna; now Gradle, after JetBrains)
Mala Gupta (Developer Advocate)
Anton Arhipov
Marit van Dijk
Many tools and Academy advocates

At Spring (Broadcom, formerly VMware/Pivotal)

Josh Long (Spring Developer Advocate)
Dan Vega (Spring Developer Advocate)
Sébastien Deleuze
Tiffany Jernigan
Multiple per-domain advocates

At Red Hat / IBM

Joel Lord (OpenShift)
PJ Hagerty (Lead, AI Advocacy)
Burr Sutter (Director, Developer Experience)
Edson Yanaga
Daniel Bryant
Tim Hockin–adjacent K8s contributors at Red Hat

At Nordcraft / various smaller / EU teams

Salma Alam-Naylor (Head of Developer Education, Nordcraft)
Various smaller-team senior advocates

At Aiven

Floor Drees (Staff Community Program Manager)
Multiple PostgreSQL-community contributors

At Supabase

Tyler Shukert (developer-content)
Multiple community / contributor roles
Paul Copplestone (CEO; developer-visible)

At Neon

Multiple developer-content authors
Heikki Linnakangas (Postgres core hacker; engineering-cum-DevRel-visible)

Erik Bernhardsson (Founder, Modal)
Vipul Ved Prakash (CEO, Together AI)
Ben Firshman (CEO, Replicate)
Robert Nishihara (CEO, Anyscale)
Lin Qiao (CEO, Fireworks AI)
Many engineer-advocates

At OpenAI

Romain Huet (Head of Developer Experience)
Olivier Godement (Head of Product, Platform)
Greg Brockman (President)
Logan Kilpatrick (alumnus, now Google AI Studio)

At Anthropic

Alex Albert (Head of Claude Relations / Developer Relations leadership)
Mike Krieger (CPO)
Multiple engineering-DevRel-adjacent staff

At Hugging Face

Clem Delangue (CEO)
Julien Chaumond (CTO)
Daniel van Strien (Machine Learning Librarian)
Patrick von Platen (Core engineer, diffusers)
Lewis Tunstall
Many model-card and dataset-card contributors

At LangChain / LlamaIndex / Pinecone / Vector-DB ecosystem

Harrison Chase (LangChain)
Jerry Liu (LlamaIndex)
James Briggs (Pinecone)
Bob van Luijt (Weaviate)
Anton Troynikov (Chroma, co-founder)
Andre Zayarni (Qdrant)
Edo Liberty (Pinecone)

At Weights & Biases

Lukas Biewald (Co-founder, CEO)
Multiple ML-engineering-content advocates

At NVIDIA

Jensen Huang (CEO; primary public face)
Bryan Catanzaro (Applied Deep Learning Research)
Multiple Inception, DLI, and developer-program leads

At Databricks

Ali Ghodsi (CEO)
Matei Zaharia (CTO / Apache Spark creator)
Multiple DAIS keynote speakers

At Snowflake

Multiple Data Superhero community leads
Snowflake Squad members

At Confluent

Tim Berglund (former Senior Director, Developer Relations)
Multiple Kafka community leads

At smaller / specialised / independent

Will McGugan (Textualize)
David Beazley (independent Python educator)
Anthony Sottile (independent Python educator)
Eric Holscher (Read the Docs, Write the Docs)
Daniele Procida (Canonical, Diátaxis author)
Joel Spolsky (alumnus; Stack Overflow co-founder)
Jeff Atwood (alumnus; Stack Overflow / Discourse co-founder)
Wes Bos (independent; Syntax.fm)
Scott Tolinski (independent; Syntax.fm)
Kent C. Dodds (independent; testing / React)
Brad Frost (independent; design systems)
Sarah Mei (independent; software engineering culture)
Sandi Metz (independent; Ruby / OO design)

At education / non-profit

Quincy Larson (freeCodeCamp founder)
Jerome Hardaway (Vets Who Code founder)
Saron Yitbarek (CodeNewbie founder)
Multiple bootcamp-aligned educators

At DevRel-community-leadership

Wesley Faulkner (Steering Committee, DevRel Foundation)
Stacey Kruczek (Steering Committee, DevRel Foundation)
Arun Gupta (Steering Committee, DevRel Foundation; VP DX at JetBrains)
Divya Mohan (Steering Committee, DevRel Foundation; Principal Technology Advocate at SUSE)
Tabs (Steering Committee, DevRel Foundation)
Jayson (Steering Committee, DevRel Foundation; Head of DevRel at Semgrep)
Ana Jiménez (Senior Project Manager, Linux Foundation / DevRel Foundation operations)
Aditya (Developer Advocate at Appwrite; DevRelCon Bengaluru co-organiser)
Mary Thengvall (Persea Consulting; DevRel Weekly; Community Pulse)
Matthew Revell (Major League Hacking; founder of DevRelCon and Hoopy)
PJ Hagerty (Lead AI Advocacy at IBM; DevOps Days Buffalo)
Jono Bacon (independent consultant)
Phil Leggetter (DevRel.Agency)
Floor Drees (Aiven)
Erin Mikail Staples (independent)
Ramón Huidobro (independent)
Tessa Kriesel (independent)
Aaron Bassett (independent)
Shawn “swyx” Wang (Latent Space / AI Engineer Foundation)

How to read this list

Don’t try to memorise it. Use it for discovery.
Verify current affiliation before relying on any entry as authoritative.
Cross-reference with company-program directories for current employees. The Microsoft MVP directory, AWS Heroes page, GDE directory, MongoDB Champions page, and so on are authoritative for current program membership.
Search LinkedIn and Bluesky / X for current activity around any name.

What this list omits

Most non-English-speaking senior practitioners. A genuine global directory would require coverage that mostly happens in regional languages.
Internal-platform-engineering leaders. Visible in their own ecosystems (Spotify Backstage maintainers, Netflix’s productivity-engineering org, etc.) but largely separate from external-DevRel discourse.
Most non-AI-recent emerging talent in 2024–2026. The field has had substantial turnover; new senior voices are continuously emerging.