About
I'm Davide Zambiasi, senior developer relations engineer. I've spent 4+ years in developer relations across AI and blockchain infrastructure, much of it on the hiring side of the table.
What I do
My job is making hard infrastructure buildable: documentation sets, published guides, and example apps developers clone and adapt. The through-line from blockchain nodes to LLM tooling is the same craft: explain the system, ship the working example, remove the first hour of friction.
Experience
Senior Developer Relations Engineer — Particle Network
- Own developer relations end to end: strategy, technical content, partner enablement, and the developer feedback loop into engineering.
- Support partner integrations end to end: guides, code examples, workshops, and hackathons, most recently Encode Club's UXmaxx Hackathon.
- Write the integration guides, docs, and demos developers start from (TypeScript, Node.js, React, Next.js).
- Served as first user of every new SDK feature, surfacing design flaws and driving API fixes before launch.
Developer Advocate Lead — Chainstack
- Led a team of developer advocates owning open-source samples, onboarding flows, and developer content for blockchain APIs and SDKs.
- Maintained documentation, API references, and tutorials that cut repeat support tickets and moved developers from signup to first working call.
- Partnered with engineering to refine SDK structure, improve API consistency, and harden developer flows.
- Built internal tooling for testing, debugging, and cross-language environment parity.
Before developer relations
I taught people to fly. Four years as a flight instructor, most of it in helicopters, at a Part 141 academy where every lesson is a written procedure someone has to follow correctly the first time, at altitude, with the ground getting closer. That is where the documentation habit comes from: assume the reader is busy, tell them what to do in order, and never write a step you haven't done yourself.
Airplane & Helicopter Flight Instructor — Hillsboro Aero Academy
- Taught private through initial-CFI candidates at a Part 141 academy with 400+ students, 21 helicopters, and 85 airplanes.
- Worked as a Part 141 stage-check instructor and a Part 61/141 initial-CFI instructor, including full-down autorotation training.
- Logged 2,000 hours of instruction given, under the standardization and recordkeeping a Part 141 syllabus demands.
Certificates and ratings
- FAA Commercial Pilot
- Rotorcraft–Helicopter · Airplane Single-Engine Land · Airplane Multi-Engine Land · Instrument (helicopter and airplane)
- FAA Flight Instructor, Gold Seal
- CFI Rotorcraft–Helicopter · CFI Airplane Single-Engine · CFII (helicopter and airplane)
Logbook
| Category | Total | PIC | Dual given | X-country | Night | Instrument |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helicopter | 1,811.8 | 1,746.0 | 1,511.7 | 325.4 | 90.3 | 25.4 |
| Airplane SEL | 611.6 | 594.1 | 487.9 | 193.8 | 53.7 | 27.1 |
| Airplane MEL | 32.7 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 3.5 |
| Total | 2,456.1 | 2,341.7 | 1,999.6 | 521.6 | 144.0 | 56.0 |
It still shows up in the work: the ATC transcription benchmark and the Preflight Agent are both built on domain knowledge I can vouch for rather than a dataset I found.
Where the work lives
- Projects: repos, example apps, and docs work.
- Writing: guides on AI tooling, LLMs, and Linux, plus earlier posts on my blog.
- GitHub: the source for all of it.
- LinkedIn: roles and history.
What's next
I'm building The DevRel Field Report, a quarterly, sourced read of the DevRel job market, drawing on the hiring side of this work.
Contact
Email davidezambiasi@gmail.com.