👋🏽 Hi friends, I'm Will.

I'm a developer experience engineer and advocate focused on building better tools, and I give talks on improving the developer experience (DX). Presently I'm a lead advocate at North Developer helping devs build better payment experiences. Let's chat!

Here are some things I've worked on:

• Teaching people how to write their first JavaScript tool through talks, workshops, and a little website: ASTsareAwesome.com
• Growing the local developer community through monthly events. I previously organized React Denver, DenverScript and founded HartfordJS.
• Speaking at conferences like JSConf Iceland and CascadiaJS. I spoke most recently at JSNation about building your own JavaScript tools.
• Encouraging others to give their first meetup or conference talk, through direct mentorship and by organizing local workshops as part of Global Diversity CFP Day.
• Publishing a browser extension to add a table of contents to GitHub READMEs and Markdown files, before they implemented it themselves
• Helping maintain Canvas Kit, an open source design system library at Workday. I focused most on welcoming new contributors and growing an internal developer community.

Teaching Developer Advocacy

If you're writing code or building a product that other developers use, you're doing developer relations. If you want to be more intentional than accidental, let's have a chat: https://calendly.com/willklein.

My recent background is in design systems, but I'm also a specialist in building developer tools and designing a better developer experience. This includes documentation, community building, and improving cross-team relationships.