Floor Drees
Member at Microsoft
Voorschoten, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolFloor Drees is a developer relations and community-building leader with 13 years of experience helping technical communities grow, govern, and go online. Currently Principal Program Manager at EDB and active in The Apache Software Foundation, she blends program management, content strategy, and event leadership across PostgreSQL and DevOps ecosystems. Floor co-organizes major conferences (DevOpsDays, DevRelCon, PostgreSQL events), shepherds Codes of Conduct adoption, and has practical experience running virtual events using Streamyard, Restream and Twitch. She also contributes to open-source education—organizing and editing Rails Girls guides—and has a track record of moving complex orgs and projects (like GitHub reorganizations) toward clearer structures. Based in the Netherlands, she pairs a designer’s background with a talent for translating engineering challenges into teachable content and inclusive community practices.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
VWO, Cultuur & Maatschappij, VWO, Cultuur & Maatschappij at Vlietland collegeGraphics Design / 2D Design, Graphics Design / 2D Design at Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam
Italian, English, German, Dutch
Stackoverflow
118reputation
2kreached
2answers
1question
Github Skills (15)
user-manual10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
sinatra9
html9
css9
passenger6
docker6
php6
javascript6
phusion6
jquery6
dockerfile6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
railsgirls/guides.railsgirls.com
Aug 2013 - Nov 2019
Rails Girls Guides
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Content Organizer
Technical Writer & Content OrganizerContributions:37 commits, 12 PRs, 7 pushes in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Floor primarily contributed to the Rails Girls Guides repository by updating and organizing the content. They added new guides, specifically focusing on Sinatra and Ruby on Rails, and reorganized existing content, including removing outdated guides and streamlining the online platform deployment options. The user's work focused on improving the structure and navigation of the guides, and included merging branches, indicating content consolidation.
ruby-on-railsrails-girlsrailsrubygirls
FloorD/FloorD.github.io
Mar 2018 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.