Developer Advocate
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Ramses Ortega Senior Developer Advocate

Mexico City, Mexico ramses.ortega.devrel@gmail.com +52 55 5555 0142

Profile Summary

  • Senior Developer Advocate with 8 years of experience representing developers on a video streaming API and SDK platform used by web and mobile engineering teams across streaming media, creator platforms, and developer tools, specializing in technical content, public speaking, and sample-app engineering.
  • Hands-on coverage across content (long-form technical blog posts and tutorials), speaking (conference talks and meetup workshops), sample code (open-source sample apps and SDK demos on GitHub), and community (Discord and GitHub Discussions), credentialed through M.S. in Computer Science, ITESM.
  • Deep craft in developer-first writing on APIs, SDKs, and integration patterns, live coding on stage and in workshop sessions, production-grade sample apps that double as integration references, and developer-experience reviews of onboarding and SDK ergonomics, applying methods such as quarterly editorial calendars tied to product launches and quickstarts and weekly voice-of-developer reports back to Product and Engineering to deliver content and demos that turn first-time visitors into signed-up developers actually shipping with the platform.
  • Engaged collaborator working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Developer Marketing, Sales, and Support inside a DevRel team embedded with a video streaming API engineering org, contributing to weekly launch enablement, voice-of-developer triage, and the editorial planning that ties content to product roadmaps.
  • Mentor who shares craft and fosters a culture of hands-on dogfooding before any post or talk ships and developer adoption measured on signups, first successful API call, and weekly active developers through pairing on talk rehearsals and content reviews, while running a monthly DevRel review with Product and a Latin America DevRel meetup chapter and publishing internal DevRel playbooks the rest of the team actually picks up.

Technical Skills

Content & Writing:
long-form technical blog posts and tutorials, dev.to and Hashnode cross-posts, MDX in Next.js, technical newsletters, editorial calendar planning, SEO for developer content, content briefs paired with sample repos
Speaking & Events:
conference talks and meetup workshops, live coding on stage, webinar hosting, CFP writing, panel moderation, conference sponsorship support, talk recordings and YouTube uploads
Sample Code, Demos & OSS:
open-source sample apps and SDK demos on GitHub, starter kits and template repos, CodeSandbox and StackBlitz interactive demos, GitHub Actions CI, semantic versioning, npm publishing, contributor onboarding
Community & Support:
Discord and GitHub Discussions, Slack community, Stack Overflow tag, Discourse forum, Reddit subreddit, office hours and AMA sessions, community moderation playbooks, top-contributor recognition programs
Developer Experience & SDKs:
SDK ergonomics review, API design feedback, onboarding and quickstart audits, error message and stack-trace clarity, code-sample copy-paste testing, dogfooding rituals, DX scorecards
Documentation & Education:
official API reference, quickstart guides and learning paths, video tutorials and code labs, docs-as-code in Markdown and MDX, Docusaurus and Mintlify, interactive playgrounds, accessibility for docs
Social & Online Presence:
X (Twitter) technical threads, LinkedIn posts, YouTube channel growth, Twitch live streams, dev.to and Hashnode cross-posting, Mastodon and Bluesky engagement, analytics on reach and shares
Metrics, Adoption & Growth:
developer signups and time-to-first-API-call, weekly active developers, content traffic and engagement, GitHub stars and forks, community health metrics, funnel attribution from content to revenue
Credentials & Education:
M.S. in Computer Science, ITESM, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, CNCF Kubernetes Application Developer, prior software engineering experience on web and mobile clients

Education

Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM) M.S. in Computer Science
Mexico City, Mexico Sep 2015 - Jun 2017

Work Experience

Mux Senior Developer Advocate
Mexico City, Mexico (remote) Apr 2022 - Present
  • Owned developer-facing content and demos for the public DevRel program for the Mux Video API, Mux Data, and the Mux Player SDK reaching 45,000 monthly active developers across Latin America and North America, partnering with 6 product managers on the launches, quickstarts, and integration stories the engineering audience cared about.
  • Ran the public speaking program with keynote talks, hands-on workshops, and live coding sessions on the video pipeline, delivering 34 talks across 18 conferences and meetups, reaching 12,000+ live attendees, and uploading every session to YouTube with 540k replay views in the first year.
  • Shipped sample code, demos, and open-source projects through production-grade sample apps that double as integration references on GitHub, releasing 22 sample repos centered on Next.js, React Native, and serverless functions, and earning 9,800 cumulative GitHub stars across the portfolio.
  • Ran community engagement and support with daily moderation on Discord, GitHub Discussions, and Stack Overflow with first-response targets, supporting 14,200 community members across the channels, answering 2,400 threads a year, and holding first response on developer questions under 4 hours on weekdays.
  • Closed the product feedback loop with a weekly voice-of-developer report on friction, feature requests, and bug clusters, logging 180 developer-friction items in the shared tracker, driving 26 feature requests onto the product roadmap, and partnering with 4 engineering teams on the rollout with named developer quotes.
  • Drove developer-experience advocacy through onboarding audits, SDK ergonomics reviews, and copy-paste-tested quickstart code, cutting median time-to-first-API-call on the free tier from 34 minutes to 9 minutes across 5 official SDKs after a paired rewrite of the quickstart and the SDK error messages with the platform team.
  • Authored documentation and educational resources covering quickstart guides, API reference rewrites, and an end-to-end video learning path, publishing 62 docs pages, shipping 180 minutes of video tutorials, and lifting free-tier signup completion from 48% to 71% on the new onboarding flow.
Algolia Developer Experience Engineer
Mexico City, Mexico (remote) Jul 2018 - Mar 2022
  • Built a personal and brand social presence around weekly technical threads, deep-dive posts, and live-coding clips on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube, growing the developer audience to 22,000 followers across 3 channels and clearing 6.4M yearly impressions on search-relevance and indexing content.
  • Ran cross-functional GTM as launch enablement with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Support on every major release, shipping 14 coordinated launches across the year, enabling 40 sales engineers with technical demos and FAQs, and authoring 9 reference architectures the field team reused on calls.
  • Owned developer adoption and community growth via a DevRel dashboard tying content, talks, and community to signups, first successful query, and weekly active developers, lifting weekly active developers on the index from 8,400 to 21,500, attributing 38% of net-new signups to DevRel content, and growing the Discord community by 3.2x over the period.
  • Anchored the content backbone with long-form tutorials, video walkthroughs, and a monthly developer newsletter on search and discovery, publishing 86 tutorials, growing the newsletter to 11,500 subscribers, and lifting organic developer traffic from 120k to 410k monthly across the docs domain.

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About this template

A Developer Advocate
Resume Template, by a Tech Resume Coach.

Quick intro: 13 years of recruiting experience, including many years at Google, and I now run a tech resume coach service for the engineer-turned-communicator crowd. Developer Advocate rewrites come in steady from the API and devtools shops where DevRel is treated as a real engineering function: Stripe, Twilio, Cloudflare, GitHub, Postman, Vercel, MongoDB, Auth0, Hashicorp, GitLab, Algolia, and Mux. So when I tell you what lands on a DevRel CV, it is from screening these resumes on the recruiter side, not from a Twitter thread.

Developer Advocate sits at the intersection of code, content, and community: the engineer who moved into developer-facing communication and now writes the posts, gives the talks, ships the sample repos, runs the Discord, feeds product feedback back to engineering, and answers for developer adoption metrics. The role is distinct from two adjacent titles. Sales Engineer owns the pre-sale technical-revenue motion. Customer Success Engineer owns the post-sale account engineering. Recruiters at Stripe, Twilio, Cloudflare, GitHub, Postman, Vercel, MongoDB, Auth0, Hashicorp, and GitLab filter for "Developer Advocate", "Senior Developer Advocate", "Developer Evangelist", or "DevRel Engineer" specifically, and the screen looks for blog posts, talk titles, sample repos, community channels, and developer-adoption numbers. A resume that reads like a generic marketer or generic engineer quietly loses the screen. Most candidates here opt for the full custom rewrite. We sit with the posts you wrote, the talks you gave, the demos you shipped, the community you moderated, the friction you fed back to Product, the docs you owned, and the signup and weekly-active- developer numbers your work actually moved. If that is more than you need today and a DevRel-shaped skeleton is the missing piece, this template covers it. ATS-clean, free, no signup. Have a swing at it.

How it works

How to use this template
to write a Developer Advocate resume

The structure was written by a former Google recruiter. The placeholders push you to be specific exactly where it matters on a DevRel CV: the posts you wrote, the talks you gave, the sample repos you shipped, the community channels you ran, and the developer-adoption and signup numbers your work moved.

Strong DevRel bullets do not arrive in one draft. They build in five layers. Layer one names the action. Layers two and three add the channels you used (blog, YouTube, conferences, Discord, GitHub) and the part of the developer journey they touched (awareness, signup, first API call, weekly active). Layer four calls out the craft (the editorial calendar, the dogfooding pass, the CFP, the voice-of-developer report, the SDK ergonomics review). Layer five quantifies what shifted: posts published, talks delivered, repos shipped, GitHub stars, community members supported, feature requests landed, time-to-first-API-call, signup lift, weekly active developers. Bullets that complete layer five are the ones a hiring manager actually circles. The framework lives in How to Write Bullet Points for Tech Resumes.

  1. 01 Task What you did
  2. 02 Channels Blog, talks, GitHub, Discord
  3. 03 Surface Signup, docs, SDK, community
  4. 04 Method Editorial, dogfooding, VOD report
  5. 05 Metric Adoption + signups + WAD

This template wires the five layers straight into your bullets so you do not carry the framework in your head. The side panel lines up clean: the channel picks feed layer 2, the product-surface and pattern fields feed layer 3, the craft and method fields feed layer 4, the count and rate inputs land at layer 5. The sentence skeletons carry layer 1. Why this matters: you only have to drop in real posts, real talk titles, real repos, real signup numbers, and real weekly-active-developer counts. The structure does the rest, and the resume reads at layer 5.

  1. Pick your DevRel stack

    Tap a chip to swap the blog channel for YouTube or Twitch, conferences for podcasts or hackathons, sample apps for starter kits or CodeSandbox demos, Discord for Slack or a Discourse forum. Every mention updates at once.

  2. Drop in your numbers

    Posts published, talks delivered, attendees reached, sample repos shipped, GitHub stars, community members supported, first-response SLA, friction items logged, feature requests landed, time-to-first-API-call, signup lift, weekly active developers, content-attributed signups, newsletter subscribers. No real numbers yet? The defaults pass for a senior DevRel resume.

  3. Save as PDF

    Click Download. The page generates a real vector PDF with selectable text and clean US Letter formatting. ATS-parsable.

Resume Sample

Developer Advocate Resume Examples

Three sample developer advocate resumes at different career stages: a junior advocate who came in from a support-engineering role, a senior advocate owning a developer community at an API company, and a principal advocate running developer relations strategy at a cloud platform. Use them as inspiration when filling the template above.

Entry-level Developer Advocate Resume Sample 2 years

Junior Developer Advocate Resume Example

Came in from support engineering. Still writes code, and already knows every question developers actually ask.

Mikkel Thorsen

Junior Developer Advocate

Aarhus, Denmark · mikkel.thorsen@gmail.com · +45 86 55 0131 · linkedin.com/in/mikkelthorsen

Profile Summary
  • Junior Developer Advocate with 2 years creating content and running community programmes for a messaging API company, after two years as a support engineer on the same product.
  • Hands-on across technical content, sample applications, conference talks, and community moderation, writing in JavaScript, Python, and TypeScript.
  • Works with product, documentation, and marketing, taking developer feedback back into the roadmap through a monthly review.
  • Support background is the credibility: answered these questions for two years before writing about them, which shows in content that addresses the real blocker.
Tools & Skills
Content:
tutorials, blog posts, sample applications, video walkthroughs, live streams, newsletters
Speaking:
meetup and conference talks, workshop facilitation, live coding, demo preparation
Coding:
JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, React, REST and webhook integration
Community:
Discord and Slack moderation, GitHub issue triage, Stack Overflow, developer forums
Feedback Loop:
developer feedback synthesis, issue reporting to product, documentation gap tracking
Measurement:
content analytics, sample-app usage, community growth and engagement, sign-up attribution
Education
Aarhus University B.Sc. in Computer Science Aarhus, Denmark · Sep 2016 - Jun 2019
Google Technical Writing One Remote · Apr 2023
Work Experience
Sinch Junior Developer Advocate Aarhus, Denmark · Oct 2023 - Present
  • Wrote 34 tutorials and 9 sample applications covering messaging, verification, and voice APIs, in JavaScript and Python.
  • Grew the community Discord from 1,200 to 4,600 members and cut median time to first answer from 9 hours to 40 minutes.
  • Spoke at 11 meetups and 3 conferences, with the workshop format reused by 4 regional teams.
  • Ran the monthly developer feedback review that turned community themes into 28 logged product issues, 9 of which shipped.
  • Rebuilt the quickstart sample after watching developers get stuck in support, cutting time to first message sent from 22 minutes to 6.
Templafy Support Engineer Copenhagen, Denmark · Aug 2019 - Sep 2023
  • Handled 900+ technical tickets a year across API integration, authentication, and deployment issues.
  • Built 14 internal troubleshooting tools in Python that cut diagnosis time on the most common issues by roughly half.
  • Ran the escalation review with engineering, turning recurring support themes into 30+ product and documentation fixes.

Senior Developer Advocate Resume Sample 8 years

Senior Developer Advocate Resume Example

Owns a developer community at an API company. Content that converts, and a feedback loop product actually uses.

Adaeze Nwachukwu

Senior Developer Advocate

Lagos, Nigeria · adaeze.nwachukwu@gmail.com · +234 1 555 0168 · linkedin.com/in/adaezenwachukwu

Profile Summary
  • Senior Developer Advocate with 8 years across API and infrastructure products, currently owning the developer community and content programme for a payments API with 26,000 developers.
  • Deep across technical content strategy, community programmes, conference speaking, and developer experience feedback, still shipping code in production samples.
  • Partners with product, documentation, and growth, and mentors 2 junior advocates on content and speaking.
  • Built the content programme that drives 34% of new developer sign-ups, measured through attribution rather than guesswork.
Tools & Skills
Content Strategy:
editorial planning, tutorial series, sample-app portfolios, video and live-stream programmes, SEO for developer content
Speaking:
keynotes, conference talks, workshops, developer webinars, podcast appearances
Coding:
JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, React, Node.js, API and SDK integration
Community:
ambassador programmes, hackathons, Discord and forum operations, contributor recognition
Product Influence:
developer experience research, feedback synthesis, roadmap advocacy, beta programme management
Measurement:
sign-up attribution, activation funnels, content performance, community health metrics
Education
University of Lagos B.Sc. in Computer Science Lagos, Nigeria · Sep 2012 - Jul 2016
Amazon Web Services AWS Certified Developer, Associate Remote · Jan 2020
Work Experience
Flutterwave Senior Developer Advocate Lagos, Nigeria · Mar 2021 - Present
  • Own the developer community and content programme for a payments API with 26,000 registered developers across 34 African markets.
  • Built the content programme that now drives 34% of new developer sign-ups, tracked through end-to-end attribution.
  • Ran 7 hackathons and 40+ workshops reaching 5,200 developers, with 18% converting to active integrations.
  • Set up the developer feedback loop with product, which turned community themes into 60 shipped improvements in two years.
  • Mentor 2 junior advocates and run the speaking-readiness programme for engineers presenting externally.
Andela Developer Advocate Lagos, Nigeria · Aug 2016 - Feb 2021
  • Built technical content and community programmes reaching 18,000 developers across 5 countries.
  • Grew the technical blog from 4,000 to 90,000 monthly readers over three years.
  • Ran the mentorship programme pairing 340 junior developers with senior engineers.

Principal Developer Advocate Resume Sample 13 years

Principal Developer Advocate Resume Example

Runs DevRel strategy at a cloud platform. Owns the programme, the budget, and the case that it works.

Gwendolyn Pierce

Principal Developer Advocate

Portland, OR · gwendolyn.pierce@gmail.com · +1 503-555-0146 · linkedin.com/in/gwendolynpierce

Profile Summary
  • Principal Developer Advocate with 13 years across cloud and developer tooling, currently setting developer relations strategy for a platform with 310,000 registered developers.
  • Works across DevRel strategy, programme design, developer experience research, and executive reporting, running a $4.2M annual programme budget.
  • Leads a team of 9 advocates and owns the relationship between developer relations, product, and marketing.
  • Built the measurement model that made DevRel's contribution legible, tying the programme to $31M in influenced annual revenue.
Tools & Skills
Strategy:
DevRel strategy, programme portfolio design, audience segmentation, competitive positioning, budget ownership
Leadership:
team leadership, hiring and levelling, cross-functional partnership, executive communication
Measurement:
attribution modelling, developer funnel design, programme ROI, health metrics, board-level reporting
Programmes:
ambassador and champion programmes, conference strategy, open-source engagement, beta and preview programmes
Developer Experience:
DX research, onboarding funnel analysis, documentation and SDK advocacy, roadmap influence
Speaking & Content:
keynotes, editorial direction, spokesperson work, analyst and press engagement
Education
Oregon State University B.S. in Computer Science Corvallis, OR · Sep 2007 - Jun 2011
Kellogg School of Management Executive programme, Marketing Strategy Evanston, IL · 2021
Work Experience
DigitalOcean Principal Developer Advocate Portland, OR · Jan 2018 - Present
  • Set developer relations strategy for a platform with 310,000 registered developers, running a $4.2M annual programme budget.
  • Built the attribution model that tied the DevRel programme to $31M in influenced annual revenue, which secured headcount through two budget cycles.
  • Lead a team of 9 advocates across 4 regions, including hiring, levelling, and the internal speaking programme.
  • Redesigned the developer onboarding funnel with product, lifting 30-day activation from 22% to 38%.
  • Run the ambassador programme of 240 community leaders across 40 countries.
Puppet Senior Developer Advocate Portland, OR · Aug 2011 - Dec 2017
  • Built technical content and community programmes for an infrastructure automation product with 40,000 users.
  • Ran the annual user conference programme, growing attendance from 600 to 2,400.
  • Led the open-source contributor programme that lifted external module contributions by 3x over four years.

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Frequently asked

Your Questions about the Developer Advocate Resume Template, Answered

Yes, completely free. No signup, no email gate, no upsell at the export step. Open the page, drop in your real blog post counts, talk numbers, sample apps shipped, community stats, GitHub stars, and the developer adoption and signup-conversion numbers your work moved, hit Download, and the PDF lands in your downloads folder.

Yes. The exported PDF runs single-column with the section headers ATS systems expect (Profile Summary, Technical Skills, Education, Work Experience). No tables, no icons in the paper, no two-column tricks. Workday, Greenhouse, and Lever parse it cleanly. Want a sanity check on the export? Run it through our ATS Checker.

Yes. Hit the Edit toggle above the preview, then click into any sentence on the paper and type over it. Side-panel placeholders keep flowing into the resume as you type, and the surrounding copy stays editable so you can shape the bullets to the actual talks you gave, the sample apps you shipped on GitHub, and the docs you wrote inside Stripe, Twilio, Cloudflare, Postman, Vercel, MongoDB, or Auth0.

Click Download. The browser assembles the PDF on the spot, with no print dialog, no signup, and no server round-trip. The output is real vector text on US Letter, parsed by ATS systems the same way they read any clean resume export.

Swap the defaults. The template leans long-form technical blog posts as the content backbone, conference and meetup talks for the speaking side, open-source sample apps and SDK demos for the code-drop side, Discord and GitHub Discussions for community, and product analytics plus funnel telemetry for measuring developer adoption. Every reference is a placeholder. Use the chips to swap blog for YouTube or Twitch, conferences for podcasts or workshops, Discord for Slack or a forum, GitHub stars for npm downloads or active monthly developers. If your work leans heavily on the content side, lean on the content bullet, the docs bullet, and the social bullet. If it leans heavily on the engineering side, lean on the sample-code bullet, the DX bullet, and the feedback bullet.

The Developer Advocate template is the dedicated engineer-turned-communicator resume. It names the work directly: technical blog posts and long-form tutorials, conference talks and live demos, open-source sample apps and starter kits, community engagement on Discord and GitHub Discussions, the internal voice-of-developer loop that surfaces friction back to Product and Engineering, hands-on developer experience reviews of onboarding and API design, official documentation and learning paths, a personal and brand social presence, cross-functional GTM work on launches, and the developer adoption and funnel numbers DevRel actually moves. The Sales Engineer template covers the pre-sale technical-revenue motion. The Customer Success Engineer template covers post-sale account engineering. Pick the Developer Advocate template if your job title says Developer Advocate, Senior Developer Advocate, Developer Evangelist, DevRel Engineer, or Developer Educator, and you spend your week writing, speaking, demoing, and feeding signals back to Product.

No. DevRel hiring screens on the content you actually published, the talks you gave on stages a hiring manager can verify, the sample apps and SDKs you shipped on GitHub, the community channels you ran, the friction you fed back to Product and Engineering, the docs and learning paths you authored, the social presence you built, and the developer adoption and funnel numbers your work moved. The shape of the page is not on the rubric. What does cost interviews is a resume padded with vague DevRel platitudes that never names a blog post, a talk title, a sample repo, a community channel, a documentation section, or a developer-adoption number. This one is shaped to prevent that. The skeleton came from a former Google recruiter; the substance is yours.

Why trust this template

Emmanuel Gendre, former Google recruiter and tech resume writer

Emmanuel Gendre

1,500+ tech resumes rewritten · 4.9 on Fiverr from 419 reviews

Hi there! I'm Emmanuel, a tech recruiter with 13 years of experience, including many years at Google. I founded TechieCV to help candidates pass recruiter screens and land top-paying jobs. Below is the data behind every bullet, skills line, and metric placeholder on this template.

  • Experience Hundreds of Developer Advocate resumes screened across Stripe, Twilio, Cloudflare, GitHub, Postman, Vercel, MongoDB, Auth0, Hashicorp, GitLab, Algolia, and Mux, during my Google recruiter years and at TechieCV. The Profile Summary and Skills sections mirror what survived the 6-second screen on a DevRel hiring manager's desk.
  • Expertise Bullets modeled on senior offers. The Mux section is structured the way Senior and Staff Developer Advocates write their experience when they land DevRel interviews at API and devtools companies: content scope and reach, public speaking and live demos, sample code and open source, community engagement and support, product feedback loop, developer-experience advocacy, and the documentation and learning paths that turn first-time visitors into developers actually shipping on the platform.
  • Trust Stack reflects the 2026 hiring bar. Long-form technical blog posts and tutorials for the content side, conference talks and meetup workshops for the speaking side, open-source sample apps and SDK demos on GitHub for the code drop, Discord and GitHub Discussions for community, plus an M.S. in Computer Science is what API and devtools hiring managers expect today; suggestion chips cover realistic alternatives (YouTube, Twitch, dev.to, Hashnode, podcasts, panels, hackathons, code labs, starter kits, CodeSandbox, Slack, Stack Overflow, Discourse, AWS Solutions Architect, CKAD, GCP Developer) so you can match your real stack without losing keyword fit.
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