Shedrack Akintayo
Software Engineer | Technical Writer | CNCF Ambassador | International Speaker | UK Global Talent
London, England
Overview
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
Education
OND
2016 - 2019