Developer Events with Jon Gottfried

Jon Gottfried is the co-founder of Major League Hacking, the largest community of early career developers in the world. Jon previously worked as an early Developer Evangelist at Twilio and Echo Nest and served as National Director for StartupBus. Jon loves creating new technology and teaching people to do the same. He was recently named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Education category and the Stony Brook 40 Under 40 for Entrepreneurship and serves on the Industry Advisor Board for the Stony Brook University College of Engineering. Outside of his work with developer communities, Jon recently competed on Season 6 of The Great American Baking Show.

Erin Mikail Staples is a very online individual passionate about facilitating better connections online and off. She’s forever thinking about how we can communicate, educate and elevate others through collaborative experiences.

Currently, Erin builds community and thinks about the philosophy and tooling of the community and developer advocate world. Much of her day is spent empowering individuals to build, foster, and embrace healthy communities. Outside of her day-job, Erin is a comedian, graduate technical advisor, no-code content creator, triathlete, avid reader, and cat parent.

Most importantly, she believes in the power of being unabashedly “into things” and works to help friends, strangers, colleagues, community builders, students, and whoever else might cross her path find their thing.

Brian Rinaldi leads the Developer Relations team at LocalStack. Brian has over 25 years experience as a developer – mostly for the web – and over a decade in Developer Relations for companies like Adobe, Progress Software and LaunchDarkly. Brian is actively involved in the developer community running virtual meetups via CFE.dev and in-person events as President of Orlando Devs. He’s also the editor of the Jamstacked newsletter and the author of a number of books.