Summary
Kunal Batra is a seasoned developer relations leader and builder with 11 years of experience helping developers adopt cloud and AI platforms, currently a Senior Developer Advocate at Datadog and co-founder/general partner at early-stage ventures. He has led developer programs at AWS, Clarifai, Auth0, and SendGrid, combining hands-on technical evangelism with team leadership and product-focused developer onboarding. Kunal repeatedly bridges startups and large cloud providers, shipping tooling, ambassador programs, and developer experiences that scale. He also founds companies (Onboto, General Machines) that solve real user problems—one early product converted voice-to-text for deaf callers—illustrating his product-first engineering mindset. Based in the New York City area, he mentors founders through Techstars while continuing to translate complex cloud and ML capabilities into approachable developer workflows.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology