Mary Thengvall is a seasoned Developer Relations leader and founder with over a decade of experience building and scaling developer communities for companies like Camunda, SparkPost, Chef, and O'Reilly. She authored "The Business Value of Developer Relations," a widely referenced guide in the field, and advises startups and enterprises on turning community activity into measurable business impact. At Camunda she has driven cross-functional programs that align product, engineering, and customer teams to accelerate adoption and deliver predictable outcomes. As founder of Persea Consulting and curator of DevRel Weekly, she blends strategic consulting with hands-on community operations and content curation. A frequent speaker and podcast host, she combines storytelling skills from a communications background with data-driven program management. Based in San Francisco, she is known for bridging technical and business objectives and for insistently measuring DevRel’s ROI rather than treating it as an amorphous function.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Completion, Certificate of Completion at altMBA
Certificate of Completion, Social Media, Certificate of Completion, Social Media at Facebook Success Summit 2011
Certificate of Completion, Certificate of Completion at World Journalism Institute
BA, Comprehensive Communication, BA, Comprehensive Communication at Cedarville University
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