Your friend at OpenAI

I’m excited to be joining OpenAI’s Developer Experience team to help grow and support the developer community.

There has been a common thread throughout my career:

I love helping people become builders.

Back in 2016, that looked like delivering coding courses for women at the university I studied at. It was not only about teaching them how to code their first websites, but showing them what careers could be possible and how the ideas in their heads could become real with what they learned.

When I moved into community and developer relations at Gitpod, it was the same feeling in a different form: helping developers code from anywhere, regardless of the machine in front of them. I loved being part of that mission, especially when it helped people like Asif find their way into tech.

More recently at Vercel, it meant helping our community get their projects into production as quickly and simply as possible.

OpenAI aligns with that personal mission I have cared about for years.

Why OpenAI?

AI is changing how people build, learn, and imagine. I know that can feel scary. Big change often does. There are still many unknowns in this new world.

I have been paying close attention to where I can contribute meaningfully, and will continue to.

Some of you may remember that I was a big skeptic for a while!

As I slowly embraced the shift, explored the tools, and adjusted how I work, I found optimism in this new world. Some may now call me AI-pilled. My husband would probably say I need to touch grass more and stop starting new Codex threads. 😶‍🌫️

Tweet from Pauline P. Narvas about building community in the world of AI

I want to be as close to this shift as possible. And even if, at the very least, I can help the bubble of community who interact with me feel more invited into it, understand it better, and feel less afraid of the pace of change, that feels like meaningful work.

OpenAI feels like the best place to do this work.

Three goals

I start every job with three main goals.

First, I want to onboard well. I want to understand the people, the products, the systems, the community, and the standards of the team I’m joining.

Tweet from Pauline P. Narvas about onboarding

Second, I want to build with the tools myself. I’ve already done a lot of this in the last couple of months with Codex, but I’m eager to do more and feel the developer experience from the inside. The best community and DX work I’ve done has always come from being close to the product and close to the people using it.

Tweet from Pauline P. Narvas about building with AI tools

Third, I want to ship one thing that would improve our community. The thing that, if improved, would help more developers feel confident, supported, and excited to build with OpenAI.

Help me, help you. Tell me on X! 🫶

Use AI for speed and scale, but build with heart.

— Is there space for AI in Communities?

Thank you for your support!

Thank you to Romain, Dominik, and Joe for your trust. I can’t wait to be a student again, start from day zero, and learn from all of you. Shoutout also to my mentor Michael for helping me take this leap. 💜

And of course, all of you for reading this.

I see you and appreciate the support across all my eras and beyond!

Tweet from Pauline P. Narvas about AI and work