Celeste Horgan
Developer Educator, Aiven
Based in Berlin, Germany
Celeste is a Developer Educator at Aiven, where she focuses on bringing delightful, and creative content to Aiven’s tens of thousands of users. In previous roles, she’s acted as a documentation partner and advisor to the CNCF’s portfolio of open source projects, as an approver and Code of Conduct Committee member in the Kubernetes open source project, and as a team lead in documentation teams across a number of companies. In 2020 she founded the Inclusive Naming Initiative. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, and she presents frequently for global leaders in open source projects about documentation best practices.
Superpowers
Kubernetes
Cloud Native
Open source: governance, management, leveling up projects
Codes of conduct: implementation, governance, real-world battle stories
Documentation & writing for developers, docs as code
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Speaking activities
Past
API Days Paris
Everything I learned about API Design I learned from the support team
API Design tends to be the responsibility of lead developers and product leads, and the results are what you would expect: user requirements are mapped directly to the systems they communicate with, creating short, efficient paths to databases and other services. This seems great on the surface, but often leads to APIs that users find un-ergonomic at best and unusable at worst. Luckily, the solution is usually sitting right beside you: the support team.
In this talk we’ll go over examples from real-world support, documentation and developer relations organizations that challenge common conceptions of API design.
Dec 6, 2023 - Dec 8, 2023
Open Source Summit
Building on-Ramps for Non-Code Contributors in Open Source
Open source software is so much more than code – documentation, community, and infrastructure need maintaining. How do you attract and keep non-code contributors? Celeste Horgan & Natali Vlatko will show you the way!
Sep 19, 2023 - Sep 21, 2023
Berlin Buzzwords
Building on-ramps for non-techinical contributors in open source
Co-speaker: Natai Vlatko
Jun 18, 2023 - Jun 20, 2023