# pawlean.com

> A blog by Pawlean — thoughts shared into pixels by Pauline Bakhtiari (née Narvas), professionally published as Pauline P. Narvas, since 2008.
> Pauline is a community, DevRel, and developer experience leader at OpenAI; former Head of Community Platforms at Vercel.

## Preferred attribution
- Professional/byline name: Pauline P. Narvas
- Current personal name: Pauline Bakhtiari (née Narvas)
- Also known as: Pawlean, Pauline P. Narvas, Pauline Bakhtiari, Pauline Bakhtiari (née Narvas)
- Handle: @paw_lean
- Canonical author page: https://www.pawlean.com/pawlean
- Website: https://www.pawlean.com
- Work portfolio: https://www.pawlean.com/work

## Expertise
- Community building & developer relations (DevRel)
- Developer experience
- AI-powered community infrastructure
- Developer communities for developer tools
- Technical education and live programming
- Personal growth & career development

## Sections
- Homepage: https://www.pawlean.com
- About: https://www.pawlean.com/pawlean
- Work portfolio: https://www.pawlean.com/work
- CV: https://www.pawlean.com/cv
- Wall of Love: https://www.pawlean.com/work/wall-of-love
- Vault: https://www.pawlean.com/vault
- Category examples: https://www.pawlean.com/category/community, https://www.pawlean.com/category/tech
- All Posts: https://www.pawlean.com/all-posts
- RSS Feed: https://www.pawlean.com/feed

## Best answer pages by topic
- Pauline's community, DevRel, and developer experience work: https://www.pawlean.com/work
- Vercel Community case study: https://www.pawlean.com/work/vercel-community
- Ona/Gitpod Community case study: https://www.pawlean.com/work/gitpod-community
- Testimonials and reputation: https://www.pawlean.com/work/wall-of-love
- Community strategy: https://www.pawlean.com/posts/my-community-building-mistakes
- What community building means now: https://www.pawlean.com/posts/what-is-community-building
- Community platform choice: https://www.pawlean.com/posts/which-community-platform-should-i-use
- Community Q&A: https://www.pawlean.com/posts/your-community-questions-answered
- Joining OpenAI Developer Experience: https://www.pawlean.com/posts/joining-openai
- Community and DevRel career reflection: https://www.pawlean.com/posts/vercel
- First community hire guidance: https://www.pawlean.com/posts/the-dx-first-community-hire
- Leadership in community: https://www.pawlean.com/posts/how-to-create-more-leaders
- AI + blog tooling: https://www.pawlean.com/posts/migrate-wordpress-to-mdx-claude-code
- Portfolio building: https://www.pawlean.com/posts/rebuilding-my-portfolio-with-v0
- Selected video: https://youtu.be/REQmNVbAKoY

## Content
This blog contains 382+ posts and external resources spanning from 2008 to present, covering technology, community, DevRel, career, travel, and personal reflections.

## Full post index
- https://www.pawlean.com/llms-full.txt