Oct 2024 – Nov 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru · Hybrid

• Community Growth
• Scaled community from 800 to 2,500+ members
• Office hours live sessions on Personalize, Automate, Modular Content
• Bi-weekly livestreams and active Discord engagement
• Hackathons (External & Internal)
• Managed end-to-end operations for TechSurf 2025 - A Pan India Hackathon for final year students, running for 2 months, in educating about contentstack and providing developer accounts to test and provide feedback to internal engineering teams.
• Did 4 AMA Live sessions on Discord & Zoom with participants for clearing doubts on problem statements and helping them with a clear roadmap.
• Helped with Linkedin Live setup for final announcement of winner
• (Internal) Helped launch dxphackathon2025, an internal competition for building solutions around fixing existing bugs, discovering new solutions around AI, product improvements for delivering great digital (developer) experiences for customers and content teams.
• Events & Advocacy
• Hosted, organized and managed 50 events (offline + online) across Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Bangalore & Hyderabad.
• Delivered 18 talks on MCP, DXP, CMS with GDG, AWS, DigitalOcean, Civo, MongoDB, Snapchat, Postman, React India, React Bangalore.
• Launched The Edge Forum — senior tech leader meetup with GenAI, Product, Engineering tracks
• Hosted a 1 hour workshop on integrating Contentstack MCP to AI Agent using Cursor, in collaboration with Postman Community, Pune.
• Delivered a talk on MACH (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-Native, Headless) at Google Developers Group Hyderabad in 2024.
• Content & Storytelling
• Author of The DevRail Express newsletter on DXP and engineering with real-life analogies
• Lytics + Contentstack integration demo for enterprise personalization and automation
• Code & Innovation
• Guide for connecting Contentstack MCP with starter app using Cursor IDE
• VisionOS app in SwiftUI demonstrating Contentstack SDK for immersive content delivery
• https://www.rohankokkula.dev/portfolio/Work/Contentstack

Jun 2024 – Aug 2024 · 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

• 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁:
• Successfully increased Weekly Active Users (WAUs) from 22 to an all-time high of 84 by implementing various engagement strategies that fostered a vibrant and active community.
• Weekly Product Release Updates: Regularly shared updates with the community to inform them about new features, improvements, and upcoming releases. These updates were not only informative but also aimed at generating excitement and anticipation among users.
• Regular Polls and Feedback Collection: Conducted polls to gather feedback on new features, understand user preferences, and gauge overall sentiment about the product. This approach helped in making informed decisions about future developments based on the community’s input.
• Community Spotlights and Introductions: Introduced key Bito employees to the community through posts and live sessions. This initiative encouraged users to engage with the team, ask questions, and share their experiences, creating a sense of belonging and connection.
• 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀:
• Played a key role in driving the adoption of the AI Code Review Agent within open-source projects.
• Reached out to 15 open-source projects and successfully ran the agent in their official pull requests (PRs) using the Bito CLI.
• This initiative helped build awareness and encouraged developers to integrate the AI tool into their workflows.

Aug 2023 – Jun 2024 · 10 mos · Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Remote

• Led the development of Botpress App for Shopify, enhancing e-commerce experiences with features like upselling, product search and intelligent bot interactions.
• Engaged with Exclusive Developers from the Botpress' Discord Community for conducting surveys.
• Focused on enhancing developer experience and community engagement through proactive support and resource creation.
• Conducted live support sessions, participated in community discussions, created educational content, developed projects for simplified onboarding, and offered hands-on assistance for technical issues.
• Achieved increased engagement, impactful content, improved onboarding, and efficient issue resolution.
• Stack: Remix.js framework, Shopify Storefront & Admin APIs, Polaris (Design Framework), Fly.io (Deployment), TypeScript, Node.js

Jul 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Remote

• Advocated for integrating user feedback into the product development cycle.
• Developed and delivered comprehensive Botpress training, ensuring clients could maximize product value.
• Incorporated PLG(Product-Led-Growth) principles in the roadmap, emphasizing user-influenced product evolution.
• Projects
• Nvidia Riva: Led the integration project, enhancing Botpress bots with advanced text-to-speech features.
• Botpress Styler: Developed and maintained a Next.js-based web app for customizing Botpress webchat interfaces.
• OpenBook QnA Automation: Contributed to the development of an ML-driven tool for auto-generating QnAs, streamlining content creation.
• Clients I've worked for: Tesla, McDonalds UK, GoDaddy, Intuit, Mercedes Benz, PayPal, KeyTexting, DevRefactory, and Logisco and more.

Jul 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr · Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Remote

• Created 30+ product explainer videos for our youtube channel and 50+ internal videos for demos.
• Built Botpress Learning Center (Guides, videos, & interactive elements to master Botpress, chatbots, and conversational AI) from scratch.
• Maintained the Botpress Community(hosted on Discourse) with latest news and discussion threads.
• Migrated all the Discourse Threads to Github Discussions using Github API

Dec 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Phase 1: Sketched the idea from scratch, drew wireframes, conducted user interviews, understood user journeys.
• Phase 2: Introduced 8 variations of the app in figma, with colors, fonts, spacings, assets, paths.
• Phase 3: Figma to Flutter. Became a bridge between the designs and tech to create the app.
• Phase 4: post launch, reduces 30% screen taps by research from phase 3.

Jan 2021 – Jun 2021 · 5 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Used T5 Transformer Model to build a Question Answering Model which generates questions based on Keywords extracted (WordNet, Sense2Vec) from studyshot notes.
• Built an MCQ Generation model using BERT
• Developed a personalized Chatbot using Rasa (Botfront.io).
• Created an Automatic Thumbnail Generator & Uploader for our youtube videos using Youtube v3 API
• Worked on OpenAI's semantic search engine.
• I served my other side skills too.
• Created a Clean MaterialUI Design for prototyping and design fixing before production-ready of APP
• Created FrontEnd components for StudyShot website
• Worked on recommendation system for concept notes and questions based on student's behavior on our Flutter App(tracking)

Nov 2020 – Jan 2021 · 2 mos

• Project-wise work right from Data Annotation using LabelMe & LabelImg for Fire Detection from Camera.
• Later used Yolo v5 for object detection.

Apr 2020 – Jun 2020 · 2 mos

• A 2-month Data Science program conducted by Consulting and Analytics Club, IIT Guhawati.
• Learned usage of python in Machine Learning, got introduced to various Data Visualisation techniques, dealt with Neural networks, and finally competed in Kaggle Hackathon ranking 135 (top 16 %ile) among 854 Kaggle participants
• Ranked 85 out of 1500+ students for overall performance.

Apr 2020 – Jun 2020 · 2 mos · Remote

• My role at Listnr included a lot of research work about Audio Encoders and Vocoders and Speech Synthesis in general.
• Worked on some SOTA Inference TTS Models such as TacoTron2, FastSpeech2, and Wavenet.
• Also had hands-on with real-time voice cloning algorithm.

Jun 2019 – Aug 2019 · 2 mos

• Designed Mailers, Cover letters for client companies mainly Castrol and gave a retouch to their website using particles.js javascript framework.

Aug 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Designed various posters for the events conducted by ACM

Jul 2017 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr

• Created various posters, pamphlets, flexes for Student Council cultural events such as Nucleya, Armaan Malik Concerts, Fresher's Eve and many more.