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Community Manager/ Developer Advocate -Astra Streaming / Apache Pulsar at DataStax

San Ramon, California, United States

Apache Pulsar is a cloud-native, distributed streaming messaging platform designed to operate at IoT scale, allowing AI and ML applications, in real time, to be at the edge.  Astra Streaming is powered by Apache Pulsar.
DataStax believes in supporting Open Source Software and looks to grow and strengthen the Pulsar Community.

DataStax

Community Manager/ Developer Advocate -Astra Streaming / Apache Pulsar

Helping to grow and strength the Apache Pulsar Community.

ApachePulsar

Community Manager/Dev Advocate

We are a community of approximately 5,000 Technologists, Industry Experts, Entrepreneurs, Corporate Innovators, and Investors who want to connect to connect, learn and share how the enabling technologies for the Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 will impact our lives, jobs, communities, and industries.
We are always looking for people to speak about the latest technology, start-up, or passion project.

IoTHub Meetup

Community Organizer

For 2021- Teacher Mentor and Section Leader-  In addition to running a section for the course, also running a section as a teacher mentor.

Helping to teach the "Code in Place" version of Stanford's intro to programming class CS 106A.  With over 80k students signed up from all around the world to learn how to program; it is my honor to help out by running one of their Small Group Session during the Global stay in place.

Part of a teaching team for Code in Place, offered by Stanford during COVID-19 pandemic, with 10,000 global students and 900 volunteer teachers participating from around the world.

Prepared and taught a weekly discussion section of 10-12 students to supplement professors’ lectures in a 5-week introductory online Python programming course based on material from the first half of Stanford’s introductory programming course, CS106A.

Stanford University School of Engineering

Teacher Mentor/Section Leader- Volunteer

Working to build and strengthen the developer community around the 9 projects of LF Edge: EdgeX Foundry, Project EVE, Akraino, Fledge, Open Horizon, Home Edge, State of the Edge, SDO, and Baetyl.

The Linux Foundation

LF Edge- Developer Advocate/ Technical Evangelist/Community Director

Working to develop and strengthen the Zededa and LF Edge (EVE) developer community.

ZEDEDA Inc.

Community Lead/ Developer Relations

The d-shop is SAP's internal Community and Maker-space. We started in 2013 and grew it from 5 locations to now over 35 world wide on 5 continents.

The mission of d-shop is to bring external and internal technologies closer to all SAP employees and to expand our cross silo community engagement within SAP.  These technologies vary widely from IoT to Machine Learning to AR/VR.  We bring these technologies to life by teaching hands on projects.

The d-shop serves as a great way to demonstrate to our customers and to the community the innovation side of SAP, with over 1,000 customer visits a month.  Plus, the d-shop enables our colleagues to go out into the the community and teach introduction to coding to the next generation of software engineers.

As Global Director, I managed the focus of the d-shop program, setting priorities, evangelizing SAP technologies and evangelized new technologies coming into SAP; managed our core staff and the over 100 volunteers from around the world; created and taught new content; and reached out to external partners to bring new technology into SAP.

Created and spoke at our "d-shop days" events, where we invited our colleague to come and learn some of the latest technologies that they will be using over the next one to five years.  This event attracted over 500 of our colleagues at each of our 15 stops.  Aaron also did multiple train the trainer sessions to train our local d-shop staff.

Named a SAP Catalyst (top performer).

d-shop Global Director/ Developer Advocate

The d-shop (developer workshop) is SAP's internal maker-space.  We started in 2013 and now have 21 d-shops world wide.  I am the lead for the Americas and Australia.

The mission of d-shop is to bring external technologies closer to all SAP employees.

We do this by removing the barriers that stand in the way of trying non-SAP technologies hands-on at SAP:
Selection: we bring to SAP external technologies that are relevant, exciting and easy to start with.
Cost and process: we purchase the hardware and make it available informally and free of charge for all.

Getting started: we know enough about each technology to get any colleague started.
Time: we schedule activities so that colleagues do not have to take time off their project to attend.

How does this benefit SAP?
Innovation: we enable colleagues on a breadth of technologies early on in their adoption cycle.
Employee engagement: coming to d-shop makes SAP employees happy and more engaged!
- Build bridges, not silos”: connect colleagues across teams and locations
Branding: we change the perception of the SAP brand to one that is more innovative, approachable and open to the world.

Lead- d-shop Americas

Working with partners and customers, we develop IoT solutions on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform.
Focusing on the Americas and APJ (Asia, Pacific, and Japan).

Projects start as just an idea and we work with our partners and customers to develop those ideas starting with design thinking sessions.  Here we can flush out many different ideas by using personas.  Those personas guide us on how the end user would use the product.
From that we work with the development team to develop the product, on a very short time line using Agile methodology.  Then release a new version every 3 months, always working with the partners and customers, to validate the current release and get new feedback for the next.

During my time at SAP, I have worked with people, of different backgrounds and cultures, from around the world.  I have always looked for the common ground and have included as many people as possible in the process.

Product Manager- SAP Hana Cloud Platform- Internet of Things- (IoT)

SAP d-shop days, World Wide
- d-shop days” is the d-shop’s premier event, hosted at over ten d-shop locations (Dublin, Galway, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Paris, Vancouver, Palo Alto, Israel, Montreal…).  It is a 3-5 day conference in which SAP Colleagues are exposed to new technologies, current SAP topics and trainings, external speakers, and a multiple day hack-a-thon.  Plus, community events (kid code events, etc.)

Each event had over 300 attendees with most attended 3-5 classes.  (some of the larger campuses had over 1,000 attendees).
Many “maker cases” and ran train-the-trainer sessions so that the local team could continue the trainings through out the year.

SAP d-kom, World Wide
Helped organize and run SAP’s Developer Kick-Off Meeting at many different, especially Silicon Valley.  This event is the kick off meeting for all of SAP developers.  The d-shop hosted build-a-thons, classes, talks on a varied of topics.  The goal was to get our developers excited for the upcoming year.

Each event had over 300 attendees with most attended 3-5 classes.  (some of the larger campuses had over 1,000 attendees).

SAP Tech-ed, Las Vegas, Berlin, Bangalore
SAP Tech-Ed is SAP’s premier external developer’s conference, hosted in at least three cities every year.

Taught multiple classes for attendees on SAP IoT and the SAP Cloud Platform.
Ran the SAP maker area, where attendees were able to try hardware and then connecting those devices to SAP’s Cloud products.
Worked with SAP’s IoT, Cloud Platform, Developer’s Relations, and HANA Academy teams.

SAP CodeJams
Working with SAP Developer Relations and SAP IoT, did many CodesJams around the world.  A CodeJam is where a member of the SAP community invites SAP experts to come and present on new SAP topic.  SAP Developer Relations then sends an expert out to run a four hour event at the location.  I have done these in Europe, North and South America, and Australia.

Speaking/ Teaching Events

Project Manager, design thinking, SCRUM,
Connected Cars
SAP HANA Cloud for Automotive
SAP HANA Cloud for Industries
Mobile, Android, iOS

Project Manager

Software Engineer- Innovation Centre

Helped create SAP's Mobile Retail Initiative (Apollo)
iPhone/Android, C#, SQL Server

Aaron Williams

Aaron Williams