Raouf Chebri

Developer Relations Engineer, AWS Community Builder, and AI Engineer with over a decade of experience building and scaling global developer programs at Microsoft and Neon.

As a Founding Developer Advocate, I helped grow Neon from zero to nearly a million users, resulting in its $1B acquisition by Databricks. Strong track record bridging engineering, product, and community. I experimented and built developer programs, led vector search initiatives, organized global events, wrote articles, guides on the docs and blog. and built relationships and partnerships.

Neon Growth

Helped scale Neon from zero to nearly 1 million users.

AWS Community Builder

Recognized as AI Engineer AWS Community Builder.

Technical Content

Published 35+ technical articles and tutorials reaching hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide.

Experience

Neon

Founding Developer Advocate

Led developer relations efforts that helped scale the platform from zero to nearly 1 million users. Built comprehensive developer documentation, created technical content, and established community programs that contributed to Neon's successful $1B acquisition by Databricks.

ScyllaDB

Developer Advocate

Focused on building relationships with the distributed systems and database communities. Created technical content around NoSQL databases, performance optimization, and distributed systems architecture.

Microsoft

Developer Relations

Worked on global developer relations programs, helping developers adopt Microsoft technologies and build solutions on the Azure platform. Engaged with developer communities across multiple regions and technologies.

DevRel Philosophy

As a Developer Relations Engineer, my mission is to connect with developers and help solve their problems, educate them on the latest technological trends and their trade-offs, and help product and engineering teams build the best developer experience.

Connect with developers & help solve problems

Building genuine connections with developers and helping solve their real-world problems through direct engagement, community support, and technical guidance.

Educate developers on the latest technological trends and their trade-offs

Educating developers on the latest technological trends, providing honest assessments of trade-offs, and helping them make informed technology decisions.

Build developer experience

Collaborating with product and engineering teams to build exceptional developer experiences, from documentation to tooling and platform capabilities.

Connect with Developers & Help Solve Problems

Why

  • Increase brand awareness
  • Build credibility and trust within the community
  • Seek developer feedback

How

I actively engage with developers on social media and at in-person events such as community meetups and conferences. My goal is to have honest discussions to help solve their problems and build trust within the community.

Trust Formula

Trust = (Credibility + Reliability) / Self-interest

Source: The Trusted Advisor

Credibility

Know your stuff and be honest about what you don't know

Reliability

Be transparent and do what you say

Self-interest

The less self-centered, the bigger the trust

How to Measure

Number of events attended
In-person engagements

Community Engagement

Meetups and Communities

ParisTypeScript Paris
ParisGenAI Paris
ParisAI Tinkerers
NYCAI Agent Tools at Microsoft Reactor NYC
AmsterdamVercel | Neon | Miro Amsterdam
BerlinAI Tinkerers
San FranciscoAll Things Web
San FranciscoHack Events by Weaviate
BerlinHack Events by Weaviate
ChamonixCode on Slopes

Conference Participations & Sponsorships

2023JS World 2023
2024We Are Developers 2024 (Sponsor & Side Events)
2024Next.js Conf 2024 (Sponsor)
2024GitHub Universe 2024 (Attendee)
2024GenAI France 2024 (Organizer and Speaker)
2024AWS re:Invent 2024 (Sponsor)
2025React Paris 2025 (Sponsor)
2025React Miami 2025 (Sponsor)
2025AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 (Speaker Manager)
2025AI Engineer Summit NYC 2025 (Speaker Manager)

Talks

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Developer Days

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Open Source Projects

create-branch-action

GitHub Action for creating Neon database branches

neon-examples

Collection of examples and tutorials for Neon

mcp-server-neon

MCP Server for Neon database integration

pg_embedding

PostgreSQL extension for vector search with HNSW index

neon

Serverless Postgres with a generous free tier

neon-js

JavaScript/TypeScript client for Neon

neon-python

Python client for Neon

neon-go

Go client for Neon

neon-rust

Rust client for Neon

neon-cli

Command-line interface for Neon

neon_swarm

AI-powered tools and agents for Neon PostgreSQL databases using OpenAI Swarm Framework

Educate Developers on Trends and Their Trade-offs

Why

  • Increase product awareness
  • Elevate the brand
  • Drive activations

How

Through blog posts, videos, demos, and hands-on projects that show how to effectively use devtools in real-world scenarios.

How to Measure

Article views
YouTube engagement (views, likes, comments)
Signups

Technical Articles & Tutorials

Educational Videos

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Build the Best Developer Experience

Why

  • Ensure the platform is intuitive and fast to use
  • Make developers productive from day one

How

Work closely with the product, engineering and support teams to collect and implement developer feedback, remove friction and build tooling.

Contributions

Prisma integration
Vector Search through pgvector andpg_embedding

pg_embedding

pg_embedding extension for vector search

20x faster than pgvector: introducing pg_embedding extension for vector search in Postgres and LangChain

With the help of Konstantin Knizhnik, we implemented the HNSW index for faster vector search on Postgres through the pg_embedding extension. I then acted PM for 6 months before we sunsetted the project in favor of pgvector. I then was responsible to QA all pgvector releases and testing it with Neon autoscaling.

Serverless Driver

Sub-10ms Postgres queries for Vercel Edge Functions

Sub-10ms Postgres queries for Vercel Edge Functions

I helped testing and giving feedback about the serverless driver including suggesting HTTP implementation over WebSocket implementation for one shot query performance. I benchmarked the driver against other drivers in different environments such as Lambda and Cloudflare Workers.

MCP Server

Bringing MCP to the Cloud

Bringing MCP to the Cloud

I tested and shared feedback with the MCP team to implement remote server, functions and explain expected behavior. This contribution helped shape the MCP protocol and its cloud integration capabilities.

How to Measure

Developer satisfaction scores
Time to first successful deployment
Support ticket reduction

Interested in Working Together?

Whether you're looking to build a DevRel program from scratch or scale existing initiatives, I'd love to discuss how we can work together.