I lead developer community growth and program operations for Meta Horizon Start, Meta's VR developer platform. In this role, I oversee four external vendor teams and coordinate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to serve as the primary touchpoint for our third-party VR developers.

My impact includes:

Scaling the community by 109% (from 2,200 to 4,600 developers) through strategic engagement and Discord building.

Coordinating a $1.5M developer competition with 1,600+ participants, managing everything from budget to mentorship.

Building a Discord strategy that serves as the primary channel for support and feedback.

Establishing feedback loops that directly influence the product roadmap based on community insights.

Developing operational playbooks for forums, town halls, playtesting events, and developer support to reduce resolution times and create repeatable processes

Launching developer education programs including a YouTube channel, GitHub repositories, monthly onboarding calls, and workshops to empower developers

On Samsung NEXT's platform team, I supported 80+ portfolio companies across AI, robotics, and edge infrastructure. My role was to connect startups with enterprise partners, advise founders on developer and go-to-market strategy, and provide subject matter expertise in AI and developer relations to Samsung's internal teams and corporate partners.

My impact includes:

Growing the partner network 20% in 12 months, adding 60+ new partnerships across 350+ strategic relationships with Fortune 1000 companies for portfolio startups

Advising AI/ML portfolio companies on go-to-market strategy, developer community growth, and platform adoption

Launching Samsung NEXT's inaugural Generative AI Hackathon with Google Cloud, bringing together 100+ participants and 6 technology partners including Intel and AWS

Providing subject matter expertise in AI, developer relations, and emerging technology to Samsung's enterprise partners and internal strategy teams

Led developer community strategy and execution for Jina AI's open source neural search platform, working across engineering, product marketing, and business development to grow the global developer base and establish Jina AI's presence in the MLOps ecosystem.

My impact includes:

Growing the developer community 150% to 40,000+ users globally through advocacy programs, technical content, and strategic engagement across AI/ML communities

Managing the transfer of DocArray to the Linux Foundation AI & Data, handling governance setup, stakeholder alignment, and change management across open source and enterprise partners

Securing Jina AI's first major U.S. enterprise proof of concept with Deloitte for multimodal AI solutions

Building a repeatable PoC execution framework for AI/ML partner engagements that streamlined collaboration workflows and accelerated time to value

Creating technical content and developer resources including blogs, tutorials, and documentation to drive platform adoption and onboarding

I ran a 6-person team delivering AI, software, and developer strategy projects for enterprise clients on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Clients included Samsung, Intuit, Etsy, Amazon Fresh, and Matterport.

My impact includes:

Matterport: Relaunching the developer program for their AR/VR spatial computing platform, driving third-party developer adoption and platform engagement

Intuit: Managing large-scale AI and engineering programs across cross-functional teams, tracking KPIs to drive alignment between engineering and product

Etsy: Delivering FinOps and engineering programs for global teams within budget constraints, improving ML implementation for two products and launching a GDPR compliance initiative

Samsung: Managing the Bixby AI Assistant launch to third-party developers, achieving 15% year-over-year growth in developer engagement and API usage

Amazon Fresh: Delivering a proof of concept for an ML-optimized order fulfillment system, coordinating engineering and operations teams to demonstrate automation potential

I managed internal developer education programs and platform adoption initiatives for Google's Developer Productivity team, serving 60,000+ engineers across the global organization. The team creates courses and documentation for tier-one platforms, frameworks, and tools used by Google engineers to build products like Gmail and Google Docs.