Media kit

For event organisers, hosts and anyone writing about my work.

Everything you need for a programme, a banner or an introduction, in one place. If something is missing, email me and I’ll send it.

Name and titles

Name: Joshua Poddoku
Title: Public Policy & Governance for Organizations and Communities
One line: Building things the humane way.
Also: Open Source evangelist · Apache committer · 7 years in pre-seed to Series A startups
Website: www.joshuapoddoku.com

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Joshua Poddoku works on public policy and governance for organizations and communities, and writes contribution policies with them. He is an Open Source evangelist and an Apache committer on Apache DevLake.

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Joshua Poddoku works on public policy and governance for organizations and communities. He is an Open Source evangelist and an Apache committer on Apache DevLake. At that Series A devtool company, he helped grow the community from 100 to up to 400 engineering leaders. Its project stars went from zero to over 3,000. He created Community Signals.

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Joshua Poddoku works on public policy and governance for organizations and communities, and writes contribution policies with them. He has seven years of remote work in pre-seed to Series A startups, across DevRel, go-to-market and community governance. He is an Apache committer on Apache DevLake, the engineering intelligence project. At that Series A devtool company, he helped grow the community from 100 to up to 400 engineering leaders. Its project stars went from zero to over 3,000. He started two local Open Source meetups in India and co-authored Handbook for Founders: The Power of Genuine Users. He has spoken at GDG DevFest, Microsoft Reactor, FOSS United and Open Source India, where he was Track Chair. He created Community Signals, which tracked how people talk about AI-written code.