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Past Speaking Experience
- DevRel: How Technical Communities Can Maximize Impact & Success at Community-led Summit
- Invest in yourself by investing in others, keynote
- Community Ambassadors: What They Do & Why You Need Them
- 8 Bits Podcast with Tessa Kriesel
- DevRel & Product Management on One Knight in Product Podcast
- Superfans, DevRel Book Club with DeveloperRelations.com
- Developer Superfans: Building Trust
- Creating a Community Profile with Rosie Sherry
- Mastering cross-functional DevRel on Technically True Podcast
- Breaking down gender discrimination, keynote
- 3 Step Model for Building Community Trust on Community Corner Podcast
- AMA: The Community Club
- Creating an Army of Advocates on How I Built It Podcast
- Community (re)Focus Panel AMA
- DevRel Beyond Events and Travel
- DevRelCon Earth: Building a Community Platform with WordPress
- Teaching under-represented groups to code on Pagely Podcast
- The Art of Building Community with WordPress, Keynote
- Learn By Doing & Experiencing on Bold Life Podcast
- MSP Business Journal: 100 women you should invite to speak at your next event
- Community & Mentorship on Thunder Nerds Podcast
- All Things WordPress On PHP Roundtable Podcast
- Teaching Web Development On How I Built It Podcast
- Podcast, Hallway Chats
- Webinar, Pantheon Couch Coding: Bending Behat's Benefits
- Other Speaking Engagements Delivered
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Title & Affiliation
Head of Platform Developer Relations at Snap
Short Bio
Tessa is a DevRel leader and advisor to many early-stage startups. Tessa has many years of experience as a self-taught, open-source web developer previous to shifting into DevRel over 6 years ago.
Long Bio
Tessa Kriesel is an experienced developer and community leader. With over 14 years of experience, she is a self-taught developer who has focused on open-source development, DevOps, and community growth. She is passionate about engaging developer audiences and drives her efforts from a data-driven campaign perspective.
Tessa takes pride in engaging with her community as a contributor and mentor and has done this for several companies, ranging from startups to tech giants. As a technologist, her goal is to elevate developers' voices and knowledge in the community. In addition to her work as Head of Platform Developer Relations at Snap, she advises early-stage startups and mentors underrepresented groups. Prior to her current role, Tessa was the Director of Advocacy & Community at Lacework, Developer Community at Twitter, and Developer Outreach Manager at Pantheon—to name a few.
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