Quinton Wall
AI developer, author, and adventurer · San Francisco, California
← AboutAI 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 – PresentLead 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 2025Hands-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 2024Responsible 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 2021Led 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 2018Led 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
2005Grad. Dip. Information Technology · Swinburne University
2002Technologies & 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.