I’m Ana Hevesi.

As a kid wandering around Queens, New York, I carried a strange, obsessive conviction:

The internet was networked human brains and the results would be either extremely cool, or extremely weird.

Armed with this knowledge, I fell into an equally strange career: acting as ambassador between technical companies and their most impassioned customers. I made my bones at places like:

  • 3D printing pioneer Shapeways
  • Nodejitsu, the first Node.js hosting platform
  • Stack Overflow, the most consequential community in developer tools history

Through it all, the same lesson kept repeating: it’s possible to make people really care about your tools—and it’s just as possible to demolish their passion if you don’t understand their goals.

Today I work with developer tools teams who want to make their products trusted, vital and beloved.

After a life in New York City, I now live in the woods with my partner, my cat and far more deer than I ever expected to see out the window.

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Testimonials

Ana was my team’s secret weapon at Stack Overflow. She has a unique ability to decipher social patterns in technical contexts, and used that to help us serve developers of different generations and cultures just as we were reaching massive scale. You can count on her to synthesize user needs into actionable changes for a project of any size.

- Abby T. Miller, former Director of Technology Operations, Stack Overflow

Ana Hevesi knows developer communities at scale with a breadth and depth of understanding that only comes with building them. If you’ve written software over the past 15 years, you’ve benefited from Ana’s insight, consideration and execution at a level of excellence. Ana is the lodestone for every developer community she serves.

- Rob Spectre, former VP Developer Network, Twilio