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Shedrack Akintayo

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

London, England

Work Experience

  • Founder

    2022

    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

2024 - 2024

  • Technical Marketing Engineer

    2024 - 2024

    Isovalent was acquired by Cisco in April 2024.

2023 - 2024

  • Community Manager

    2023 - 2024

    Helping build the eBPF and Cilium open source community

2022 - 2023

  • Developer Relations Manager

    2022 - 2023

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

2020 - 2023

  • 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

  • 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

2021 - 2022

  • 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)

2020 - 2020

  • 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