Andrea Griffiths

Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub

Bradenton, Florida, United States

About

Career technologist and community connector specializing in AI-powered developer experiences that scale to 180M+ engineers worldwide. I thrive in building strong customer relationships, holistic decision-making, and enabling teams to harness AI and open source for accelerated software development. I write Main Branch, https://mainbranch.beehiiv.com/ a newsletter about developer fundamentals in the age of AI, available in English, ZH and Spanish.

Experience

  • GitHub (7 yrs 11 mos)
    • Senior Developer Advocate
      Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

    • Senior Product Manager
      Mar 2021 - Jan 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos

    • Community Program Manager
      Sep 2020 - Mar 2021 · 7 mos

  • Customer Success Manager at ODILO
    Sep 2017 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

    - Facilitated exceptional experiences for customers by understanding their objectives and helping to drive adoption of core functionality. Primary trainer and implementation specialist for onboarding of new accounts. - Worked with customers to establish critical goals, and other key performance indicators and helped customers in achieving their goals. -Trusted advocate for customer needs and manager of account escalations using Zendesk, with a 100% positive rating average. - Represented ODILO in multiple industry conferences, performing product demos to prospective customers and delivering value to current customers with refresher training in multiple languages. - Developed and executed seven seasonal marketing campaigns including social media strategies cross-platform (Facebook and Twitter), in innovative and strongly engaging ways

  • Community Manager Apprentice at GitHub
    Jan 2017 - Apr 2017 · 4 mos

    - Facilitated and maintained effective communication between the Atom text editor developers team and the Atom Open-Source community of over a million users. - Triaged issues in Atom’s repositories, reproducing bug reports, aids in prioritization and execution of feature requests. - Created comprehensive technical release notes for the Atom blog.

  • Construction Manager at Berman
    Jul 2015 - Dec 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Responsible for the general operations of the Construction division, including management of all accounts. Exceeded expectations in REO rehabilitation projects; raising the company’s Fannie Mae rating score to an all-time high.

  • Digital Specialist at Amazon
    Nov 2014 - Jul 2015 · 9 mos

    Provided account and application support to customers, specifically regarding software functionality and troubleshooting of system configuration