Sofia Reyes

Developer Advocate Lead, APAC

Halcyon Cloud, a serverless platform for web teams

Frontend engineer turned developer advocate. Teaching thousands of developers to ship on the web.

Manila, Philippines

About

Sofia leads developer advocacy across Asia Pacific for Halcyon Cloud. She writes the tutorials, records the videos and runs the workshops that get developers from sign-up to their first deploy.

She spent five years as a frontend engineer before moving into advocacy, and still ships sample apps every week. On weekends she organises hack nights for new developers in Manila.

Highlights

50K

developers in the community she built across APAC

120+

talks and workshops delivered

years building for the web

Organiser, Manila hack nights

Monthly build sessions for developers shipping their first project

Experience

2023 – now

Developer Advocate Lead, APACHalcyon Cloud, Manila
2020 – 2023

Developer AdvocateHalcyon Cloud, Singapore
2017 – 2020

Senior Frontend EngineerJeepney Labs, Manila

2015 – 2017

Web DeveloperPintura Digital, Manila

Works on

Developer Relations
Technical Writing
Public Speaking
JavaScript
React
Serverless
Community Building
Web Performance

Education

2011 – 2015

University of the Philippines DilimanBS, Computer Science