Rishab Kumar

Staff Developer Evangelist, Cloud Engineer, DevRel builder

I help developers understand, build, and ship with cloud, communications, and AI tooling. My work sits at the intersection of technical storytelling, developer experience, community, and real infrastructure depth.

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7+ years across DevRel, cloud, and DevOps

Hands-on experience across AWS, Azure, GCP, Twilio APIs, DevSecOps, and developer education.

30+ talks, webinars, and videos

Built technical content that helps developers move from idea to working implementation.

4.5K GitHub stars for Learn to Cloud

Cofounded an open-source guide used by roughly 10,000 learners per month.

65% faster testing and releases

Created deployment automation with Azure DevOps, Terraform, AWS, and Azure.

Core strengths

What I am good at shipping

Developer advocacy for APIs, AI integrations, and cloud platforms
Technical content, demos, sample apps, and workshop design
Documentation quality, developer feedback loops, and cross-functional DX work
Cloud security, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability

Experience

High-impact work

May 2022 - Present

Staff Developer Evangelist

Twilio · Dallas, TX

  • Created technical blogs, talks, webinars, videos, demo apps, and sample code that make Twilio APIs and AI integrations easier for developers to adopt.
  • Partnered with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Microsoft, and Google teams to improve documentation, developer resources, and developer experience.
  • Championed AI-assisted development workflows through content and workshops using tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Cursor.
Jan 2022 - May 2022

Technical Solutions Specialist

Google · Waterloo, ON

  • Guided enterprise customers through GCP architecture and security configuration for Cloud Storage, BigQuery, and Cloud SQL.
  • Reduced high-priority case resolution time by authoring internal troubleshooting guides.
May 2018 - Jan 2022

DevOps Engineer and Cloud Engineer

ECI Software Solutions · Kingston, ON

  • Reduced release time by 59% with secure CloudFormation templates and cut testing and release time by 65% with deployment automation.
  • Built secure-by-default Terraform modules, CI/CD security checks, AWS Config scanning, and WAF-backed load balancing for systems handling 50M+ weekly connections.
  • Expanded observability coverage to 95% of services with Datadog and PRTG, helping reduce cloud spend by 15%.

Selected projects

Proof points

Learn to Cloud

Cofounder of an open-source cloud learning guide with 4.5K GitHub stars and roughly 10,000 monthly users.

 AI Voice Assistant

Built and taught an AI voice assistant using Gemini, Twilio, and Python.

 AWS Sentinel CLI

Built a Python CLI that scans AWS accounts for common security issues and misconfigurations.

 LangChain Crash Course

Taught a LangChain crash course on the freeCodeCamp YouTube channel.

Recognition

Signals

Google Developer Expert AWS Community Builder Docker Captain HashiCorp Ambassador GitHub Star Canada Developer 30 Under 30

Credentials

Certifications

Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Google Generative AI Leader GitHub Actions Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate HashiCorp Terraform Associate AWS DevOps Engineer Professional