Eric Thiel
Community & Customer Success at DevAI
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolEric Thiel is a developer relations and community leader with 10+ years of experience building global developer programs, developer experience teams, and customer-centric advocacy at companies like Cisco and Analog Devices, now leading Community & Customer Success at DevAI. He combines a technical foundation in networking and automation with storytelling skills honed in musical theatre and improv, making complex technical initiatives accessible to both engineers and executives. Eric has launched certification tracks, immersive bootcamps, and major event programs while driving open-source engagement (notably around Zephyr) and university partnerships worldwide. He founded a data-focused consultancy early in his career, building large-scale aggregation systems that supported an acquisition by a Fortune 5 company. Known for translating strategy into tactical roadmaps, he consistently hires and develops cross-functional talent to scale developer impact. Based in Austin, he blends hands-on engineering instincts with program-level leadership to turn developer communities into measurable business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Minnesota
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
python10
automation10
ansible10
cisco10
ssh10
network-configuration9
docker-compose5
docker5
networking4
network-automation3
audit2
playing1
kotlin1
mesh1
kubernetes1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
EricThiel/ansible-lab
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:46 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
EricThiel/netdevops_samples
Apr 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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