Developer Platforms  ·  Product Marketing  ·  Applied AI

The hardest part of technology
is not building it.

It is getting people to use it.

I build the systems that make that happen across developer platforms, product marketing, and applied AI. From documentation and onboarding to AI-powered workflows, I turn complex systems into products developers actually adopt.

Sand City, CA — Monterey PeninsulaAvailable NowResume ↓
Luke Kilpatrick
AI-native builder
15+Years Experience
246KVideo Views
10KTikTok in 3 Months
1,300+Books Sold
What I Do

Four capabilities. One throughline.

Every role, every company, every project: making powerful technology accessible to the people who need to use it. AI is now woven through all of it.

Developer Experience

Developer portals, API documentation, onboarding flows, and technical content that turn complex platforms into tools people actually adopt. Built from zero at Nutanix, LinearB, and Hazelcast.

Faster time-to-first-value. Lower support burden. Higher ecosystem retention.

Product Marketing

Launch strategy, positioning, competitive messaging, and release communications for developer-facing products. Technical depth and market narrative at the same time.

Clear positioning that converts. Launches that land. Messaging that sticks.

Developer Relations

Community programs, ecosystem events, conference speaking, and developer advocacy at scale. Ran Codegeist at Atlassian. Built Nutanix Dev Live. Spoke at DevRelCon.

Ecosystems that grow themselves. Communities with real signal.
Selected Systems

What I build when the problem is real.

Each of these is a system, not a project. What it is, what I built, why it matters.

Race Management

MPYC RaceDay

Real-Time Sailing Race Platform
WhatA role-based web platform for real-time race management at the Monterey Peninsula Yacht Club.
BuiltLive scoring, weather integration, race day coordination across multiple simultaneous roles. Mobile-first, built for a real community that actually uses it every weekend.
Role-based designLive dataMobile-firstRace scoring
I built this because the existing tools were not good enough. That is usually why I build things.
Developer Platform

gitStream Docs Platform

LinearB — Zero to Full Developer Portal
WhatThe complete documentation system for gitStream, LinearB's workflow automation product.
BuiltQuickstart guides, automation library, integration docs, plugin development guides, interactive playground, and full API reference. Zero-touch developer onboarding.
MkDocsAPI referenceAutomation librarySelf-serve
Developers could activate without a sales call. That is the point.
AI + Automation

Boat Daily Check

Victron Monitoring Agent
WhatAn AI-assisted monitoring agent that checks my boats overnight and sends a daily status report.
BuiltPython agent querying the Victron VRM API on a cron schedule. Reverse-engineered an undocumented API, published the reference docs, and open-sourced the project.
PythonVictron VRM APICron automationOpen source
Applied AI that runs without intervention. A real system solving a real problem.
IP + Brand System

Mia Kingtide

Books, Games, Audiobooks, Ocean Education
WhatAn original IP built from zero across books, interactive games, audiobooks, and a content ecosystem.
Built4 books published, 1,300+ copies sold, audiobooks on Spotify and INaudio, OceanMatch browser game, TikTok and YouTube audience built around ocean storytelling.
4 published booksBrowser gameAudiobooksAudience building
Content systems. Brand building. Creative execution at scale.
Browser Game

OceanMatch

Interactive Ocean Education Game
WhatA browser-based matching game built around the Mia Kingtide ocean conservation universe.
BuiltAccessible interactive experience connecting ocean species, characters, and educational content. Part of a cross-format IP strategy designed to extend reach beyond books.
Browser gameOcean educationInteractiveIP extension
Product thinking applied to content. Accessible design. IP that works across formats.
Media Platform

Pitter Patter Diving

Ocean Media Brand + Tourism + Commerce
WhatA full media and commerce brand built around ocean adventures on the Monterey Peninsula.
BuiltBlog, YouTube, TikTok channel grown to 10K followers in a single summer, dive tourism business, and an AI agent monitoring the boats. Built from zero audience.
10K TikTokBlog + YouTubeTourism businessAI monitoring
Audience building from scratch. Content-market fit found and validated in the wild.
When To Bring Me In

You have a complex system. Someone needs to make it usable.

These are the moments I do my best work.

Launching a developer platform

You have infrastructure, APIs, or tooling that developers need to adopt. You need the portal, docs, onboarding system, and go-to-market strategy that make it actually happen.

Adoption is broken

Developers sign up but do not activate. The docs are incomplete, the onboarding is confusing, and the support queue is full of questions that should never have been asked.

Building AI-powered workflows

You need AI woven into content production, developer tooling, or operational systems. Not a ChatGPT wrapper. Actual automation that ships and runs without babysitting.

Complex product, unclear story

Your product does something powerful but the positioning is muddy, the messaging is too technical, and no one outside engineering can explain what it actually does.

Shipping a major launch

New product, new feature, new category. You need the full launch stack: narrative, release content, developer comms, video, and coordinated go-to-market execution.

Building something from scratch

No program, no community, no documentation. You need someone who has done it before and can move fast. Nutanix developer portal, gitStream docs, Hazelcast program: all started at zero.

DevRelCon Speaker
London + SF
SlashData Author
Developer Marketing Guide
1,300+ Books Sold
Mia Kingtide Series
10K TikTok
Built in One Summer
49+ Open Source Repos
Nutanix GitHub Org
246K Video Views
Sencha Product Video
Writing, Talks & Media

Saying things worth reading.

Technical articles, conference talks, published books, and product launch videos. Content that actually helps developers, not content for the sake of it.

The Person Behind the Work

Ocean first. Builder always.

I live on the Monterey Peninsula, one of the most biologically rich coastlines on Earth. The ocean shapes how I think: systems, patience, depth, and the discipline to go back again even when conditions are rough.

Outside of work I dive, sail, and write. I built Pitter Patter Diving as a media and tourism business, and the Mia Kingtide series as a proof of concept that great storytelling can carry a conservation message without being preachy about it.

I also race at the Monterey Peninsula Yacht Club, manage a fleet of two boats, and built the race management system because the existing tools were not good enough.

Monterey Bay
Diving the coldest, richest coast on Earth
4 Books Published
Mia Kingtide Ocean Adventures Series
MPYC Racing
Monterey Peninsula Yacht Club
AI Builder
Agents, automation, and practical systems
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Let's build something
worth using.

Whether you need a developer program built from zero, a platform launch strategy, a documentation system, or applied AI workflows that actually ship, reach out.