A developer relations professional and technical generalist with 10+ years of experience building and growing developer communities through strategic content, hands-on demos, and authentic engagement.
On the technical side, I'm proficient in Python, JavaScript, and PHP with extensive experience building production applications using LLM APIs and agent harnesses.
I combine deep technical credibility with strong communication skills, having spoken at industry conferences for nearly 10 years, to bridge the gap between complex AI concepts and diverse developer audiences.
Experience
Developer Relations Lead, Retool; Remote — Oct 2025 - Present
- Leading builder-focused video strategy on YouTube to drive developer engagement and product adoption
- Engaging directly with developers and builders across LinkedIn, Twitter/X, and other social platforms
- Responsible for content strategy and execution for 2nd AI Build Week, attracting 1000 attendees across the half-week event
Featured Video:- Introducing Enterprise AppGen: AI-Assisted Development from Retool (6M+ views)
Technical Product Marketing Manager, Retool; Remote — Feb 2024 - Oct 2025
- Led product marketing for Retool's Agents launch, coordinating cross-functionally with EPD and teams across the company
- Created and ran the first AI Build Week, Retool's most successful webinar series to date with 2000 attendees
- Established internal AI Office Hours program running weekly to upskill the entire team on AI capabilities within and beyond Retool
- Produced video assets that drove significant sales-qualified opportunities as reported by the sales team
- Ran near-monthly webinars achieving some of the highest registration counts per session in company history
- Published extensive content on LLMs and generative AI for Retool blog and personal publication FloorboardAI
Featured Video:Developer Advocate, Airplane; Remote — Mar 2023 - Dec 2023
- Owned the content strategy for the Airplane blog, creating ~25 pieces of original technical and tutorial content
- Supported the migration and integration of ~200 acquired content pieces from the ContainIQ blog
- Produced video demos and was the technical advisor on written content for Airplane's first-ever launch week
Writer, Draft.dev; Remote — 2020 - 2023
- Completed over sixty 1500-word technical written pieces for clients across topics including engineering management, DevOps, and specific technical implementations
- Asynchronously worked with editors to capture the voice of the client and emphasize key points prior to publishing
Writing Samples:- The Case for Granular Permissions
- Chef vs. Docker for Builds and Deployments
Co-Founder and CTO, Alpha Particle; Chicago, IL — 2017 - 2023
- Grew agency from inception to nearly $500k in yearly revenue through developer relations activities in the WordPress community
- Managed and code-reviewed work from a dev team of 3 (full-time hires and contractors), ensuring code quality and best practices
- Directed and completed projects for diverse clients from large publishers (RollingStone.com, Variety.com) to small businesses
- Built WordPress development solutions and custom integrations for enterprise clients
Technical Architect, doejo; Chicago, IL — 2016 - 2017
- Advised development teams on multiple projects across the entire agency on technical strategy and execution based on individual clients' needs
- Worked directly with the sales team to align sales goals, targets, and language with realistic capabilities of the agency’s technical team
- Frequently attended industry conferences to form agency-level partnerships and present our work more broadly
- Mentored junior developers and upskilled dev teams
Speaking
- Nearly 10 years of public speaking experience at industry conferences on topics including software development, GenAI, developer best practices, and platform-specific demos
Recent Talks:- Building an AI Air Traffic Controller Agent using LLMs and Graph Databases — Neo4j NODES 2025
- Designing Automations with Workflows and Agents: Turning Insights into Action — Retool
- AI to app in minutes: Visualizing U.S. Government web traffic with Retool — Retool
- An AI Crash Course for WordPress Users and Developers — Podcast
Side Projects
- crunch.fyi — Uses the Claude Agent SDK to generate satirical TechCrunch articles
- claudecodeformarketers.com — A blog about Claude Code and how to use it
- keanan.fun — A collection of side projects and experiments
Education
Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL — Economics Major, Computer Science Minor, 2014