Quinton Wall

AI developer, author, and adventurer · San Francisco, California

← About

AI developer and hands-on Developer Relations leader. I code, create content, and launch and position developer products to scale awareness, adoption, engagement, and retention. I've built vibrant communities at scale for BEA, Salesforce, Heroku, Twilio, Airbyte, and Postman — and I created and run three live AI apps in production: mycaminoguide.com, axrank.ai, and getbitwit.com.

Experience

Head of Developer Relations · Postman

Sep 2025 – Present

Lead a team of 7 advocates worldwide driving adoption of Postman and AI tools.

  • Own YouTube, Discord, Discourse, and Luma community, currently seeing 40% MoM growth.
  • Created the Claude Code Plugin, Kiro Superpower, and Cursor Plugin for Postman, plus tutorials and videos to drive adoption.
  • Set strategic direction against key KPIs: signups, DAU, sentiment, content growth, activation, and community.
  • Launched the Agents & APIs Luma community, growing to 10,000 members in 7 months.
  • Fully automated blog creation and community newsletters using Claude agent teams.
  • Built LiftOff, a learning system for developers, powered by Claude.

Head of Developer Relations · Airbyte

Aug 2024 – Aug 2025

Hands-on DevRel lead building a community of 50,000+ data and AI engineers.

  • Wrote code samples, blogs, videos, tutorials, and onboarding nurture flows.
  • Created fast-pyairbyte to generate integration pipelines as code using AI and RAG.
  • Increased time to first milestone by 7% through lifecycle measurement and nurtures.
  • Grew the community to 25,000+ members, 50,000 monthly email subscribers, and 12,000+ YouTube subscribers with 200,000+ monthly impressions.
  • Open-source community management, driving repos to 18,000+ GitHub stars.

Head of Developer Relations · ThoughtSpot

Oct 2022 – Aug 2024

Responsible for launching the new developer platform, ThoughtSpot Anywhere.

  • Created the end-to-end developer portal, developers.thoughtspot.com, growing the community from 0 to 3,000 developers.
  • Wrote tutorials, code samples, and an interactive Playground.
  • Established partnerships with leading Modern Data Stack players to grow developer awareness.
  • Reduced time to onboard by 18% and decreased churn by 6% via clear KPIs and success metrics.
  • Delivered in-person content to 1,000+ developers through meetups and workshops.

Sr. Director, Platform Technical Marketing · Twilio

Oct 2018 – Apr 2021

Led the team bringing Twilio's serverless runtime and developer tools to market.

  • Owned the keynote for Signal, Twilio's annual developer conference, and roadshows.
  • Created platform messaging, narrative, and GTM launches.
  • Launched CodeExchange, a repository of searchable code samples and demos, driving 10k+ monthly views.
  • Increased multi-product adoption by 15% by shifting to a platform strategy over individual tools.

Sr. Director, Developer Evangelism · Salesforce

Oct 2008 – Oct 2018

Led the developer evangelism team growing the community to over 3 million developers.

  • Produced code samples, demos, tutorials, learning paths, workshops, webinars, and presentations.
  • Owned the developer keynote and content track for Dreamforce and roadshows, leading to 1M+ views.
  • Implemented community-led ambassador programs to scale the content pipeline.
  • Solutions architecture and go-live success for strategic customers.

Education

B.Sc. Organizational Leadership & Behavior · Mountain State University

2005

Grad. Dip. Information Technology · Swinburne University

2002

Technologies & Languages

Languages

SwiftReactPythonRubyNode.jsJavaJavaScriptNext.js

Technologies

PostgresAWSSalesforceGCPHerokuSnowflakeGitSupabaseVercelLangchainStreamlit

AI & Tools

ClaudeAnthropicOpenAIDeepSeekCursorClineColabPostHogHubSpotFigma

Selected Writing & Press

Bylines and guest articles across Forbes, TechCrunch, InfoWorld, The Guardian, and more.