Zachary Powell

@devwithzachary
Avocado working at Vonage
London
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Zachary Powell is a Developer Relations Manager Vonage.
He has worked as an Android developer since 2009 starting out as a freelancer before switching to work for a company in 2018.
During the pandemic he realised the thing he loved most about tech was educating others! Making the shift into DevRel at the start of 2021, the best decision he ever made!

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I'm open to

guest lecturing,

open source contributions,

speaking at events,

live streaming,

speaking on podcasts,

and content creation.

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Resume

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Sep 2022 - Present

Manager, DevRel, Vonage

Mar 2022 - Sep 2022

Sr Android Developer Advocate, Vonage

Apr 2021 - Mar 2022

Lead Developer Advocate, Huawei Technologies

Mar 2021 - Apr 2021

Developer Advocate, Huawei Technologies

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Spoke at Android Worldwide April 2023

Spoke at FOSDEM 2023

Sponsored Droidcon London

Had an amazing time at Droidcon NYC helping run the Vonage Booth and meeting with Android developers!!

My 2021 Highlights

Attended DroidCon London 2021 Assisting HDG with their booth and knowledge sharing https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6860252297306370048/

Podcasts

Spoke on Launchies by New Relic "Taking Time to Reflect – Doing Better Than You Did Yesterday, Today with Zachary Powell" https://dev.to/newrelic/taking-time-to-reflect-doing-better-than-you-did-ye...

Guest on the Dev Journey PodCast https://devjourney.info/Guests/177-ZacharyPowell

Guest speaker on Incredible Avocados. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KZVJoRIi_U

Guest speaker on Developing Communities: The DevRel Podcast Speaking about how we can make use of new and emerging social media like TikTok as developer advocates

Talks

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Spoke at Android Worldwide

Spoke at Vonage DevCity London

Gave my Keynote talk "From Developer to DevRel, how the Android community helped me grow" at Chicago Roboto https://chicagoroboto.com

Had an amazing time at DroidCon Berlin working on the Vonage both with Paul Ardeleanu and Richard Süselbeck as well as giving two!! talks. Really great to be back in person and getting to speak wit...

Youtube

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New video on how to make an App to App Voice Call In Your Android App. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LijociXcwAw

Released my first guide on Vonage Dev's Youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPCH7yExe-Y

As part of DevFest UKI 2021 I presented a virtual talk on Authentication! https://youtu.be/MmrFEo-3acs?t=3139

Spoke on the Android Expert Pannel at DevFest North America https://youtu.be/FtS0qyARu6Y?t=11418