8 developer advocates to watch in 2022

Nicolas is a Developer Advocate @Hazelcast and has more than 15 years of experience consulting with clients in a variety of industries including telecom,banking,retail,and the public sector. 

Nicolas is a self-proclaimed ‘Java Geek’ who adds high-quality posts to his blog weekly. Some recent titles include:Beautify third-party API with Kotlin,Native-image with Quarkus,and Multiple Spring Boot applications in the same project.

If you’re looking for a proud,kick-ass,trail-blazing DevRel to follow then Pauline P. Narvas,AKA ‘Pawlean’ is your go-to-gal. Pawlean wears the moniker of Community Engineer at Gitpod but she’s so much more than just a DevRel… she’s also a writer,podcast host,powerlifter,and all-around awesome human being. 

Paw got her first taste of tech at age 8 when she started building websites and eventually went on to study Biomedical Science and digital engineering. Since finishing school,Paw has worked as a Site Reliability Engineer and DevOps Engineer.

‘Fork in the road’ moments have always been fascinating to me. Those fateful decisions we all face… Should I take this path or that? Marc Backes’ first big moment came as a student at age 15 while attending the Lycée des Arts et Métiers school in his hometown of Luxembourg. Marc had to choose a focus for his studies,Electronics or Computer Science?

Marc says that the limitless potential to single-handedly create something from nothing is what eventually tipped the scales in favor of Computer Science. and we’re all grateful for that.

We’ll start with a massive congratulations to Angie for landing an awesome new gig as VP of Global Developer Relations for Block (formerly Square). Angie’s resume is enviable,peppered with past employers like Twitter,IBM,Teradata,Applitools,and LexisNexis

Angie is an award-winning teacher and international keynote speaker who shares her wealth of knowledge at software companies and conferences all over the world. 

Hanging out in his hometown of Rome,Italy,Francesco describes himself as a “Computer Scientist in the world of software engineering… a problem Solver and Devops fanatic.”

Recently titled a Docker Captain,Francesco is a K8s enthusiast who masterfully wields his weapons of choice –HTML,CSS,JavaScript,Angular,React,Node,Postgres,in some of his favorite sandboxes like Amazon Web Services,Azure,Google Cloud Platform,and Digital Ocean. 

Pratham joined the RapidAPI team at the end of July 2021 as a Developer Advocate after an incredibly active year online,building his Twitter followers from nearly nothing to over 150K. 

It’s no wonder,his feed is loaded with tons of sharable tips,tricks,and cheat sheets for aspiring devs and API aficionados. 

Blake is the Director of Community at Netdata and the host of CMX Connect,an outstanding educational resource for dev advocates,dev community builders,and professionals. 

Before joining the team at Netdata,Blake spent two and a half years as DZone’s Community Manager where he championed community-generated content and sat at the helm of loads of live streaming shows.

Jeremy is a Senior Developer Evangelist for Pluralsight,and an avid tech blogger and speaker. He has two decades of experience as an engineer building software for everything from tiny startups to Fortune 100 companies. 

He stays immersed in the .NET/Azure world while always keeping one foot in the Linux ecosystem building Python and Go applications.