Tamao Nakahara joins Helix as advisor

GitOps Pioneer and Community Superstar Amplifies Helix.ml's Developer Experience

We are excited to announce that Tamao Nakahara has joined Helix.ml as an advisor. Tamao brings leadership and a range of experiences that include Partner and Alliances BD and Marketing, Open Source, Developer Experience, Devrel, and most recently startup COO. Tamao has lived and breathed open source at VMware, Pivotal, New Relic, and Weaveworks from Java and Spring communities, being the first Community Manager for Cloud Foundry, and most recently has been a community maintainer for the graduated FluxCD project in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

As VP of Developer Experience at Weaveworks, Tamao led a team that helped build the FluxCD project, its ecosystem extensions and integrations, and its various areas of enablement and support. And side note, we at Helix.ml use FluxCD and Kubernetes for best-in-class GitOps for LLM Apps!

Tamao also has decades of experience bringing people together as a community through events, meetups, and online gatherings. Not only did Tamao co-found DevRelCon.com that had its first event in Brooklyn this year, most recently we enjoyed a fantastic Open and on-prem LLMs meetup in SF on September 12 that reflected this experience.

At Helix.ml, Tamao is helping to build strategic partnerships, open source alliances, and has kicked off our online workshops that cover installing your own private chatGPT and will have future topics on CI/CD, Kubernetes infrastructure and LLMs, Fine-tuning and more.

On a personal level, I worked closely with Tamao at Weaveworks and we couldn’t be more excited to welcome her to the Helix team! With her deep open source ecosystem connections and experience building community and bringing developers together, Tamao’s help building out our programme of educational content will bring great value to you – our existing community, and help to grow and strengthen it so we can all benefit.

Join our workshops, and come and say hi on Discord!