Steering Committee
The Steering Committee provides oversight and continuity for the Developer Relations Foundation (DRF) and its initiatives.
About Jonathan LeBlanc
Jonathan LeBlanc is an Emmy award-winning software engineer for pioneering live streaming video services, author of O'Reilly books 'Identity and Data Security for Web Development' and 'Programming Social Applications', and former board member of the OAuth, OpenID, and OpenSocial specification groups. Currently the VP and GM of Platform at TraceLink, he spent his career architecting platform, product, and devrel organizations globally.
About Katie Miller
Katie Miller is a Developer Marketing leader who has built and managed developer programs and marketing initiatives for Slack, Asana, and Google. While her career has taken some interesting twists and turns, at its core, she has been committed to creating a better world by empowering people through knowledge and connection. She serves in leadership roles on multiple non-profit boards and is passionate about community building and governance.
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.
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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