Andy Piper

Communications, partnerships, and ecosystem growth for the Mastodon project. Media relations, public speaking, writing, and supporting network opportunities. Additionally, continuing to support the developer community with Mastodon and the ActivityPub / Fediverse set of technologies and services.

Supporting the Mastodon Open Source project with Developer Relations and community building tasks, on a part-time freelance basis.

Running the volunteer crew for the OggCamp 2024 unconference, supporting the lead event organiser.

At Fabrik, we’re passionate about transforming the way communities come together by crafting spaces that foster connection, creativity, and collaboration. As a Founding 50 Member, I am deeply involved in creating dynamic environments that encourage genuine interactions and lasting relationships. We are dedicated to enhancing community engagement, making each Fabrik space a hub for community builders and their members. Join us as we redefine how communities interact and discover the true power of connectivity at Fabrik. Learn more and join: www.joinfabrik.com

Supporting the organisation of State of Open Con 24. I was responsible for organising and briefing more than 200 speakers across 8 content tracks and a plenary keynote stage. Speakers covered a range of experience levels and were international as well as from within the UK, including two senior politicians, many company founders and CEOs. The event also included a diverse range of panels and panellists who were covered by the briefings and organisational tasks.

Developer Relations professional working on Twitter’s developer platform, supporting strategy for developer product updates and creating community around the APIs.

Fixer and problem solver at the tenth anniversary of #OggCamp, the open source / hardware / philosophy unconference for good people.

Global lead developer advocate, supporting the incredible developer ecosystem around the Twitter products and data platform. Also, a community lead on the developer forums.

Eclipse Paho (MQTT) community coordinator, working on relationships and integration with other projects in the Eclipse IoT umbrella. Primary focus on documentation, samples and code fixes to improve the Paho codebase. Since May 2013 also co-lead of the Paho project responsible for administration etc.

Running an Arduino workshop at the first ever Devoxx4Kids event in London, teaching Arduino basics to groups of 8-14 year olds.

Informing, supporting and growing developer communities using the first Open Source, infrastructure agnostic cloud Platform-as-a-Service, Cloud Foundry. Speaker, writer, coder and all-around excited guy on the subject of the open web, clouds, apps and development.

Informing and supporting developer communities using the first Open Source cloud Platform-as-a-Service, Cloud Foundry. Speaker, writer, coder and all-around excited guy on the subject of clouds, apps and development.

Digital Surrey is a community for like-minded people wanting to stay up-to-date with the ever changing digital landscape, and: meet-up, network, learn, share. This community is an evolution of the Surrey Tweetup community which thebluedoor established in December 2009. Digital Surrey is designed to be as inclusive as possible to involve everyone in the business community with an interest in digital: PR, advertising, SEO, PPC, journalism, marketing, design, web architecture etc. Digital Surrey is evolving. If you would like to get involved, speak at event, host an event, ask a question, or are just curious, please email: getinvolved at digitalsurrey.co.uk

Worked with Makers at the Brighton Mini Maker Faire to present and explain their ideas to the public. Worked with the event organisers and venue staff to setup and teardown the exhibition, as well as being a volunteer crew member to enable the event to operate successfully.

Crew for the OggCamp 2012 unconference. General gofer enabling the event to function smoothly.

Crew for the Hack to the Future 2012 education unconference. Worked with team to enable the event to function smoothly.

Connect sales, technical and development teams, and work closely with IBM customers and partners to lead the conversation on the future of the WebSphere MQ family (WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere MQ, File Transfer Edition, Telemetry, Advanced Message Security, Low Latency Messaging)

Software Group Development Hursley Lab, Connectivity & Integration portfolio

Crew for the OggCamp 2011 unconference. General gofer enabling the event to function smoothly.

Co-host of a weekly podcast about technology, business, gaming, and social online trends. Website manager. Occasionally, also an audio editor.

Consultant working for IBM Software Services for WebSphere in the UK

Developer and middleware consultant for the UK Post Office.