Stephen Compston
Director, Partner Engineering at Planet
Lafayette, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Compston is a Director of Partner Engineering with 12 years of experience building and scaling developer-facing teams and programs across startups and large tech firms. He excels as a translator between product, engineering, and commercial stakeholders—creating Developer Relations functions, community programs, and go-to-market plans that turn technical platforms into tangible customer outcomes. At Twitter he grew global developer adoption through structured teams (Solution Architecture, Developer Advocacy) and community initiatives; at T-Mobile he launched DevEdge’s developer relations function and ran product pilots across multiple product areas. Now at Planet he focuses on partner engineering at scale, bringing a pragmatic, customer-first approach informed by prior hands-on roles from partner engineering to customer success. His unusual background—holding a JD and founding a solo law practice before entering tech—gives him a rare blend of legal, business, and technical empathy that helps unblock complex partnerships and compliance-sensitive integrations.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Juris Doctorate, Juris Doctorate at University of Colorado School of LawBachelor of Science - BS, Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Industrial Engineering at University of Arkansas
Github Skills (5)
twitter-api9
twitter8
python6
json1
pipeline1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
compston/TAP-Workshop
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
gnip/support
Nov 2013 - Dec 2014
Git Support Utilities
Contributions:15 commits in 1 year
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