United States Air Force Academy

Developer Experience Advocate at Optimizely

San Francisco, California

Translating the power of Optimizely's progressive delivery + experimentation platform to full stack developers around the world. Kody creates content and speaks publicly at conferences around the world (+the virtual world!) about the power of progressive delivery and experimentation as development practices. At Optimizely Kody owns technical documentation across the product offering and helps bring clarity and delight to the developer docs experience. He also creates technical content like sample apps, tutorials, and videos for progressive delivery and experimentation products used by world class companies like Atlassian, Microsoft, and Github.

Optimizely

Developer Experience Advocate

Responsible for technical integrations and partnerships for world’s largest small business platform (2M+ businesses).• Consulted with the largest banks and technology partners in the world to advise on the development of, and to help deliver, phenomenal integrations (high human-touch)• Launched, frequently, new partnerships that on-boarded tens of thousands of new customers• Produced sample apps leveraging Xero API’s and blog posts explaining concepts and technologies, maintained docs• Presented publicly to enterprise partners and customers and demoed technical projects that showcased the power of integrating with Xero’s API’s• Influenced changes and additions to Xero API’s (used by 50k devs) based on close insight to developer experience and use cases

Xero

Developer Evangelist - Americas

Revamped developer relations at software company Perk. Account manager for all 70+ accounts.  •	Advises developers on business and technical strategies to maximize the performance of the Perk Platform in their apps.•	Guides accounts through the integration process as a SME on the platform across technologies (iOS, Android, Unity, etc.) •	Maintains developer documentation/marketing web pages.•	Serves as linchpin communicator between customers, product, engineering, and business teams. Explains how customers really use the product and what should be done to improve the product on technical and business levels.

Perk.com

Developer Evangelist

Learned the Swift programming language and shipped a unique social media app to the iOS store. (<a href="https://appsto.re/us/iWKd8.i">https://appsto.re/us/iWKd8.i</a>)

Hot Button

Creator

Built robotics teleoperation tool on AWS. Used at MIT’s Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). <a href="http://www.orchidrobotics.com">www.orchidrobotics.com</a>

Fulcrum

Directed the design and implementation of tests in the wind tunnels facility at the Air Force Research Labs Headquarters.•	Manager and point of contact to defense contractors, government agencies, and researchers wishing to test in wind tunnels.•	Planned and directed across teams and stakeholders to build tests accommodating cutting edge technologies with safety and fidelity of results.•	Responsible for $100,000+ in resources for testing.•	Designed, procured parts for, and built 150k volt plasma generator for testing with femtosecond laser delivery system at hypersonic (Mach 7+) speeds.

Air Force Research Laboratory

Developmental Engineer

Worked with other top interns at Intel, Corp. Prototyped robotics system plan that advised Intel on possible future needs of Intel chips in robotics.

Intel Corporation

Intern

- Team Captain, Mechanical Engineering Capstone team (delivered team created drones to high ranking Air Force leadership customers).•	Director of Operations, Cadet Squadron Two (Directed daily operations and inspired performance for 120 Cadets).

Kody O'Connell