Katherine Druckman
Head Of Community And Partnership Engagement at JetBrains
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKatherine Druckman is a developer ecosystem leader with 8 years of experience building and scaling open source and AI-focused communities, now leading Community and Partnership Engagement at JetBrains. She has driven measurable growth at Intel—boosting developer reach 50% year-over-year—and co-created cross-foundation DevRel programs at OpenSSF that engaged 100+ organizations. A hands-on technologist with roots in Drupal and cloud-native tooling, she has shipped developer experiences at Acquia and led a major Drupal migration and audience growth to 1M monthly uniques at Linux Journal. Katherine also co-hosts the long-running Reality 2.0 podcast (150+ episodes, 150k+ downloads), blending storytelling with technical advocacy to amplify secure AI and open innovation. Colleagues know her for uniting engineering, marketing, and executive stakeholders into cohesive ecosystem GTM strategies and for translating complex policy and security topics into approachable community programs.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Decorative Arts History, Decorative Arts History at Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material CultureBachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at Trinity University
Github Skills (26)
lightning10
drupal10
acquia10
php10
continuous-integration8
no-code8
testing6
composer5
cms5
dedicated5
openssf4
microservices3
bitcoin3
lightning-network2
genai2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
intel/open-ecosystem-evangelism
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025
Supporting documentation for Intel's Open Source Evangelists.
Contributions:17 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 year 1 month
kdruckman/lightning
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
Lightning is a base distribution for fast and feature-rich Drupal. Please submit issues to our Drupal.Org queue here: https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/lightning
Contributions:46 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
feature-richphplightningsubmitdrupal
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