Hiya! I'm Andrea 👋

What I'm working on

🚢 Writing Main Branch
A weekly newsletter about dev tools and fundamentals (no AI hype, just features that help you ship)

🎙️ Hosting
• The GitHub Podcast
• Open Source Friday
• Checkout

✍️ Writing for The GitHub Blog
Topics: Copilot, developer workflows, security

🧰 Building demos and working with product teams on what developers actually need

🛠️ Creating open source developer tools

💡 Ask me about

• GitHub features and workflows (PRs, Actions, Projects)
• Developer advocacy and DevRel
• Building developer communities
• Open source contribution and maintainership
• Anything else - I'm always happy to help!

📬 Connect with me

🎨 Virtual Bio

Virtual Bio by @carlogilmar

😎 Fun facts about me

• Mom to two boys and two dogs 🐶🐶
• My partner is Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
• Former NCO in the US Army
• Learned to code through freeCodeCamp during lunch breaks in 2016
• Sticky toffee pudding from Nant Ddu is my favorite dessert
• Proud founding member of @octogatos
• I'm a breat cancer survivor

🏆 Some highlights