Erin and Brian are joined by Dana Oshiro, a partner with Heavybit which is the leading investor in developer-first startups including Snyk, CircleCI, PagerDuty and more.
Developer-first Startups with Dana Oshiro
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Erin Mikail Staples
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Brian Rinaldi
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Featured Guest
Dana Oshiro is an investor at Heavybit, leading pre-seed through Series-A investments in exceptional developer tool, cloud/OSS infrastructure, and AI/ML startups. She built Heavybit’s original community, content, and accelerator while launching 60+ developer-first products for portfolio companies like LaunchDarkly, Netlify, Snyk, CircleCI and Tailscale. She currently holds board seats with Yetto and Everfund. In the past she’s built GTM and community engagement strategy for Heroku, Salesforce, The Breast Cancer Fund, BC Government, and Code for America. She’s a recovering tech journalist and has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, and VentureBeat.
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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 is a Developer Experience Engineer at LaunchDarkly. Brian has worked for a decade focused on developer community and developer relations at companies like Progress Software and Adobe. Brian has been a developer for over 20 years, working with front-end and back-end technologies mostly focused on the web. He is heavily involved in the community including running developer meetups and events via CFE.dev and serving on the board of and organizing meetups for Orlando Devs. serves as the editor of the Jamstacked newsletter.