Josh Dzielak

Co-Founder

Paris, Île-de-France, France19 yrs 8 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Co-founded Orbit, acquired by Postman.
Expert in building developer communities.
Strong background in AI and API development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on developer relations and community building.

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Skills

Core Skills

ApisAiCommunity BuildingOpen SourceDeveloper RelationsClient ManagementDeveloper AdvocacyTeam BuildingContent CreationAnalyticsAuthenticationOpen Source ToolingSocial NetworkingRailsSoftware DesignJavaWeb Development

Other Skills

Postman API NetworkOrbit ModelAlgoliaSoftware DevelopmentStart-upsJavaScriptCommunityRuby on RailsAgile MethodologiesRubyEntrepreneurshipCloud ComputingDatabasesStand-up ComedyImprovisational Comedy

About

Software engineer and entrepreneur from the U.S. now living in Paris. Career rooted in engineering, developer experience and open source communities. After roles at API-driven startups Keen IO and Algolia—and starting a DevRel consultancy—I co-founded Orbit in 2019 to help companies build and manage thriving communities. Backed by a16z and Coatue, Orbit raised $20M+ and grew to more than 50 employees, supporting thousands of organizations before being acquired by Postman in 2024. Today at Postman, I’m focused on AI, APIs, and MCP.

Experience

Postman

Staff Engineer

Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs · Paris, Île-de-France, France

Working on AI + MCP tooling to help developers take advantage of the Postman API Network

AIAPIsPostman API Network

Orbit

Co-Founder & CTO

Sep 2019 – Apr 2024 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France

Acquired by Postman in 2024. Orbit's mission is to help our customers build wildly successful communities, feeding back tons of value into the community and the business. We are the creators and maintainers of the Orbit Model, an open source framework for visualizing and measuring communities. Backed by a16z, Coatue, Heavybit, and a fantastic team of angels.

Community BuildingOpen SourceOrbit Model

Developermode

Co-Founder

Apr 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France

Started DeveloperMode to help companies build better relationships with developers. Clients include Square, StackShare and Forestry. DeveloperMode became Orbit in September 2019.

Developer RelationsClient Management

Algolia

2 roles

Developer Relations Lead

Promoted

Jun 2017 – Feb 2018 · 8 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Built a team of developer advocates across the US and Europe.

Team BuildingDeveloper Advocacy

Developer Advocate

May 2016 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco, California, United States

First developer advocate at Algolia. Wrote blog posts, built demos, gave talks, launched the forum, and created the Search Party meetup series.

Developer AdvocacyContent Creation

Keen

VP Engineering

Jan 2013 – May 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Architected and built a custom analytics platfom based on Storm, Cassandra, and Kafka. 1B+ events ingested daily. Built Keen's developer community by giving talks, organizing meetups, and creating open source projects.

AnalyticsCommunity Building

The walt disney company

Principal Engineer

Feb 2011 – Apr 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos · Palo Alto, CA

Post-acquisition. Worked on authentication for disney.com and open source tooling. Spoke at Disney's first HTML5 conference.

AuthenticationOpen Source Tooling

Togetherville, inc.

Lead Engineer

Oct 2009 – Feb 2011 · 1 yr 4 mos · Palo Alto, CA

Engineer #1 and founding team member at Togetherville, a safe and educational social network for families. Acquired by The Walt Disney Company. Rails shop and a Pivotal Labs client.

Social NetworkingRails