Joey de Villa

Developer relations expert and technical content creator

15+ years of building developer communities, creating engaging content, building applications, and fostering collaboration between developers and organizations

10M+
pageviews on GlobalNerdy.com,
my tech blog
20K+
monthly readers on GlobalNerdy.com
6K+
members in my Meetup groups
15+
years experience as a developer and developer relations professional

Featured Client Work

HP ZGX Nano

AI Workstation DevRel

Client Work 60-Day Sprint • 2025

Established HP's developer relations program for the ZGX Nano AI Workstation from scratch. Positioned HP as a serious player in the local AI compute market with zero PR budget.

"From near-zero presence to industry recognition in 8 weeks"

Featured on Intelligent Machines Podcast, episode 842

Intelligent Machines Podcast

Appeared with Andrew Hawthorn, Product Lead for HP's ZGX AI workstations, on this top AI podcast to discuss the ZGX Nano and local AI compute.

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Earned Media

Featured on TWiT's Intelligent Machines podcast

Sales Enablement

50+ pages of documentation, 12 use cases

Strategic Positioning

Differentiated from NVIDIA, Dell, Lenovo

Content Impact

Use cases adopted as official training videos

TECHNOLOGIES

NVIDIA GB10 CUDA 13 DGX OS Python AI/ML

Writer

Client

Wrote developer portal sections, cookbooks, Framework documentation, and API docs for their Palmyra LLM series.

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Packfiles

Client

Wrote comprehensive documentation for Warp, a service for migrating repositories to GitHub.

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Content and Courses

Auth0 Blog

Developer Content

Auth0 Articles
20K+
Monthly readers growth

Grew mobile dev readership from near-zero to 20,000/month. Articles rank higher than Apple's docs.

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Python for AI

Kodeco Course

Python for AI Course Free Course

Comprehensive course teaching developers how to use Python for AI and machine learning applications.

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Global Nerdy

Personal Tech Blog

10M+
Total pageviews since 2006

Nearly 5,000 articles on technology, programming, and nerd culture.

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Community Building

Tampa Bay Tech Community

Organizing meetups, events, and fostering collaboration

Tampa Bay Python

2,100+

members

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Tampa Bay Artificial Intelligence

2,100+

members

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Suncoast Software Skills

1,700+

members

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Coders, Creatives, and Craft Beer

800+

members

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Weekly Tampa Bay Tech Events List

A weekly list of Tampa Bay’s tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events, produced with the assistance of a Python script that scrapes event sites and schedule tables. Serving the Tampa Bay technology community since 2017.

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Presentations and Videos

AI and Machine Learning

Security and Authentication

Technology Career

ARKit and General Tech

  • ARKit Workshop

    4-hour pre-conference workshop at RWDevCon 2018 - built 4 AR apps

  • ARKit Development Session

    Highest-rated presenter at RWDevCon 2018

  • How Computers Work "Under the Hood"

    Tampa Devs, November 2023

Books

iOS Apprentice

8th Edition (2020-2021)

Co-Author

Wrote 485 pages covering SwiftUI framework for iOS 12 and iOS 13. Flagship publication for RayWenderlich.com (now Kodeco.com).

Learned and documented SwiftUI from scratch using Apple's early documentation.

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ARKit by Tutorials

2018

Technical Editor

Technical editor for comprehensive guide on building augmented reality apps for iOS using Apple's ARKit framework.

Published by RayWenderlich.com

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Shopify Application Development

2014

Technical Editor

Technical editor for guide on building applications for the Shopify e-commerce platform.

Published by Packt

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Let's work together!

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