Jul 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

• As the founding Head of DevRel, I built and ran the team from the post-seed round through to our successful acquisition by Docker. AtomicJar is the company behind the open-source Testcontainers libraries, and my mandate was to build the engine that drove global developer adoption.
• Foundational leadership: built and led the DevRel function across multiple language ecosystems (Java, Golang, .NET, Node.js, Python). Crafted the team’s OKRs and coached our advocates and the engineering team on technical writing and public speaking.
• Strategic content engine: owned the content roadmap and strategy, establishing the company’s blog, hands-on guides, and technical workshops from scratch. Planned and lead the implementation of the guides series which resulted in 30% increase of website organic traffic.
• Community & program management: founded the Testcontainers Community Champions program to scale and reward open-source advocacy. Partnered tightly with marketing to align field events, product messaging, and community trust-building.
• Ecosystem & customer enablement: represented the company globally, delivering technical sessions on developer productivity, Kubernetes, and open-source frameworks at major conferences. I also ran targeted, in-house technical workshops for potential customers to accelerate enterprise adoption.

Oct 2021 – Jun 2022 · 8 mos

Feb 2018 – Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Tartu, Estonia

• The mission of the DevRel team is too inspire developers to build the next generation of amazing applications with GraalVM through understanding what problems are they trying to solve and providing them with tools and knowledge to become successful at it.
• As a lead developer advocate my work is primarily with:
• externally with the community of developers (Java, other JVM languages, Ruby, JavaScript, Python, etc) to drive experimentation, evaluation, and adoption of GraalVM technologies.
• internally with the engineering and product teams to help them explore the community around GraalVM and build better features and the product for serving the needs of the community.
• with the developer relations team to mentor, inspire, and lead our actions for better outreach, clarity of the messaging, and more powerful content creation.
• Developer relations team is a bidirectional channel between your ecosystem and community on one end and the product, marketing, and engineering teams on the other. My role as a developer advocate to drive the information between these two worlds and make that as efficient as possible.

Jun 2014 – Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• As a developer advocate, I was building a community of Java developers that are aware and love ZeroTurnaround's products.
• RebelLabs: responsible for maintaining the company blog, producing and managing the publication of the technical content about Java/JVM, software engineering, best practices, programming; how-tos, guides, and research pieces. Wrote more than 100 blog posts for RebelLabs, worked with the external authors for co-producing and publishing guest blog posts. Lead SEO efforts.
• Launched a series of 1-page printable cheat sheets about all kinds of Java-related topics.
• Wrote and managed the production of the RebelLabs Developer productivity report 2017: Why do you use Java tools that you use? Created the survey for the report, promoted it, analyzed the data, wrote the report, managed the design, publication, and post-promotion.
• VirtualJUG: co-leader of the online JUG, responsible for overseeing the community, scheduling the meetups, inviting the speakers, hosting the sessions, producing write-ups of the presentations, interviewing the speakers.
• GDG Tartu: co-founded a GDG chapter in Tartu, a small community of developers interested in all kinds of technologies, helped with organizing and hosting meetups.
• Conferences: presented technical sessions at many international conferences, including several JavaOnes, JPoint, Devoxx US, Belgium, Poland; JavaZone, JFokus, GeekOut, SpringIO, GeeCon, EclipseCon, JavaLand, JSpring and JFall, etc.
• Helped to organize several editions of GeekOut, the largest Java conference in Baltics. From helping to organize it on-site, to hosting a track of sessions, helping the speakers, gathering the feedback from the attendees. In 2016, I was a part of the content committee.
• Helped to run two very successful editions of vJUG24, online only Java conference spanning 24 hours, from being in the content committee to preparing the infrastructure for the online event, managing the speakers and online participants during the event.

Mar 2011 – Jun 2014 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Make software that magically allows Java developers and DevOps teams who manage Java applications suffer much less through their work. And other awesome stuff :)

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr · Tartu, Estonia

• Teaching assistant for courses:
• Advanced algorithmics (2011):
• I've led practice sessions introducing the main concepts and principles of algorithm design and analysis
• Programming challenges (2012):
• A practical course preparing students for the ACM ICPC competitions

Sep 2009 – Feb 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Backend developer for online gaming platform.

Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 · 2 yrs

• Was developing a healthcare platform, JEE, web-interface, oracle database, JMS integrations with services.