Joey De Villa
Senior Developer Advocate
Tampa, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolJoey De Villa is a Senior Developer Advocate with 15+ years of experience building developer communities, creating canonical technical content, and driving adoption for complex platforms like OpenZiti. Based in Tampa Bay, he leads several of the region’s largest meetups and has grown developer audiences from zero to 20K+ monthly readers through hands-on tutorials, videos, and docs. His background spans mobile and platform evangelism at companies like Okta and Shopify, technical authorship for Kodeco, and measurable developer relations wins—such as first-page Google rankings for HP’s ZGX Nano launch and a 500% performance improvement on an MCP server implementation. Joey blends deep Python/AI and LLM integration expertise with practical GPU-accelerated AI work, and he’s known for turning complex security and networking concepts into approachable developer primitives. An accordion-playing tech evangelist, he pairs long-form teaching and course design with active community stewardship and product-facing feedback loops.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at Queen's University
Stackoverflow
8,473reputation
834kreached
41answers
0questions
mysql
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ruby
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lambda
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php
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operating-system
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migration
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Github Skills (28)
interface-builder10
cross-platform10
lambda10
operating-system10
mysql9
ui-components9
svn9
migration9
ruby9
python9
no-code9
ai9
php9
database9
developer-tools9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AccordionGuy/TruckStops
May 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
auth0-blog/get-started-ios-authentication-swift-uikit
Nov 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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