{
  "name": "Davide Zambiasi",
  "role": "Senior Developer Relations Engineer",
  "site": "https://davidezambiasi.dev",
  "email": "davidezambiasi@gmail.com",
  "devrel_since": 2022,
  "experience": [
    {
      "company": "Particle Network",
      "title": "Senior Developer Relations Engineer",
      "start": "2024-06",
      "end": null,
      "location": "Remote",
      "highlights": [
        "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."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Chainstack",
      "title": "Developer Advocate Lead",
      "start": "2022-04",
      "end": "2024-06",
      "location": "Remote",
      "highlights": [
        "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."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aviation": {
    "summary": "Four years teaching people to fly helicopters and airplanes at Hillsboro Aero Academy, a Part 141 school: 2,456 hours logged, 2,000 of them instruction given. FAA Commercial Pilot and Gold Seal flight instructor.",
    "role": {
      "company": "Hillsboro Aero Academy",
      "title": "Airplane & Helicopter Flight Instructor",
      "start_year": 2015,
      "end_year": 2019,
      "location": "Las Vegas, NV & Troutdale, OR",
      "highlights": [
        "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": [
      {
        "certificate": "FAA Commercial Pilot",
        "ratings": "Rotorcraft–Helicopter · Airplane Single-Engine Land · Airplane Multi-Engine Land · Instrument (helicopter and airplane)"
      },
      {
        "certificate": "FAA Flight Instructor, Gold Seal",
        "ratings": "CFI Rotorcraft–Helicopter · CFI Airplane Single-Engine · CFII (helicopter and airplane)"
      }
    ],
    "flight_hours": {
      "as_of": "2026-08",
      "by_category": [
        {
          "category": "Helicopter",
          "total": 1811.8,
          "pic": 1746,
          "dualGiven": 1511.7,
          "crossCountry": 325.4,
          "night": 90.3,
          "instrument": 25.4
        },
        {
          "category": "Airplane SEL",
          "total": 611.6,
          "pic": 594.1,
          "dualGiven": 487.9,
          "crossCountry": 193.8,
          "night": 53.7,
          "instrument": 27.1
        },
        {
          "category": "Airplane MEL",
          "total": 32.7,
          "pic": 1.6,
          "dualGiven": 0,
          "crossCountry": 2.4,
          "night": 0,
          "instrument": 3.5
        }
      ],
      "total": {
        "category": "Total",
        "total": 2456.1,
        "pic": 2341.7,
        "dualGiven": 1999.6,
        "crossCountry": 521.6,
        "night": 144,
        "instrument": 56
      }
    }
  },
  "links": {
    "github": "https://github.com/soos3d",
    "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/davide-zambiasi",
    "blog": "https://blog.davideai.dev",
    "llms_txt": "https://davidezambiasi.dev/llms.txt",
    "rss": "https://davidezambiasi.dev/rss.xml"
  },
  "capabilities": [
    {
      "area": "Documentation systems",
      "summary": "Developer docs for infrastructure products: information architecture, references, quickstarts, and the maintenance that keeps them true.",
      "evidence": [
        "https://developers.particle.network"
      ]
    },
    {
      "area": "Guides and tutorials",
      "summary": "Published guides across AI tooling, LLMs, and blockchain infrastructure, written to remove the first hour of friction.",
      "evidence": [
        "https://davidezambiasi.dev/notes",
        "https://blog.davideai.dev"
      ]
    },
    {
      "area": "Example apps",
      "summary": "Cloneable repos developers adapt: RAG tooling, bots, and plugin boilerplates with working code, not pseudocode.",
      "evidence": [
        "https://davidezambiasi.dev/projects/chat-with-repo-langchain-openai",
        "https://davidezambiasi.dev/projects"
      ]
    },
    {
      "area": "Aviation domain",
      "summary": "FAA commercial pilot and flight instructor, 2,456 hours logged. Demos in the flight domain get judged against how the job is actually done, not against a dataset.",
      "evidence": [
        "https://davidezambiasi.dev/projects/atc-live-transcript",
        "https://davidezambiasi.dev/projects/preflight-agent-restate",
        "https://davidezambiasi.dev/about#before-developer-relations"
      ]
    },
    {
      "area": "DevRel leadership",
      "summary": "Owned developer relations end to end at Particle Network; led a team of developer advocates at Chainstack.",
      "evidence": [
        "https://davidezambiasi.dev/about",
        "https://www.encodeclub.com/programmes/uxmaxx-hackathon",
        "https://www.linkedin.com/in/davide-zambiasi"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "toolchain": [
    {
      "category": "Languages",
      "tools": [
        "Python",
        "TypeScript",
        "JavaScript"
      ],
      "proof": "https://github.com/soos3d"
    },
    {
      "category": "AI tooling",
      "tools": [
        "LangChain",
        "OpenAI API",
        "Ollama"
      ],
      "proof": "https://davidezambiasi.dev/projects/chat-with-repo-langchain-openai"
    },
    {
      "category": "Web",
      "tools": [
        "Express",
        "Astro"
      ],
      "proof": "https://github.com/soos3d/chatgpt-plugin-development-quickstart-express"
    },
    {
      "category": "Blockchain",
      "tools": [
        "web3.py",
        "Hardhat",
        "Foundry",
        "EVM chains"
      ],
      "proof": "https://github.com/soos3d/call-smart-contract-functions-using-web3.py"
    },
    {
      "category": "Aviation data",
      "tools": [
        "Aviation weather (METAR, TAF, PIREP, SIGMET)",
        "LiveATC audio",
        "Deepgram"
      ],
      "proof": "https://davidezambiasi.dev/projects/preflight-agent-restate"
    },
    {
      "category": "Systems",
      "tools": [
        "Linux",
        "Telegram Bot API"
      ],
      "proof": "https://davidezambiasi.dev/notes/linux-essentials"
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "title": "Particle Network developer docs",
      "description": "Developer documentation for Particle Network's wallet-abstraction and chain-abstraction stack, maintained as part of owning developer relations.",
      "role": "Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Particle Network",
      "stack": [
        "docs",
        "devrel"
      ],
      "published": "2025-06-01",
      "url": "https://developers.particle.network"
    },
    {
      "title": "Postflight: an approval-gated posting agent",
      "description": "An OpenClaw skill that drafts social posts from your code commits and publishes only when you reply 'ship' on Telegram.",
      "role": "Author",
      "stack": [
        "openclaw",
        "agent-skills",
        "telegram"
      ],
      "published": "2026-08-03",
      "url": "https://davidezambiasi.dev/projects/postflight"
    },
    {
      "title": "Preflight Agent: durable AI flight briefings",
      "description": "A Restate + Claude demo where a weather-briefing workflow suspends for hours, survives process kills, and resumes exactly where it left off.",
      "role": "Author",
      "stack": [
        "typescript",
        "restate",
        "claude"
      ],
      "published": "2026-07-21",
      "url": "https://davidezambiasi.dev/projects/preflight-agent-restate"
    },
    {
      "title": "Can Nova-3 understand air traffic control?",
      "description": "A live stress-test of Deepgram Nova-3 on real ATC tower audio: baseline vs keyterm prompting, side by side, with word-level confidence.",
      "role": "Author",
      "stack": [
        "typescript",
        "deepgram",
        "next.js"
      ],
      "published": "2026-07-21",
      "url": "https://davidezambiasi.dev/projects/atc-live-transcript"
    },
    {
      "title": "Migrating a production bot to Nebius Token Factory",
      "description": "The one-line diff that moved my live Telegram translation bot to Token Factory, plus a measured three-model comparison on the real workload.",
      "role": "Author",
      "stack": [
        "typescript",
        "llm",
        "telegram"
      ],
      "published": "2026-07-22",
      "url": "https://davidezambiasi.dev/projects/translator-bot-token-factory"
    },
    {
      "title": "Chat with any GitHub repo",
      "description": "A Python tool that ingests a GitHub repository, builds embeddings with LangChain, and lets you ask questions about the codebase through OpenAI models.",
      "role": "Author",
      "stack": [
        "python",
        "langchain",
        "openai"
      ],
      "published": "2023-06-04",
      "url": "https://davidezambiasi.dev/projects/chat-with-repo-langchain-openai"
    },
    {
      "title": "SpectraCoreX",
      "description": "An open-source, fully local home automation ecosystem: modular services that perceive, reason, and act without sending anything to the cloud.",
      "role": "Creator",
      "stack": [
        "local-first",
        "computer-vision",
        "event-driven"
      ],
      "published": "2025-10-13",
      "url": "https://github.com/SpectraCoreX"
    },
    {
      "title": "AI Telegram translator bot",
      "description": "An LLM-powered Telegram bot that auto-translates messages in multilingual group chats.",
      "role": "Author",
      "stack": [
        "python",
        "llm",
        "telegram"
      ],
      "published": "2025-06-20",
      "url": "https://github.com/soos3d/ai-tg-translator-bot"
    },
    {
      "title": "ChatGPT plugin quickstart (Express.js)",
      "description": "A JavaScript boilerplate for building ChatGPT plugins with Express, from manifest to deployed endpoint.",
      "role": "Author",
      "stack": [
        "javascript",
        "express"
      ],
      "published": "2023-05-19",
      "url": "https://github.com/soos3d/chatgpt-plugin-development-quickstart-express"
    },
    {
      "title": "web3.py smart-contract tutorials",
      "description": "Hands-on Python tutorials for calling smart-contract functions and inspecting pending transactions on EVM chains with web3.py.",
      "role": "Author",
      "stack": [
        "python",
        "web3.py",
        "evm"
      ],
      "published": "2022-09-21",
      "url": "https://github.com/soos3d/call-smart-contract-functions-using-web3.py"
    }
  ],
  "writing": [
    {
      "title": "The LangChain series, three years on",
      "description": "In 2023 I wrote a nine-part series on building with LangChain, from environment setup to chatting with your own data. What it covered, what has changed, and where to read it.",
      "published": "2026-08-04",
      "url": "https://davidezambiasi.dev/notes/the-langchain-series"
    },
    {
      "title": "SpectraCoreX",
      "description": "An open-source initiative to build a fully local, privacy-first home automation ecosystem: the idea, the module architecture, and where it's going.",
      "published": "2025-10-13",
      "url": "https://davidezambiasi.dev/notes/spectracorex",
      "original_url": "https://blog.davideai.dev/spectracorex"
    },
    {
      "title": "Linux Essentials",
      "description": "The Linux fundamentals you use every day: flags and manuals, creating and moving files, reading permissions, switching users, and what /etc, /var, /root, and /tmp mean for security.",
      "published": "2025-10-11",
      "url": "https://davidezambiasi.dev/notes/linux-essentials",
      "original_url": "https://blog.davideai.dev/linux-essentials"
    },
    {
      "title": "Run LLMs locally with Ollama",
      "description": "A practical walkthrough of running LLMs on your own machine with Ollama and DeepSeek Coder: install, CLI basics, the local API, and a Python integration.",
      "published": "2024-03-11",
      "url": "https://davidezambiasi.dev/notes/run-llms-locally-with-ollama",
      "original_url": "https://blog.davideai.dev/run-llms-locally-with-ollama"
    }
  ]
}