Wesley
Faulkner
DevRel strategist. I podcast and speak.
I help engineers and the people who build for them find each other. Twenty years across AMD, Atlassian, Dell, IBM, MongoDB, and AWS. Today, I chair the DevRel Foundation, co-host Community Pulse and Radical Respect, and speak about technical community, leadership, and neurodiversity.
A few things I'm proud of.
Twenty years of work — start with these four.
Listen in.
I co-host Community Pulse and Radical Respect, and guest on TWiT. The latest is below.
On stage.
Keynotes, panels, and workshops on DevRel, community, leadership, and neurodiversity. Always interested in a stage I haven't stood on yet.
Everything else.
Two decades of talks, episodes, and essays. Filter for what you're after.
The work.
Twenty years of practice. Current roles up top.
What people say.
Recent recommendations from colleagues across Alpaca, AWS, Pinecone, ServiceNow, and beyond. Lightly excerpted from my LinkedIn recommendations.
We worked closely together on Alpaca's MCP Server, which later became one of the first financial apps officially integrated into ChatGPT from OpenAI. That would not have happened without his drive and creativity.
Wesley is exceptional at building communities. He consistently demonstrates a rare combination of empathy, strategic thinking, and genuine dedication to others' success.
Widely respected across the global AWS community, Wesley's commitment to creating memorable experiences, fostering connections, and driving tangible results is truly inspiring.
Wesley brings his whole, authentic self to work and encourages others to do the same. This authenticity earned trust with the AWS community and made it safer for those on his team to also come as themselves and to speak up.
If I had to boil down everything to a single word — empathy. Wesley has a lot of that, and that was a big part of his success here. He really did care about how our communities formed, grew, and worked with us.
Wesley has a gift for identifying gaps and possibilities and seeing a strategic path forward. He is exceptionally knowledgeable about digital content, forums, and online communities.