Virtual Coffee
Founded in April 2020 — a developer community that grew to 1,000+ members across all levels. Weekly events, monthly challenges, a podcast, and Hacktoberfest initiatives running continuously since 2021.
What I Do
I build developer communities that outlast the moment.
I turn complex technical work into content people actually read.
I create the learning paths that move developers forward.
I help teams operate confidently in an AI-shaped world.
I speak, write, and teach across the full developer journey.
Proof of Work
Real results. Real communities.
Real writing.
57%
Increase in pageviews from content strategy at OpenSauced
300+
Developers enrolled in open source courses
1,000+
Member developer community founded from scratch
30%
Monthly view increase after docs infrastructure migration
250+
Community events hosted through Virtual Coffee
Developer Strategy & Execution at OpenSauced
Led content strategy that produced a 57% increase in pageviews and doubled click-through rates over three months. Launched two OSS courses, revamped the newsletter, and migrated docs to a Next.js subdirectory for a 30% monthly view increase.
The Power of Storytelling
Delivered a keynote on human stories in a digital world — the intersection of narrative strategy and developer community. One of several conference talks spanning testing, communication, and open source contribution.
The Invisible Load: How AI Workflows Replace Glue Work
Published at Continue: exploring how composed AI workflows automate coordination work that disproportionately burdens certain team members — changelog updates, cross-team summaries, documentation syncs — freeing people for strategic work.
Developer Growth E-Books
Three free e-books synthesizing 144 blog posts and 7+ years of experience: AI-Augmented Development, From Bootcamp to Career, and Building Community & Sustainable Development.
Every GitHub Repository Should Be a Dataset
A framework piece for OpenSauced exploring how treating repositories as smart datasets could change the way organizations understand their engineering work and open source contributions.
Background
10 years as a college English professor. Bootcamp graduate. Now Sr. Developer Advocate at Continue. The throughline: helping people make sense of complex systems.
Consulting
Team & community consulting services: community discovery, team building, formalizing community structure, and designing intimate learning experiences for in-person and virtual settings.
Podcasts & Media
Co-host of The Virtual Coffee Podcast. Guest on CodeNewbie, The Undefined Podcast, Polyglot Podcast, and more. Hosted 50+ X Spaces on developer topics.
AI & Systems Thinking
Making emerging technology
practical for the teams who use it.
The shift to AI-augmented work isn’t just a tooling question — it’s a systems question. Who coordinates the work? Who translates the signal? Who makes sure clarity travels from strategy to execution? That has always been the hardest part. It still is. I help teams navigate it.
graph LR
A[Signal] -->|interpret| B[Strategy]
B -->|design| C[Systems]
C -->|build| D[Execution]
D -->|measure| E[Measurable Impact]
Signal → Strategy
Reading what’s emerging in AI and developer tooling — and translating it into positioning that teams can act on before it becomes obvious.
Systems → Clarity
Designing content systems, community infrastructure, and documentation frameworks that reduce friction and scale without requiring heroic effort.
AI → Practice
Turning AI adoption from a vague mandate into a practical, learnable workflow — one that augments what developers do rather than replacing how they think.
Execution → Impact
Closing the loop: content strategies tied to measurable outcomes, community programs with defined success metrics, and documentation that gets used.
The Throughline
From teaching college English for a decade to writing production code to building a thousand-person developer community — the common thread is the same: making complex things accessible to the people who need them most. That instinct shows up in content that actually gets read, communities that actually hold together, and AI strategies that actually translate into day-to-day practice. Technical credibility, writing fluency, and cross-functional range — together, not in sequence.
Selective about what I take on.
Committed when I do.
If you’re building something that needs the intersection of technical depth, strategic communication, and community — let’s find out if it’s a fit.