06 PEOPLE ✣
Current Leaders of Developer Relations.
People holding senior leadership roles in DevRel, DevEx, and developer-product functions at major companies in the 2024–2026 window. Roles change constantly; this list should be treated as a snapshot and refreshed at least quarterly. Whe…
People holding senior leadership roles in DevRel, DevEx, and developer-product functions at major companies in the 2024–2026 window. Roles change constantly; this list should be treated as a snapshot and refreshed at least quarterly. Where someone is listed but has since moved, the move is usually itself notable.
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) | |
| 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 | 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; bacon@jonobacon.com.
- 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.