that's me
I lead developer experience and ecosystem teams from Portugal. Every program I build works like a course, and I judge it by what people ship.
Developer experience
I run developer experience across docs, education, and tooling. When AI coding assistants didn't know our language, I shipped the tooling that taught them, and I turned community questions into a weekly friction report that engineering acted on.
Ecosystem
I build the programs and partnerships that bring developers in and keep them building, including hackathons with Major League Hacking across 5 regions and a fellowship that turns strong contributors into advocates. Developers enter at their level and leave having shipped something a stranger can use.
About
I taught before I could code: first scuba diving in Belize, then high school English in Seattle. In both, you learn fast that the quietest student is often the one who got lost 4 steps back and is too embarrassed to say so.
Then I learned to code, badly, and became that student. I know exactly what it feels like to read documentation written by someone who has forgotten what it was like not to know.
That's the job, as far as I'm concerned. When an academy I built lost 492 learners, not one of them complained. They all quit at the same step, environment setup, before writing a line of code, which meant it was fixable, and we fixed it.
No one lists on a resume that they were once bad at the thing they now teach, but it's the most useful qualification I have.
Selected work
AI developer tooling
Our language was too new for any AI model to know. I sourced, funded, and shipped 16 Claude Code plugins that load the docs into an agent's context, then check what it writes 5 ways, all the way to running it on a devnet.
Programs, 2025 to 2026
I swapped registrations for a harder measure: whether the team finished with software that runs. That went from 10% to 64% across 4 events. In New Moon to Full, 216 of 247 submissions compiled and 10 teams went live on chain.
Talk, DevRelCon New York 2026
What I learned building developer community for a technology no one had heard of.
Podcast, 2019 to 2023
Lessons from unconventional paths into tech. I created and hosted it for 67 episodes.
Writing, June 2026
Why I tied documentation to what developers built with it instead of pageviews.
Talk, DevRelCon New York 2025
How gamification can supercharge developer engagement, if you design it around what people build.
Path
Player-coach across advocacy, developer education, docs, and developer experience, through mainnet. Built the largest team at the Foundation and owned the budget, the partner agreements, and what got reported to the executive team.
Won contracts to produce technical education for the Polkadot ecosystem. Owned product direction, content strategy, and client delivery.
Promoted from Staff DevRel Engineer. I led 12 people across 2 teams, and when the global developer community needed something from Parity's engineers, it came through me.
Promoted from Developer Educator. Built Developer Spotlight, which brought in outside developers to write tutorials.
Curriculum, hiring, and developing the faculty. Left to retrain as an engineer at Ada Developers Academy (Cohort 8).
Index
Every title below opens the talk, post, or repo.
Contact
I'm looking for my next leadership role helping a platform grow the ecosystem around it. The title might say developer experience, partnerships, or something I haven't seen yet. I'm based in Portugal, I work with teams anywhere, and I'm open to permanent or contract roles.
Tap a circle on the dial to reach me.
Or, if rotary phones aren't your thing: Email LinkedIn X GitHub DEV
My first website, 2018
In 2018, a few months into Ada Developers Academy, I built my first website about myself. It had avocados, a watermelon photo frame, and a link to my GitHub that said, "Hello World."
I'm so proud of that girl, and of how far she's come since. Go say hi to her 👋
