~ human in residence ~

I'm Josh Dzielak, a.k.a dzello. In both cases, the "dz" is pronounced like a soft "j".

I do developer relations. Currently, I'm the Developer Relations Lead at Algolia, helping developers build fast and satisfying search experiences for their users. In the past, I've worked at companies like Keen IO and Disney, building APIs and helping get them into the hands of tens of thousands of developers.

Josh Dzielak speaking at DevXCon

To learn more about me, visit the about page. You can see a list of things I've spoken or written about on the works page, or find me elsewhere on the internets:

~ latest blog posts ~

~ developer relations ~

Building for developers—a tour of new features and resources in 2017 (Algolia blog, June 2017)
From few to some to many — How to scale community support for APIs (DevXCon, May 2017)
How I got into developer advocacy (Medium, March 2017)
On MLK Day and every day — you can lend your privilege (Medium, Jan 2017)
The Developer Advocate's Guide to Github Universe (Medium, Sep 2016)

~ featured tech posts ~

How Algolia Reduces Latency For 21B Searches Per Month (StackShare, March 2017)
Comparing Algolia and Elasticsearch For Consumer-Grade Search Part 2: Relevance Isn’t Luck (Algolia blog, April 2017)
Comparing Algolia and Elasticsearch For Consumer-Grade Search Part 1: End-to-end Latency (Algolia blog, March 2017)
7 Things You Didn’t Know Algolia’s New Address Autocomplete Could Do (Medium, June 2016)
One Billion Per Second - The Rise of Designer Data Architectures (Defrag, Nov 2013)
Evolving Work - A presentation about the book Reinventing Organizations (St. Jean de Passy, Nov 2015)
Store JSON in Cassandra the Hard Way (Heavybit, July 2014)

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