Carmen Huidobro

(she/her) | CTO building human, trustworthy products

Developer Relations and Developer Education

Developer Relations, Advocacy, and Open Source Strategy

Developer Relations Lead

Distribute Aid

March 2022 - Present

https://distributeaid.org
  • Outcome: Increased contributor effectiveness in mission-critical open source operations
  • Scope: DevRel program leadership and distributed contributor enablement
  • Tech: onboarding systems, technical communication frameworks, and community operations.
  • Lead developer relations initiatives for open-source humanitarian technology.
  • Improve contributor onboarding and engagement across distributed communities.
  • Coordinate technical communication between maintainers, contributors, and stakeholders.

Tech Speaker

Mozilla Tech Speakers

December 2018 - Present

https://wiki.mozilla.org/TechSpeakers
  • Outcome: Expanded developer ecosystem reach through high-impact technical speaking
  • Scope: Advocacy-led education and community knowledge distribution
  • Tech: technical communication, developer education, and conference delivery systems.
  • Deliver technical talks for developer communities and events.
  • Translate platform topics into practical, audience-appropriate guidance.
  • Support inclusive knowledge sharing through speaker-led advocacy initiatives.

Developer Educator

Directus

September 2024 - September 2025

https://directus.io
  • Outcome: Increased developer activation and integration success
  • Scope: Product-facing technical education and implementation enablement
  • Tech: API onboarding, architecture-focused documentation, and live technical demos.
  • Create technical education content that helps developers integrate and ship faster.
  • Deliver hands-on demos, walkthroughs, and onboarding guidance for core product capabilities.
  • Partner with product and engineering to translate roadmap changes into developer-facing material.

Head of Developer Education

DevCraft Academy

July 2023 - August 2024

https://devcraft.academy/
  • Outcome: Improved cohort delivery outcomes and job-ready engineering capability
  • Scope: Developer education strategy and applied curriculum operations
  • Tech: JavaScript/TypeScript instruction, project-based delivery, and assessment frameworks.
  • Design and own curriculum strategy for multi-level developer training programs.
  • Lead delivery of workshops, lessons, and project-based learning modules.
  • Measure learner progress and iterate course structure based on outcomes.

Senior Developer Advocate

Suborbital Software Systems

February 2022 - June 2023

https://suborbital.dev
  • Outcome: Reduced onboarding friction and improved developer conversion quality
  • Scope: Product feedback loops, advocacy signal capture, and enablement systems
  • Tech: DX analysis, technical documentation architecture, and tooling narratives.
  • Advocate for developer needs across engineering, product, and go-to-market teams.
  • Produce technical documentation and educational material for platform adoption.
  • Run feedback loops that connect community insights to product improvements.

Head of Open Source

CodeSee

January 2021 - January 2022

https://codesee.io/
  • Outcome: Expanded open-source contribution velocity and platform adoption
  • Scope: OSS strategy, maintainer enablement, and technical narrative design
  • Tech: contributor systems, developer workflow education, and product storytelling.
  • Define and execute open-source strategy aligned with product and community goals.
  • Build contributor pathways, maintainer support systems, and collaboration practices.
  • Lead technical storytelling to demonstrate real developer workflows and value.

Developer Education and Technical Instruction

Founder

Bad Website Club

November 2022 - Present

https://badwebsite.club
  • Outcome: Built a sustained technical learning community with repeat participation
  • Scope: Community-led curriculum design and workshop delivery
  • Tech: web fundamentals, facilitation systems, and peer-learning frameworks.
  • Design and run recurring workshops that teach practical web development skills.
  • Facilitate peer feedback and mentoring structures for community participants.
  • Maintain program content, delivery cadence, and learner support resources.

Guest Instructor

UpLeveled

2021 - Present

https://upleveled.io
  • Outcome: Increased cohort readiness for production engineering environments
  • Scope: Guest instruction for applied software delivery practices
  • Tech: full-stack workflows, code review systems, and collaboration tooling.
  • Deliver guest sessions focused on production software engineering practices.
  • Coach learners on code quality, collaboration workflows, and debugging approaches.
  • Support curriculum outcomes with practical examples and implementation guidance.

Free JavaScript Bootcamp

Class Central

January 2021 - January 2022

https://www.classcentral.com/study-group/js-bootcamp-spring-2022
  • Outcome: Delivered scalable JavaScript education to 35,000+ learners across cohorts
  • Scope: Large-scale remote bootcamp program execution
  • Tech: practical JavaScript training, remote delivery operations, and learner support systems.
  • Design and deliver large-scale remote JavaScript bootcamp curricula.
  • Manage cohort communication, pacing, and learner support workflows.
  • Provide practical exercises and guidance to improve learner completion and confidence.

Curso Profesional de TypeScript Video Course

Escuela Frontend

January 2021 - January 2022

https://www.escuelafrontend.com/
  • Outcome: Advanced learners from foundational syntax to production-grade TypeScript usage
  • Scope: End-to-end professional course design and delivery
  • Tech: TypeScript, curriculum architecture, and recorded technical instruction systems.
  • Plan and structure a complete professional TypeScript curriculum.
  • Record and produce technical lessons with real-world coding examples.
  • Guide learners from foundational concepts to production-ready patterns.

Self Study

  • Fundamentals - Refactoring (Beck, Fowler, 1999), UNIX in a nutshell (Robbins, 2005), Extreme Programming Explained (Beck, 1999), Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Feathers, 2004), Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (Metz, 2007).
  • Object Oriented Programming - Design Patterns (Gang of four, 1994).
  • Programming Languages - Programming Phoenix (Tate, McCord, Valim, 2016), Programming Elixir (Thomas, 2014), The Rust Programming Language (Nichols, Klabnik, 2018), Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! A Beginner's Guide (Lipovaca, 2011).

Community Work