Imani Cole Senior DevRel Engineer
Atlanta, GA, USA • imani.cole.devrel@gmail.com • +1 404 555 0148
Profile Summary
- Senior DevRel Engineer with 7 years of experience building tools for developers on an identity and authentication platform used by web and mobile engineering teams across identity, SaaS authentication, and developer tooling, specializing in SDK engineering, reference apps, and docs infrastructure.
- Hands-on coverage across SDKs (TypeScript), CLI tooling (a Node and oclif CLI), reference apps (Next.js), and docs platform (Docusaurus with MDX), credentialed through B.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Tech.
- Deep craft in library design and SDK ergonomics across multiple languages, production-grade reference apps that double as integration blueprints, docs-as-code pipelines with code-tested samples and OpenAPI generation, and dogfooding rituals that catch API friction before customers do, applying methods such as semantic versioning with changelogs auto-generated from PR labels and weekly API friction reports tied to GitHub Issues and customer tickets to deliver tooling that turns a first-touch developer into a production integration in one afternoon.
- Engaged collaborator working cross-functionally with API Engineering, Product, Security, Support, and Solutions Engineering inside a DevRel Engineering team embedded with the SDK and API platform org, contributing to weekly API design reviews, friction-log triage, and the release planning that ties SDK versions to product roadmaps.
- Mentor who shares craft and fosters a culture of every code sample runs in CI before it ships and adoption tracked on time-to-first-API-call, weekly active integrations, and SDK upgrade rates through paired SDK reviews and release retros, while running a monthly SDK review with API Engineering and an Atlanta identity-engineering meetup and publishing internal DevRel Engineering playbooks the rest of the team picks up.
Technical Skills
- SDKs & Libraries:
- TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, semantic versioning, monorepo with Turborepo, library bundling with tsup and rollup, contract tests for API parity, type-safe codegen from OpenAPI, npm and PyPI publishing
- CLI & Tooling:
- a Node and oclif CLI, command scaffolding, interactive prompts, plugin architecture, shell completions for bash and zsh, signed releases via GoReleaser, homebrew tap publishing
- Reference Apps & Demos:
- Next.js, Remix, SvelteKit, React Native and Expo, starter templates pinned to LTS, end-to-end auth flows, deploy buttons for Vercel and Cloudflare, fixtures for local dev
- Docs Engineering:
- Docusaurus with MDX, OpenAPI to docs codegen, code samples tested in CI, versioned docs with redirects, search via Algolia DocSearch, interactive API explorer, contribution guides
- Developer Experience & API Design:
- SDK ergonomics review, API design feedback on JSON shapes and error envelopes, time-to-first-API-call instrumentation, friction logs, paired RFCs with API Engineering
- Open Source & Releases:
- GitHub repo ownership, semantic-release with changesets, conventional commits, contributor docs, triage rotations, CodeQL and Dependabot, release notes generated from PR labels
- Technical Content & Workshops:
- engineering blog posts grounded in working repos, deep-dive tutorials, video walkthroughs with code-along repos, conference workshops, codelabs, runnable Replit and StackBlitz embeds
- Community & Support:
- GitHub Issues triage, Discord and Slack debugging, Stack Overflow tag, reproducing customer bugs in minimal repos, contributing fixes back via PRs, office hours and AMAs
- Credentials & Education:
- B.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Tech, CNCF Kubernetes Application Developer, prior software engineering experience on identity and back-end APIs
Education
Georgia Institute of
Technology
B.S. in Computer
Science
Work Experience
Auth0 (Okta)
Senior DevRel
Engineer
- Owned the engineering side of DevRel for the Auth0 SDKs, CLI, and reference applications across the identity platform supporting 38,000 monthly active integrations across 5 official languages, paired with 4 API engineering leads on the SDK roadmap, release cadence, and the developer-facing surface of every new feature.
- Built and maintained the SDK and library portfolio around type-safe client libraries generated from OpenAPI with hand-tuned ergonomics, shipping 7 official SDKs across TypeScript, Python, Go, and Java, cutting 62 semver releases a year, and clearing 410k weekly downloads across the portfolio.
- Shipped production-grade reference apps and starter templates with end-to-end auth reference apps with login, MFA, RBAC, and session refresh, releasing 18 reference repositories centered on Next.js, Remix, and React Native, and earning 12,400 cumulative GitHub stars across the portfolio.
- Ran documentation engineering on a Docusaurus pipeline with code samples tested in CI and OpenAPI-generated reference, owning 240 docs pages, executing 320 runnable code samples on every build, and cutting docs bounce rate from 54% to 31% after the rewrite of the quickstarts and SDK reference.
- Drove API and DX improvement through dogfooded SDKs, paired API design RFCs, and a friction log that fed Engineering sprints, cutting median time-to-first-API-call on the free tier from 28 minutes to 6 minutes and co-authoring 9 API design RFCs on error envelopes, pagination, and webhook signatures that landed in the next platform release.
- Wrote technical content and tutorials around engineering deep-dives and tutorials, each backed by a runnable repo and a video walkthrough, shipping 34 posts on the engineering blog, recording 220 minutes of video tutorials, and lifting quickstart-to-first-call signup completion from 42% to 68% on the rewritten onboarding flow.
- Ran community support and integration debugging via GitHub Issues triage, Discord debugging, and PR-backed fixes on the customer repos, triaging 1,650 GitHub Issues a year, landing 140 fix PRs back into the SDKs and reference apps, and holding first response on developer questions under 3 hours on weekdays.
Twilio
Software Engineer,
Developer Experience
- Closed the product feedback and internal advocacy loop with a friction log fed by real SDK usage, customer repros, and a weekly API design review, filing 210 detailed friction tickets, landing 48 DX improvements on the product roadmap, and partnering with 5 engineering teams on the rollout with named customer quotes.
- Maintained the open source helper libraries as maintainer on the Node and Python helper libraries with semantic-release and changesets, reviewing and merging 380 community pull requests, onboarding 62 external contributors with paired walkthroughs, and growing 5,800 GitHub stars across the owned repositories.
- Ran conference talks and technical workshops with hands-on workshops backed by a clone-and-run repo, plus deep-dive talks on the messaging API, delivering 16 sessions across SignalConf and regional meetups, reaching 2,800 workshop attendees, and clearing 180k replay views on the uploaded recordings.
- Owned integration and partner enablement via PoCs and sample integrations the field team handed to partner engineers, enabling 22 partner engineering teams, shipping 14 PoC repositories the partners forked into production, and cutting average integration time from 6 weeks to 11 days after the paired enablement program.