Developer Relations Activity Patterns: A Unified Approach to Devrel, DX, and Community Management

Ted Neward is a tech consultant, writer, and regular keynote speaker with over twenty years of experience. He has been a part of the DevRel universe since before it had a name, including the creation and development of DevRel teams for several companies. He is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, programming languages of all forms, back-end enterprise software systems, and virtual machine/execution engine plumbing. He is the author or co-author of several books, has been an IBM Champion of Cloud, a Microsoft MVP, an INETA speaker and a PluralSight course author, as well a member of several Java JSRs. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, two cats, twelve laptops, seven tablets, nine phones and a rather large utility bill.

Scott T. McAllister spent over a decade building software in several industries before discovering the world of Developer Relations. Since then, Scott has served as a Developer Advocate at Smartsheet, PagerDuty, and ngrok. Now, he helps others explore tenancy in Kubernetes as a Principal Developer Advocate at vCluster.

David Neal is a family man, geek, illustrator, musician, international keynote speaker, and seasoned software developer. He has spent the last 12 years passionately engaged in the developer community in Developer Relations roles at organizations such as Okta, Asana, Slack, Plaid, and Pluralsight. Before DevRel, David spent over 15 years building scalable web applications from startups to large corporations. His mission is to empower folks worldwide to be more awesome.

Chris Woodruff has been at the forefront of software development since before the first .COM boom, building a career that spans enterprise web development, cloud solutions, software analytics, and developer relations. His work as a previous Developer Advocate at JetBrains and currently as a Solutions Architect allows him to apply his deep technical knowledge to solving complex challenges, with a focus on API design and scalable architectures. He is a Microsoft MVP in the areas of .NET and Web Development.