GoogleOpen Source Strategy Lead, Golang
Nov. 2017 - Nov. 2019• Managed the relationship between 40+ Google engineers and a 1.5M user community streamlining communications, balancing expectations and increasing holistic engagement with partners.
• Created open source strategies that unified Google Cloud business goals with team goals from product, engineering and devrel through OKR building, getting buy-in from primary stakeholders across the organization, strategic direction meetings and cross-functional project plans.
• Increased Go community engagement by 2x and Go users from 800K to 1.7M in by building
critical developer programs informed by user surveys, industry and analyst research, and product
feedback while working with PR, engineering and devrel teams to address user needs.
• Built out, requested and budget Go’s engineering budget and non-engineering head count requests by working with cross-functional teams. Resulted in a 3x increase in non engineering talent and a 2x
increase in budget YoY.
• Developed and executed an event strategy that included sponsorship in 85% of Go conferences for
Google Cloud increasing overall engagement by 50%
• Served as a community leader by speaking at an average of 1 conference/month, maintaining a
position as a board member of GoBridge assisting them with community programs, and regularly
meeting with community leaders to advise them on their work with the Go Project.
• Developed the project plan, staffing, contract, budgeting and go-to-market strategic recommendation for a new golang website to address increased user needs for more curated educational content and clearer branding from the Go project. (launch pending Google approval).