Portfolio

For the past few months, GitHub OCTO has been working on Copilot, and I'm bursting with excitement to finally share it with the world! My little crew of badasses did all the storytelling — landing ...

Been reading Frank Chimero's delightful little book, The Shape of Design. Misleadingly named, it is a beautiful essay about creation. Whether or not you are a designer, if you make things — this bo...

Sharing a little teaser of something we've been working on for a long time. Can't wait to share the actual thing with you all!

We launched the first public project from the OCTO Developer Experiences team: Flat Data. We wanted to explore what a git-native, dead-simple framework for data handling would look like — something...

We've been doing a lot of VS Code development, and we wanted the best possible developer experience for ourselves! Happy to share our extension template, which handles a whole pile of fiddly bits t...

I had a blast hosting swyx along with bdougie on the OCTO Speaker Series for a discussion about Developer Communities and the evolving role of developer relations. Fantastically fun and interesting...

We've been building a lot of VS Code extensions at work, and we like Tailwind for styling. This tailwind plugin add's VS Code's theme color variables as Tailwind colors, making it easy to specify c...

We hosted Peter van Hardenberg of Ink & Switch on the OCTO Speaker Series to talk about Local-first computing and tools for thinking. Was a blast and a great discussion afterwards! https://octo.git...

We hosted Fred K. Schott on the OCTO speaker series! Was a great session on the future of JavaScript. https://octo.github.com/speakerseries/FredKSchott

When I first joined GitHub, I had the good fortune to collaborate with Brian on my first project. The Imperial College had just released a paper detailing the findings of their COVID model, and we ...

We hosted Amir Shevat for the GitHub OCTO Speaker Series! of practical wisdom about running DevRel from someone who ran it globally at Google, then Slack, then Twitch. I've been working hard to car...

I started reading this a while back and got distracted, but dove into this again last night. Practical, unfussy writing that feels valuable without being dogmatic. Looking forward to posting insigh...

Javascript for Python Developers at Django Under The Hood 2016

After several years of missed timings, started at Heroku, a company and team I was ecstatic to be a part of. It was only 120 people back then!

Started as a Director of Research in the Office of the CTO at GitHub

Data, Design, Meaning at PyCon 2012

I gave a talk called Static to Animated at IsVis, a conference about data visualization.

DjangoCon US 2011:

In March of 2011, I was invited to join the core development team of Django, a python web framework which I had been involved with for a number of years. That community continues to astound me, tho...

I'm excited to join Polywork as a community architect! As a hybrid, I've always had trouble figuring out how to talk about the work I've done — as a designer, as a developer, and as a product manag...

Back in 2014, one of the key customer complaints at Heroku was a lack of observability for apps. Customers often blamed the platform for performance issues that came from their apps, or felt helple...

I'm hiring prototyping engineers in GitHub's Office of the CTO! Our goal is to investigate things that makes software development safer, easier, faster, and more accessible. I love building the thi...