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title: "About"
description: "Davide Zambiasi, Senior Developer Relations Engineer: 4+ years across AI and blockchain infrastructure, the full work history, and the flight-instructing years before it."
url: "https://davidezambiasi.dev/about"
---

# 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

Remote · June 2024 – present

-   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

Remote · April 2022 – June 2024

-   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

Las Vegas, NV & Troutdale, OR · 2015 – 2019

-   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

Hours flown, as of August 2026.
| 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 |

Instrument time includes 5.7 hours actual. Not counted above: 40.8 hours in AATD/BATD simulators and 84.6 hours of simulator instruction given.

It still shows up in the work: the [ATC transcription benchmark](/projects/atc-live-transcript) and the [Preflight Agent](/projects/preflight-agent-restate) are both built on domain knowledge I can vouch for rather than a dataset I found.

## Where the work lives

-   [Projects](/projects): repos, example apps, and docs work.
-   [Writing](/notes): guides on AI tooling, LLMs, and Linux, plus earlier posts on [my blog](https://blog.davideai.dev).
-   [GitHub](https://github.com/soos3d): the source for all of it.
-   [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davide-zambiasi): roles and history.

## What's next

I'm building [The DevRel Field Report](/report), a quarterly, sourced read of the DevRel job market, drawing on the hiring side of this work.

## Contact

Email [davidezambiasi@gmail.com](mailto:davidezambiasi@gmail.com).

DZ

Davide Zambiasi

Senior Developer Relations Engineer

I ship the docs, guides, and example apps that get developers building, and I hire for the roles that do the same.

[GitHub](https://github.com/soos3d)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davide-zambiasi)[Blog](https://blog.davideai.dev)

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