Tessa K
About
Tessa works in the following industries: "Computer Software", "Internet", "Printing", "Marketing & Advertising", and "Restaurants". Tessa is currently undefined at undefined. Tessa also works as Director of Advocacy & Community at Lacework, a job Tessa has held since Aug 2021. Another title Tessa currently holds is Developer Relations (DevRel) Coach at Devocate. In Tessa's previous role as a Head of Developer Relations at Fast, Tessa worked in San Francisco Bay Area until May 2021. Prior to joining Fast, Tessa was a Head of Developer Community (Developer Relations) at Twitter and held the position of Head of Developer Community (Developer Relations) at Boulder, CO. Prior to that, Tessa was a Developer Outreach Manager (Developer Relations) at Pantheon Platform, based in San Francisco Bay Area from Jul 2018 to Jul 2019. Tessa started working as Instructor, Chapter Leader (Community Manager) at Girl Develop It in Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area in Dec 2014. From Jan 2017 to Jul 2018, Tessa was Developer Advocate (Developer Relations) at Pantheon Platform, based in San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to that, Tessa was a Senior Web Developer at Windmill Strategy, based in Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area from Aug 2014 to Jan 2016. Tessa started working as Director of Web Operations at Spectrum Marketing Services in Little Falls, MN in Mar 2013.
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Tessa K's current jobs
Director of Advocacy and Community at Lacework should build great developer experiences for our builder's community. Reporting to the VP of Developer Experience and Customer Education, leading developer advocates who will represent Lacework's platform externally while also being the voice of our developer ecosystem to internal product teams across the company. Build key relationships with the Field CTO team, engineering, product, and marketing leaders across Lacework to provide feedback that will help shape our developer experience and product. The voice of our builders needs to be embedded in Laceworks product decisions and you will be instrumental in achieving this. Gain deep context on the Lacework builder community and work closely with our senior product and engineering leadership. In order to gain the context you need to build this role, your first six months might look something like this: Defining the discipline of Developer and Customer Advocacy and growing the team Leveraging time with leadership to understand why this is important to the entire company Work with the team to be the voice of the builder community, advocating for their needs to internal product teams Analyze and review product changes, and their impact on the ecosystem Create and foster relationships with builders, gaining a deep understanding of their product usage and needs Attend and host round tables with builders getting to know the ecosystem and who the builders are Speak at global and local conferences, and developer events Work closely with the product line to decide where developer experience is headed and what features in Lacework are most needed by builders Identify the knowledge gap in the market around security and Lacework, work closely with education and developer marketing team to close gap with content Define, monitor, and analyze metrics that inform the success of our product offerings, and opportunities for improvement
Working with companies of all sizes to strategize, build, & scale their developer relations (DevRel) team functions. Coaching founders & companies targeting developers how to attract, engage & grow their audiences. Developer community & feedback program building. Developer audience strategy, insights & tracking. Automation & tracking expert. Mentoring developers in all things developer advocacy and community building. More About Devocate We come alongside companies serving developer audiences to strategize, build & scale their developer audience & developer relations teams. Helping early-stage founders land their first developer customer to companies looking to develop a high-velocity DevRel team. We tend to focus on the strategy & recruiting side of building developer relations teams. When helping companies grow their MRR (or signups), we tend to focus on both strategy & execution, creating campaigns for your team and ours to execute. We strive to serve companies of all sizes and stages, offering discounts and limited-free coaching to early stage founders & hourly coaching sessions to pick our brain for advice.
Tessa K's past jobs
No job description was provided. Reported to Marketing. Wrongfully terminated hours after reporting harassment and gender discrimination—currently in a lawsuit against them.
Responsible for growing the developer community programs related to the Twitter developer platform and Twitter APIs. Develop, implement, and execute programs to engage with developers using our platform at scale. Work cross-functionally with many teams within Twitter, including product management, marketing, and engineering. Develop and grow developer communities by identifying and executing strategies for scaled outreach. Solve problems strategically by implementing programs and systems, while also being ready to jump in and drive program execution and engage with developers directly. Responsibilities: Design and implement strategies that grow and leverage the Twitter developer community to accomplish Twitter’s objectives at scale, in collaboration with other DES teams. Launch initiatives to grow awareness of and interest in the Twitter developer platform by highlighting and rewarding external developers using the APIs Identify and deliver strategies and programs for scaled outreach in key local markets. Utilize and recruit community leaders, and enable them to succeed, to extend our team’s reach in a scalable way. Create incentive programs to encourage external developers to actively engage in Twitter community forums and 3rd-party platforms (e.g. stack overflow) to answer other developers’ technical and product questions. Develop and maintain strategic developer relationships to surface and communicate feedback related to Twitter products, ideas, and strategies. Build a measurement framework, including compiling and delivering reporting, analysis, and recommendations, to build and foster the community and developer relationships.
Responsible for enabling external voices to advocate for and evangelize Pantheon - the outreach lead of Developer Relations. Primary responsibility is to build, grow and measure the success of Pantheon’s external outreach program. Produce material that attract, educate, and inspire developers by advocating for better development practices with Pantheon. That work may include blog posts, sample code, videos, webinars, conference presentations, documentation, real-time trainings, and more. - Curate relationships with current and upcoming influencers on strategic topics. Assist them with understanding and then developing content that highlights Pantheon’s strengths. - Grow Pantheon’s outreach at events by assisting with speakers, venue accommodations & curating topics around Pantheon. - Measure and report on Developer Relations team impact. Create regular reporting processes to be shared with all Pantheors and Executive leadership. Celebrate our wins and suggest improvements as applicable. - Promote, support & monitor social media channels for external advocates sharing resources and posts that reference Pantheon. - Monitor online communities, groups and forums for users mentioning Pantheon and respond by answering questions or showing appreciation for their support of Pantheon. - Promote & support community voices, initiatives and workshops both in-person and online that are or could be using Pantheon. - Promote and support diversity & inclusion initiatives within the community through support, promotion and helping build connections.
Taught over 300 women to code! 🔥🙌 Teach and construct class curriculum's with Front End Development classes Create and maintain organization website Establish and maintain email marketing list & newsletters Plan and attend social events Networking with members, students and sponsor
Produce material/lead efforts that will attract, educate, and inspire developers by advocating for better development practices with Pantheon. That work includes blog posts, sample code, videos, webinars, conference presentations, documentation, real-time trainings, and more. Engage the open source web development community online and in-person. Demonstrate cutting edge development techniques. Tell stories that inspire development teams to reach beyond what they thought possible. Pave the path for new developers to use professional practices such as version control. Train teams to use Pantheon's tools. Document the practices and techniques that large website projects need in order to be successful with Pantheon. Cultivate enthusiasm for Pantheon and the ecosystems in which it operates. Represent the voice of customers to Pantheon's product team.
Create clean, accessible, pixel-perfect HTML and CSS from design files (PSDs) provided by the in-house design team Code and test responsive, highly customized Open Source CMS-driven websites (primarily on the WordPress platform) independently, or as a team with a back-end developer, as the project requirements dictate Work from and contribute to flexible boilerplate themes Modify and edit existing plugins/modules to customize display and functionality Test websites for cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility Work in a Mac environment using sublime text with Git, Adobe Creative Suite, Google Drive (Docs), Open Office, and Microsoft Office Other related responsibilities as needed to help the company operate efficiently
Mange Web Services Department as a whole. Manage website projects using Basecamp and internal tools by setting budgets, proposals and assigning project timelines and tasks. Completing web development in HTML, CSS, PHP using Joomla, Wordpress, InkSoft, Pressero and other CMS's. Work with the design team to create a website design concept that meets the customers needs. Manage web services employees and interns.
Setup new websites and aid in ChamberMaster integration, provide technical assistance to chamber members seeking help with website integration, website design & development, complete hosting setup and transfers.