Joshua Nelson
Developer Advocate (DevRel)
Education
- Dean's Honors List (all semesters)
- President of ACM Student Chapter
Experience
- Authored 20+ technical blog posts and tutorials, driving over 50,000 organic unique visitors to the developer portal in 6 months.
- Spoke at 5 major international tech conferences, directly contributing to a 30% increase in developer API signups.
- Managed and scaled the open-source community on Discord from 500 to over 5,000 active members by implementing weekly office hours.
- Collaborated cross-functionally to engineer and deliver core Developer Advocate (DevRel) solutions with 99.9% uptime.
- Participated in automated testing and CI/CD pipelines, accelerating release cycles by 25%.
Projects
- Implemented distributed consensus protocol with leader election and fault-tolerant replicated state machine.
- Benchmarked throughput reaching 100,000 tasks/second across a 5-node cluster.