Jyoti Bisht

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about me

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TL;DR

5+ years in tech, started working in third year of Btech CSE, 2022 graduate, OSS is the reason I am here, product person at heart.

My work lives at the intersection of community, education, and developer experience. I love turning complex technical ideas into demos, docs, workshops, stories, and resources that help developers feel less intimidated and more excited to build.

For me, DevRel is not just about explaining a product. It is about creating moments where someone feels seen, supported, and capable.

I am especially passionate about community and women in tech, because I know how much confidence, representation, and encouragement can change someone's journey.

Whether I'm speaking at events, creating technical content, mentoring builders, or contributing to open source communities, my goal is the same: to educate, empower, and make developers feel like they belong here.

what I’ve cooked

JINA AI

Open Source Tech Evangelist

  • Community growth 100 → 5000+ and counting
  • Launched Jina Education Portal
  • Student commiunity growth in APAC, GH 70% growth MoM

Harness

Senior DevRel Engineer

  • FinOps Excellence LI, Docs, Demos, Solo DevRel
  • Got promoted from DevRel to Senior.
  • Feature launches, technical demos and commercial-community management.

Appwrite

Community Engineer

  • 17000+ OSS Community
  • Office Hours host, primary issue-resolver on Discord (160+/week)
  • Dealt with community base from over 10+ programing languages and worldwide audience.

My Roles

Over 5+ years

May 2025 - Present

Senior Developer Relations Engineer

Harness · Bangalore, India

  • Own end-to-end technical content strategy for the Cloud Cost Management (CCM) module, producing blogs, documentation, whitepapers, and YouTube tutorials.
  • Grew the Harness YouTube channel through scripting, demos, editing, review, and publishing cadence for technical audiences.
  • Designed and maintained LLM-optimized CCM documentation with semantic heading hierarchies, machine-parseable parameter tables, and consistent API reference schemas, recognized with a 5/5 performance rating.
  • Expanded beyond DevRel into product management by defining user journeys for 10+ CCM features and building telemetry/funnel-tracking workflows.
  • Built an AI agent using MCP servers to automate release note generation and reduce engineering overhead.
  • Modernized CCM backend APIs with production-grade examples, realistic API calls, and structured database schemas.
  • Represented Harness at AI engineering and open-source events, including OpenAI Codex events and community conferences.

Dec 2023 - Apr 2025

Developer Relations Engineer

Harness · Bangalore, India

  • Revamped the technical documentation website and content strategy for Harness Cloud Cost Management with documentation, video tutorials, weekly blogs, and interactive guides.
  • Selected to speak at Write the Docs Australia 2024 based on the quality and impact of the documentation work.
  • Led the FinOps Excellence community, growing it to 355 followers and more than 12,000 organic impressions through content and collaborations.
  • Collaborated with Product, Engineering, and Sales to represent developer feedback and shape roadmap, documentation, and onboarding priorities.
  • Led technical demos and walkthroughs such as Commitment Orchestrator, connecting product usage with real-world cost optimization strategies.
  • Worked across marketing, product, and engineering to deliver content, go-to-market strategy, and the monthly product newsletter.

Nov 2022 - Oct 2023

Community Engineer

Appwrite · Remote

  • Oversaw technical support in a 17,000+ developer community as a community team of one, with focus on BaaS, GitHub bugs, and issue management.
  • Hosted weekly interactive Office Hours and managed customer/community interactions across social media platforms.
  • Curated a weekly support report and acted as the communication bridge between engineering and the community.
  • Resolved and closed 80-100 community questions and threads per week, primarily around API integrations and SDK usage.
  • Provided support across multiple programming languages and built reproducible examples to help developers onboard faster.

Aug 2021 - Oct 2022

Open Source Evangelist

Jina AI · Remote and Germany

  • Designed and developed Python SDKs for Jina, helping users build neural-search-powered search engines with cloud-native examples.
  • Authored developer documentation and runnable notebooks covering the full search stack.
  • Grew the community from 150 to 2,000 members in two months while collaborating with 20+ external communities over six months.
  • Created tutorials and code samples for multimodal search applications, including text-to-image and text-to-text with Jina Executors and CLIP embeddings.
  • Built vector database integration examples using DocArray for multimodal data serialization and nearest-neighbor retrieval.
  • Organized events and workshops, delivered 5+ technical talks, and ran a PyLadies Dublin neural search workshop for 100+ attendees.
  • Launched the Jina Developer Portal with beginner, intermediate, and advanced learning paths for the community.

Jun 2022 - Dec 2022

Pod Leader

Major League Hacking · Remote

  • Led and mentored a team of 7+ fellows in one cohort, guiding contributions to open-source projects including Django and GitHub's Program Equity.
  • Served as the primary point of contact for fellows, helping resolve technical questions and project issues.
  • Coordinated between management, project maintainers, and the team to drive meaningful project contributions.

Jan 2022 - Present

Open Source Track Lead and Mentor

Codess.Cafe · Volunteer · Remote

  • Founded the Open Source Track of Codess.Cafe and mentored 2000+ women in tech to help them enter open source.
  • Expanded the Codess.Cafe open-source community from 0 to 2000+ in one year.
  • Onboarded six new mentors, each leading a team of at least 20 women in tech per cohort.
  • Hosted the first successful open-source hackathon in the Codess community in 2024.
  • Organized weekly open-source workshops for audiences of 50-100 with guest speakers.
  • Helped mentees craft proposals and create quality contributions for major open-source programs.

Jun 2021 - Sep 2021

MLH Fellow

Major League Hacking · Remote

  • Selected as one of 108 MLH Fellows from a pool of 20,000+ applicants in the Open Source Track.
  • Worked on Python-oriented open-source projects across data and web-based technologies.
  • Contributed to Mapillary Python SDK under Facebook and Howdoi, a CLI for rendering data in the command line.
  • Won the introductory hackathon with FellowBot, a mental health bot where I was the primary code contributor and documentation owner.
  • Recognized for my contributions and invited to interview for the Pod Leader role after completing the fellowship.