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The 29 personas behind AI

We’ve organized every stage and persona in the AI supply chain, informed by real recruiting at frontier companies. Click any row to see matching profiles from our talent graph.

Shaped by Industry Experts
Kumar Chellapilla
Kumar ChellapillaVPE
Jennifer Anderson
Jennifer AndersonVPE / Stanford PhD
Thuan Pham
Thuan PhamCTO
Akash Garg
Akash GargCTO
Linghao Zhang
Linghao ZhangResearch Engineer
Wayne Chang
Wayne ChangEarly FB Engineer
Indrajit Khare
Indrajit KhareEM & Head of Product
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Developer Relations

Bridges product to ecosystem
Developer Relations

Summary

Known as: Developer Advocate, Technical Writer, Developer Evangelist, Community Manager

External-facing advocacy, education, and community building for AI platforms. Shapes how developers discover, learn, and succeed with the product — and feeds what they struggle with back into engineering and product decisions.

Specializations

Content & Education — Documentation, tutorials, cookbooks, sample apps, and video walkthroughs. Maintains accuracy as APIs evolve, writes migration guides, and produces the getting-started experience that determines whether a developer sticks past day one. Technical writing at AI companies is harder than average — the surface area changes fast and the concepts are unfamiliar to most developers.
Community & Ecosystem — Developer programs, forums, Discord/Slack management, hackathons, partner integrations, and the ecosystem cultivation that turns users into advocates. Runs feedback loops at scale: aggregates developer pain points, identifies adoption blockers, and surfaces integration patterns the community invents before the company does.
Technical Advocacy & Product Feedback — Conference talks, live demos, workshops, and the public-facing technical presence that builds credibility with developers. The feedback loop function: translates field experience into prioritized product input, writes internal reports on what developers actually struggle with, and closes the gap between how the product team thinks developers use the platform and how they actually do.

Where the Work Lives

[1]Substrate
[2]Compute
[3]Intelligence
[4]Systems
[5]Distribution
Primary

Bridges AI products to the developer ecosystem through docs, talks, demos, and community.

Candidate Archetypes

Shehzan Patel
Shehzan Patel
Hugging Face
Builder-educator

Ships demos and reference apps that prove how to build with the platform.

Zack Miller
Zack Miller
OpenAI
Docs & technical writing

Makes complex systems legible through accurate, maintained documentation that matches reality.

Sriram Gupta
Sriram Gupta
LangChain
Community & programs

Runs ecosystems, education loops, and feedback channels that compound developer adoption.

Company Scale

Early-Stage
Occasional
Growth
Primary
Enterprise
Primary

Developer-facing products only. Founders do this early; growth+ builds dedicated DevRel.

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