Don Goodman is a developer-focused marketing strategist and founder with 11+ years blending hands-on engineering, developer relations, and product marketing across companies like GitHub, Slack, and Sqreen. He builds developer empathy into growth programs—creating workshops, toolkits, and conference programming that scale advocacy—and now leads marketing for ledgering platform Formance while shipping his own Flutter-built photography app, Crown & Flint. A PhD in philosophy turned technologist, Don pairs rigorous analytical thinking with deep technical chops spanning embedded systems to platform APIs, and he mentors startups through Heavybit and Unicorn Factory Lisboa. Beyond tech he runs a photography studio and helps run a street-photography non-profit in Lisbon, a combination that signals a rare mix of aesthetic sensibility and product-minded execution.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Philosophy, PhD, Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis
BS, Engineering (Computer Science), BS, Engineering (Computer Science) at Mississippi State University
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