Adam Frankl
1 Best Selling Author at The Developer Facing Startup
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAdam Frankl is a go-to-market strategist and startup advisor who has served as the first VP of Marketing at three developer-focused unicorns—JFrog, Neo4j, and Sourcegraph—helping relaunch product positioning that drove rapid ARR growth and major funding rounds. He advises and invests in pre-revenue dev tools and DevOps startups via Dev Angels, teaches founders through the Developer Facing Founders network, and coaches portfolio companies as Alchemist Accelerator’s DevOps chair and faculty. His superpower is crafting messaging and positioning grounded in a deep, research-backed understanding of developer personas, which has repeatedly created and dominated new product categories. A former software developer and infantry officer, he blends technical empathy and operational discipline with storytelling expertise (author of Alchemist’s go-to-market playbook) to help developer-facing companies accelerate adoption.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Courses in Technology Marketing, Graduate Courses in Technology Marketing at University of California, BerkeleyB.S.E., B.S.E. at Princeton UniversityHonor Graduate, Honor Graduate at US Army Infantry Officer CourseAndy Raskin's course on Strategic Narrative, Andy Raskin's course on Strategic Narrative at General AssemblyExecutive Program High Tech Marketing with Professor Geoffrey Moore author of Crossing the Chasm, Executive Program High Tech Marketing with Professor Geoffrey Moore author of Crossing the Chasm at Stanford University
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Github Skills (10)
react9
sourcegraph9
code-intelligence9
code-generation8
code-search8
code-interpreter7
automated-tests6
selenium6
testing6
developer-tools4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
adamfrankl2015/hello-world
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
test-repo
adamfrankl2015/about
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Sourcegraph blog, feature announcements, and website (about.sourcegraph.com)
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
announcementsreactsourcegraph
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