Drew Gorton
Senior Director Of Developer Relations
Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDrew Gorton is a developer relations and developer experience leader with 13 years of experience building high-impact DevRel organizations for complex platforms. He has repeatedly scaled teams and systems—most recently growing Temporal’s DevRel from 2 to 16 and driving measurable onboarding and retention improvements—now rebuilding LaunchDarkly’s DevRel to position the company for the AI/runtime era. Drew excels in post‑product-market-fit environments where clarifying onboarding, instrumentation, and feedback loops turns technical power into trusted developer adoption. He blends hands-on program design (advocacy, education, docs, community) with product and GTM alignment, using developer metrics to inform sales scoring and fundraising narratives. A longtime founder and operator, he pairs empathy-driven team leadership with a knack for turning developer signal into strategic product decisions.
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
University of SevilleBA, Liberal Arts, BA, Liberal Arts at St. Olaf College
English, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (35)
continuous-deployment10
variants10
temporal10
feature-toggle10
pantheon10
feature-flags10
continuous-delivery10
sdk10
feature-management10
devops10
collaboration10
unleash10
documentation10
robot-controller9
wordpress9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dgorton/wordpress-at-scale
Jan 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
ownerswordpressgatheringsuccessscaling
temporal-community/ai-ide-rules
Apr 2025 - Aug 2025
Community collection of Cursor rules for working with Temporal and the AI IDE code generators (e.g. Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot)
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
aicode-generationcode-generatoridecursor
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