Ricky Holtz
Senior Manager, Developer Advocacy at Twilio
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRicky Holtz is a seasoned developer advocacy leader with 11 years of experience who currently manages Developer Advocacy at Twilio from London. He blends hands-on engineering and developer education—having built and open-sourced the Twilio Dev Phone, driven documentation quality improvements, and owned developer content for Twilio Flex that attracted tens of thousands of monthly readers. Ricky has repeatedly turned technical demos and serverless/React solutions into revenue and engagement, and he helped establish DX review and CI/git workflows to make products more contributor-friendly. An experienced educator and mentor (adjunct professor and GSI), he brings a research-informed HCI background from UConn and UC Berkeley to bridge product, docs, and developer communities. Notably, he pairs pragmatic developer marketing with engineering rigor, from hiring and process design to shipping popular open-source tools.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Information Management and Systems, HCI & Software Engineering, Master of Information Management and Systems, HCI & Software Engineering at UC Berkeley School of InformationBachelor's Degree, Individualized: Human-Computer Interaction, Bachelor's Degree, Individualized: Human-Computer Interaction at University of Connecticut
English, French, Spanish, python, German, javascript
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (69)
testing10
twilio-api10
sms10
java10
android10
voice-applications10
twilio10
crossfilter9
charting9
gpu9
visualization9
firebase-extensions9
d3js9
dcjs8
command-prompt8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ayyrickay/faxer
Oct 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 9 months
javascriptreactsendingreact-app
ayyrickay/crisco-url-shortener
Oct 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:71 commits, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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