Phil Leggetter
Head Of Developer Experience, Relations & Marketing
Dollar, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPhil Leggetter is a seasoned developer experience and developer relations leader with 15+ years of hands-on engineering and strategic PLG experience, currently heading Developer Experience, Relations & Marketing at Hookdeck. He has built and scaled DX/DevRel teams across startups and enterprise — driving multi-million dollar budgets and self-serve revenue growth, and shepherding teams through acquisition and rapid expansion. A practitioner as well as a strategist, Phil still contributes code and docs to notable open-source projects (including refactors to the Vonage Node SDK and contributions to Pusher and PostHog) and has a track record of boosting adoption and engagement through measurable product-led initiatives. He authored the AAARRRP DevRel Strategy Framework to connect company goals to developer-facing activities and has repeatedly translated developer feedback into product and marketing wins. Based in Dollar, Scotland, he blends C-level strategy with day-to-day execution across docs, SDKs, onboarding, and community to turn developer empathy into tangible business impact.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (2:1 hons), Software Engineering, BSc (2:1 hons), Software Engineering at University of Stirling
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Github Skills (60)
unit-testing10
markdown10
content-management-system10
javascript10
middleware10
event-handling10
apidoc10
testing10
edge-function10
feature-flags10
websocket10
nextjs10
java10
javas10
php10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
pusher/pusher-http-php
Apr 2012 - Dec 2015
PHP library for interacting with the Pusher Channels HTTP API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:76 commits, 22 PRs, 33 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Phil focused on enhancing the Pusher Channels PHP library by adding features related to channel status and channel list support. They implemented functions to retrieve channel statistics and a list of channels, utilizing the Pusher REST API. These additions involved modifying the core `Pusher.php` file to include new methods for API interaction and incorporating unit tests to validate the new functionality.
apiguzzlephpchannelspusher
Vonage/vonage-node-sdk
Apr 2016 - Sep 2017
Vonage API client for Node.js. API support for SMS, Voice, Text-to-Speech, Numbers, Verify (2FA) and more.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 156 commits, 43 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Phil focused on refactoring the Vonage Node.js SDK to introduce namespaced functionality. They implemented a new `Nexmo` instance, moving functionality from a global `nexmo` object to individual class definitions (SMS, Voice, etc.). The changes included creating new classes and modifying existing files to support the new structure, including example files demonstrating usage of both the pre-v1 and v1 beta versions of the SDK. These changes utilized ES2015 and Babel for transpilation to support multiple runtimes.
developer-destinationnexmovoice-to-textserver-sdktwo-factor-authentication
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