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I was an early employee at Engine Yard 🚂, GitHub 🐙🐱, and Travis CI 🚜👷🏽♂️. I advise devtools founders, angel invest, and have backed 20+ developer-focused startups—including companies acquired by Meta, Datadog, Atlassian, and Hugging Face.
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I work with devtools founders past early traction who are figuring out the developer-to-enterprise motion — the awkward stretch where the product developers love needs to start winning over IT, security, or procurement. Three times early at companies navigating that exact transition. Ping me.
I back developer-focused startups, usually at the earliest stages. Raising for something devtools-shaped? Email me.
I've spoken at conferences on five continents — on sales for engineers, documentation, and developer communities. Want me at your event? Email me.
Whether you like it or not you are doing sales all the time. Convincing your boss to use a new tool, applying for a job, and getting a freelance contract all require selling. Being aware of that fact and spending some time to learn how to do sales the right way will help you talk about your product and convince your boss to try something new. Sales doesn't have to be sleazy — and everyone needs to know how to do it.
Most developers hate writing documentation, yet we complain about how tools and libraries we use lack it. How do you get developers to write good documentation without feeling like they're wasting their time? This talk explores both the philosophy and the practical tools — TomDoc, YarDoc, RDoc — and how to manage documentation for a live product.
Ruby has matured into a large and diverse community. With that growth comes an influx of new developers who need to find their footing. This talk is about making sure experienced developers help newcomers feel welcome — and showing that how we treat each other shapes what our community can accomplish together.
Whether new to version control or just needing a thorough explanation of Git and GitHub, this talk covers distributed version control concepts and typical GitHub workflows through practical demonstrations — branching, merging, undoing mistakes, and hosting web-based games on GitHub Pages.
Writing from over the years — plain-English explainers for Technically, plus posts from my Engine Yard days.