Q2 2013 - Q2 2013 (and previously as a 20% contributor)
Senior Developer Advocate for Dart within Chrome Developer Relations
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Gave talks about Dart.
Gave 7 international talks in 6 countries.
Gave 9 talks locally.
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Wrote open source code.
Developed
doc-code-merge
and led development of
doc-code-verify
to make sure code samples embedded in documentation stay correct.
Led a project called
dart-html5-samples
to port samples from HTML5 Rocks into Dart. The samples are linked
to from the welcome page of Dart Editor.
Worked with another developer to build a project called
Irrduino.
The frontend that I built in Dart looks like Farmville, but it
actually controls a real sprinkler system.
Built Tetris in Dart
only a month after Dart was first announced.
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Advocated for Dart using video.
Hosted or helped host 7 episodes of
Dartisans
for Google Developers Live. We've gotten over 11k views for
just those 7 episodes.
Gave a talk on Dart in Spanish that
resulted in 1.8k views and 166 hours of watch time. This took a
lot of effort since I am not a native Spanish speaker!
Created a screencast on using
Dart with GWT that got 1.7k views and 161 hours of watch time.
Created a video about
Irrduino that resulted in 6k views and 200 hours of watch time.
Spoke remotely at 3 DevFests for a total of 300 attendees.
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Wrote blog posts about Dart.
Wrote the most popular blog posts on Dart two quarters in a row thanks to
my blog posts on
TypeScript
and
dart-html5-samples.
Q2 2011 - Q2 2012 (and afterwards as a 20% contributor)
Senior Developer Advocate for YouTube APIs
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Advocated for YouTube APIs. Spoke about YouTube APIs at 9 international
events in 8 countries. Spoke at 15 local events. Won a peer bonus for
giving 3 talks in one trip to Egypt. Wrote 5 blog posts for the YouTube
API blog. I was the host for 9 episodes of YouTube Developers Live,
which resulted in 16k views.
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Jarek Wilkiewicz and I decreased the average customer wait
time for the partner support queue by 300% in one quarter.
Worked with Jarek Wilkiewicz to gain a total of 10 commitments
for various YouTube API launches. In particular, worked with 6
different partners as they integrated with
YouTube.com/create.
Had 56 partner meetings in which I solved problems, gathered
feedback, and garnered integrations.
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Gave two webinars for Google I/O. My webinar
Using Ruby on Rails and YouTube APIs for Educational Apps
currently has 75k views and was our most successful Google Developers Live
video. My webinar
YouTube for Your Business
currently has 13k views.
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Built Quizzimoto,
an open source application that I used as the basis for
my talk
Using Ruby on Rails and YouTube APIs for Educational Apps
talk. Also used it to give a talk at two local Ruby users
groups, including a talk at Pivotal Labs.
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Worked with Jeffrey Posnick to build
Party Playlist Picker.
It's an open source Google App Engine application written in
Python that lets users collaboratively edit a YouTube playlist
in realtime. Our
Google Developers Live video for it has
gotten over 1k views.
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Provided technical support for business development in
meetings with game publishers. I've met with roughly 15
partners including one of Google's largest advertising partners.
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Open sourced numerous sample projects written in
Python,
Ruby,
PHP,
Dart, and
Java (for Android).