This panel is tailored for Developer Relations professionals, open source contributors, and tech community enthusiasts looking to deepen their understanding of DevRel in open source platforms. Our speakers will share their experiences and strategies for balancing community needs with company goals, sustaining open source ecosystems, and measuring success in DevRel.

Aditya Oberai is a Developer Advocate at Appwrite and a tech community and hackathon enthusiast. With extensive experience in APIs, web and cross-platform apps, and cloud computing, Aditya has spent the last 5 years empowering tech communities. He is a Microsoft MVP, a National Winner in the Education category at Microsoft Imagine Cup 2021 India Chapter, and was named among Major League Hacking's Top 50 hackers of 2021. Recently, he was awarded "Best Developer Relations Professional of the Year" at the CMX Community Industry Awards 2024.

Caroline Frasca leads developer relations and partnerships for Streamlit's open-source Python library. Previously, she led customer success for Streamlit pre-acquisition and worked as a Solution Architect at Klaviyo. Caroline is a UNC Chapel Hill Tar Heel, has two rambunctious cats, and loves to crochet.

Andy Piper is the Developer Relations Lead at Mastodon. With a background at Twitter, Cloud Foundry, and IBM, Andy is renowned for his advocacy for the MQTT protocol and has contributed to the Developer Relations profession for 15 years and open source for over 20 years. Named among the top influencers in open technology in the OpenUK New Year honours list in 2023, Andy also co-hosts a weekly tech podcast (Games at Work dot biz) and enjoys creating art using robots.

Meet Your Host

Jon Gottfried, Co-Founder at MLH! Jon was an early Developer Evangelist at Echo Nest and Twilio, and has been working on building developer communities and platform partnerships at Major League Hacking for the last 10 years.