Haimantika Mitra

Product Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India4 yrs 7 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in developer advocacy and community building.
Led successful initiatives in open-source and developer education.
Strong background in technical writing and content development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Developer Advocate with a strong focus on community engagement and technical education.

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Skills

Core Skills

Developer AdvocacyTechnical WritingContent DevelopmentCommunity DevelopmentApplication Development

Other Skills

JavaScriptPython (Programming Language)Artificial Intelligence (AI)Tailwind CSSCommunity ManagementNext.jsPublic SpeakingCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Brand DevelopmentProblem SolvingProgram ManagementSoftware DevelopmentCommunicationPresentationsSvelte

About

From dreaming about tech in 2020 to enabling builders around the world, my journey has been powered by curiosity, community, and a passion for helping others create. I’m currently a Senior Developer Advocate at DigitalOcean, where I focus on making cloud, GenAI, and modern infrastructure approachable and actionable for developers. I build educational content, demos, and community programs that help developers go from idea → prototype → production. Before DigitalOcean, I grew developer ecosystems at Hashnode, Appwrite, and Microsoft — blending technical writing, product education, developer programs, and hands-on engineering to create real impact. Some highlights include: Helping launch and scale documentation, tutorials, and developer tooling content for diverse developer audiences. Leading initiatives like the Appwrite OSS Fund, supporting open source maintainers and strengthening community ecosystems. Building rich integrations, demos, and educational resources in web, cloud, and GenAI. I’m a product of the community and a believer that technology should be learning-friendly, inclusive, and fun. I enjoy mentoring students, speaking at events, writing tutorials, and creating tools that help developers feel confident building.

Experience

4 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 1 mo

Average Tenure

1 yr 5 mos

Current Experience

Digitalocean

Senior Developer Advocate

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Hyderabad · On-site

Working with DigitalOcean’s Developer Relations team, my work includes:
Helped in building integrations such as Moltbot one-click droplet that positioned DigitalOcean as the cloud that can scale and build AI workflows.
Building demos and open-source applications that showcase how to use DigitalOcean’s products effectively.
Writing technical articles, tutorials, and other content to support developer education and product adoption.
Creating high quality technical videos that contribute to developer education on DigitalOcean products.
Helping build and scale community programs from the ground up — including the DO Wavemakers program and Hacktoberfest.
Speaking about AI, cloud, and general tech topics on Cloud Chats and other community platforms.
Supporting product launches by creating open-source projects and educational content that highlights real-world use cases.
Built nomado.live, a GenAI-powered app using DigitalOcean’s GenAI Platform, App Platform, and Postgres Database — now used by people across the US, India, EU, UK, and Africa. It’s a growing example of what’s possible with a full-stack app on DigitalOcean. It also uses all of DigitalOcean's GenAI platform features, acting as a single app that showcases the full power of the platform.
Worked on the SaaS starter kit that we built to onboard more users building with DigitalOcean. Added features such as invoice generation with DigitalOcean Gradient Platform and also updated the UI.

JavaScriptPython (Programming Language)Artificial Intelligence (AI)Tailwind CSSCommunity ManagementTechnical Writing+2

Hashnode

Developer Advocate

Jan 2024 – Dec 2024 · 11 mos

Responsible for building the DevRel team and leading DevRel efforts for Hashnode.
I work across all the 3C’s of DevRel.
Content:
Building entire Hashnode documentation from scratch. Which involves defining developer onboarding, developer experience and developer journey.
Writing Changelogs, product and weekly newsletter that sees an open-rate of 14%.
Writing technical and thought leadership articles.
Code:
Building with Hashnode Headless
Contributing features to the existing Next.Js starter kit.
Community:
Led the "AI for tomorrow" hackathon hosted by Hashnode that saw 900+ registrations and 130+ submissions.
Growing the Hashnode developer community.
Building programs to grow the Hashnode community.
Organizing meetups and representing Hashnode at various conferences that leads to a revenue generation stream.
Overall:
Worked to build KPIs and metrics to measure the impact of DevRel.
Working to build a successful product with feedback and facilitating community-led growth strategies.

Tailwind CSSCommunity ManagementPublic SpeakingDeveloper advocacyNext.jsTechnical Writing+1

Appwrite

Developer Advocate

Apr 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · Remote

As a Developer Advocate, I was responsible for driving product improvement by focusing on community growth, developer experience and developer education.
Some of my key responsibilities include:
Spearheading the OSS Fund, a year-long initiative designed to provide support to open-source project maintainers. Through this program, I helped build strong partnerships with open-source communities, resulting in increased brand recognition and loyalty. OSS Fund was also nominated in DevRelCon London 2023 under the “Greatest Contribution to Society” category.
Developing and implementing integrations between Appwrite and various platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Astro, Coolify, Twilio, Hugo, Mellisearch, and Autodesk. These integrations were critical in expanding the functionality of our product, resulting in increased user satisfaction and adoption.
Leading Hacktoberfest 2023, where Appwrite was a platinum sponsor.
Providing support to the community, helping new contributors, starting various initiatives like "Office Hours" which made us win the "Most Welcoming Developer Community Award" in DevRelCon 2023.
Writing technical blogs and conducting user-research interviews to improve the developer experience. I also wrote Community Spotlights to highlight the fantastic projects made using Appwrite.
Representing Appwrite at multiple national and international conferences, showcasing live demos, and speaking on leadership topics. Through these events, I built strong relationships with key stakeholders, resulting in increased brand recognition and growth.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Brand DevelopmentProblem SolvingProgram ManagementSoftware DevelopmentPublic Speaking+10

Microsoft

2 roles

Engineer - Outlook and Exchange

Sep 2021 – Apr 2022 · 7 mos

I have worked on:
1. Helping enterprises with solving issues related to Outlook and Exchange
2. Publishing weather forecast connector for Power Platform
3. Building a solution for Microsoft Educator team.
4. Built workshops for student ambassadors.
5. Wrote and led a module on Azure App Service.

Problem SolvingCommunication

Technical Support Engineer

Apr 2021 – Aug 2021 · 4 mos

Operating SystemsProblem SolvingCommunicationMicrosoft Exchange

Buildpacks

LFX Mentee

Jun 2021 – Aug 2021 · 2 mos

Worked on Buildpacks projects which make use of Docker and Golang majorly to convert our source code into runnable app image .
Solved this issue that helped the pack determine the source metadata and build images easily.
I was involved in:
Better understanding of the pack
Understanding spring boot git properties
Reading the output provided by the project descriptor
Inspecting source and version information of the project from project.toml, which will give us the required metadata in the form of json in our final app image.
Inspecting source and version information of the project from git

Go (Programming Language)

Cyclotron, inc. (cyclotron group)

Software Developer

Nov 2020 – Mar 2021 · 4 mos

Building solutions using Microsoft Power Platform, viz, PowerApps, PowerBi, Power Virtual Agent and Power Automate.

Microsoft Power AppsMicrosoft Power AutomateMicrosoft Power BIApplication Programming Interfaces (API)Application Development

Konfhub technologies llp

Community Manager

Aug 2020 – Oct 2020 · 2 mos

1. Contributing to developer advocacy programs for multiple brands.
2. Working with Local Dev Communities to run several community activities.
3. Working closely with Product & Marketing Teams to improve Developer Experiences at On/4. Offline developer advocacy and engagement programs.

Community BuildingProgram Management