Steering Committee
The Steering Committee provides expectations, timelines, tools, and regular oversight and continuity for working groups and the Developer Relations Foundation (DRF) and its initiatives.
About Stacey Kruczek
Stacey Kruczek is a Developer Relations leader and founding Steering Committee member of the Developer Relations Foundation. With nearly a decade in DevRel, she has built and scaled developer communities, champion programs, and dev-first marketing strategies that drive real business impact. She bridges the gap between technical communities and business objectives, ensuring devs have the resources and support they need to succeed.
About Wesley Faulkner
Wesley Faulkner is a podcaster, public speaker, advocate for social change, and Developer Relations professional. He has worked for companies like AMD, Atlassian, Dell, IBM, and MongoDB. Wesley co-hosts two podcasts: Community Pulse, which explores the challenges and opportunities of community building in Developer Relations, and Radical Respect, which features conversations with Kim Scott on creating more inclusive and equitable workplaces.
About Jayson DeLancey
Jayson serves as Head of Developer Relations for Semgrep. Since studying at Carnegie Mellon, he's undertaken a career-long pursuit to understand how people build, adopt, and use technology. He is passionate about improving the developer experience regardless of industry, role, or technical community, having worked for Dolby, HERE, General Electric, Rackspace, Dreamworks, and MathWorks.
About Aditya Oberai
Aditya is a Developer Advocate at Appwrite and an avid tech community and open-source enthusiast. He has spent the last 6 years empowering tech communities and is currently an active Microsoft MVP and DigitalOcean Wavemaker. Aditya has been awarded Best Developer Relations Professional of the Year at the CMX Community Industry Awards 2024 and was a core organizer of DevRelCon Bengaluru 2024.
About Arun Gupta
Arun Gupta is a globally recognized expert in Developer Relations, open source strategy, and go-to-market innovation. He is the VP of Developer Experience at JetBrains, leading the effort to connect with the global developer community and external partners. With over 25 years of experience at Intel, Apple, Amazon, and Red Hat, Arun advocates mindfulness, kindness, and developer empathy as the foundation of modern DevRel.
About Divya Mohan
Divya Mohan is a Principal Technology Advocate at SUSE, playing a pivotal role in advancing the company’s open source projects and nurturing the community around them. Outside of her day job, she builds and maintains several tech communities by engaging with diverse global stakeholders. With over a decade of experience, Divya leverages her expertise to make open source tech and communities more accessible and innovative.
About Tabs Fakier
Tabs is a DevRel Engineer and serial community builder, with 15+ years experience in the latter. Hailing from a diverse background of design, tech, academia, and industry, she's now dedicated towards building in open-source projects and communities. That and promoting DevRel in APAC; AUNZ in particular.
Foundation Staff
Linux Foundation Staff provide guidance and expertise to support our mission.
About Ana Jiménez
Ana Jiménez works as a Senior Project Manager at the Linux Foundation, supporting an open source community spread across four continents with over 3,000 practitioners. She serves as Project Manager for the TODO Group and DevRel Foundation and leads the strategy for the PyTorch Foundation Outreach Program, developing educational materials and initiatives to promote the adoption of the open source machine learning framework.
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