Welcome
Aydrian Howard
Builder. Creator. Advocate.
Developer advocate, engineer, and community builder based in New York, NY. Hoosier at heart, Corgi dad by choice. I help developers build great things with TypeScript — and I'm learning Rust one error message at a time.
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Work History
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Senior Developer Advocate
Okta
Building developer experiences and community around identity and access management. Creating content, delivering talks, and helping developers integrate Okta securely and confidently.
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Product Principal & Evangelist
Tabnine
Evangelized AI-powered developer tooling. Translated complex AI capabilities into approachable narratives for developer audiences through content, demos, and community engagement.
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Developer Advocate
Cockroach Labs
Championed CockroachDB adoption with developers. Built integrations, delivered technical talks, and grew the community around distributed SQL.
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Staff Developer Advocate
Courier
Helped developers build better notification experiences. Created educational content and shaped the developer experience around product-triggered communications.
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Senior Developer Advocate
MongoDB
Helped build the Developer Relations team. Organized community events including the NYC MongoDB User Group, and created technical content to drive adoption.
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Senior Developer Advocate
SparkPost
One of the first developer advocates at SparkPost. Built and maintained the NYC developer community, maintained the Node.js client library, and helped shape the direction of the DevRel team.