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Shedrack Akintayo

Software Engineer | Technical Writer | CNCF Ambassador | International Speaker | UK Global Talent

London, England

Overview 

Shedrack Akintayo is a Software Engineer and Technical Writer with a background in DevRel and Developer Advocacy roles at notable companies like Cisco, Cloud Foundry Foundation, and Isovalent. As a CNCF Ambassador and international speaker, he has contributed to Kubernetes as a Release Team Contributor and founded the DevRel Community Africa, showcasing expertise in API Management, Cloud Computing, and DevOps. Highlights of Shedrack's career include founding the DevRel Community Africa and contributing to Kubernetes as a Release Team Contributor. Currently, he serves as a Software Engineer and Technical Writer with a focus on API Management, Cloud Computing, and Developer Relations.

Work Experience 

  • Founder

    2022 - Current

    DevRel Community Africa is a non-profit community of developer relations experts and enthusiasts mainly from all the parts of Africa that exists to share the gospel of developer relations, help each other learn and grow as much as possible.

  • Release Team Contributor

    2024

    - v1.31, v1.32, v1.33 Release Team - Serving as a member of the Docs team

  • Technical Marketing Engineer

    2024 - 2024

    Isovalent was acquired by Cisco in April 2024.

Cisco DevNet is your source for everything developer at Cisco Systems.

  • Community Manager

    2023 - 2024

    Helping build the eBPF and Cilium open source community

Isovalent builds open-source networking, service mesh, security, and observability software for modern cloud-native infrastructure

Raised $69,000,000.00 from Mirae Asset Capital, Cisco, Grafana Accelerator Program, Andreessen Horowitz, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Mango Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Google.

  • Developer Relations Manager

    2022 - 2023

    Led Developer Relations, Support, Content and Community (Impacted by layoffs)

  • Technical Author

    2020 - 2023

    Working as a freelance technical author to produce technical articles on the company’s blog. I write content on frontend development with JavaScript and ReactJS

LogRocket is a frontend monitoring and product analytics platform that enables developers to capture granular experience data.

Raised $55,000,000.00 from Battery Ventures and Delta-v Capital.

  • Senior Technical Writer

    2022 - 2022

    - Rewrote major parts of the Stackbit official documentation - Helped migrate the Stackbit official documentation from Gatsby to Next.js - Worked on technical blog posts to educate Stackbit users - Fixed a major bug in the create-stackbit-app package that hindered windows users from installing the package - Wrote migration guides for users who want to migrate their sites from xyz product to Stackbit

  • Developer Relations Engineer

    2021 - 2022

    Platform.sh is an end-to-end cloud PaaS that lets you launch, run and scale whatever kind of application you’re building. In my role as a Developer Relations Engineer, I created content to educate the world about the business benefits of using Platform.sh, spoke at events, built templates, demos, and SDKs for the product.

  • Lead Developer Advocate

    2020 - 2021

    - Established a Developer Relations program - Built out various developer engagement initiatives - Engaged with and educated the Cloud Foundry community - Content production(videos, blogposts, livestreams)

  • Technical Author

    2020 - 2020

    Worked as a freelance technical author to produce technical articles for the company. I wrote content on frontend development with JavaScript and ReactJS

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