Publications

Research, articles, and video content on Developer Experience.

ORCID: 0009-0001-6456-5137

Academic Papers

Peer-reviewed

2026

The Bottom-Up Approach to Developer Experience: Empowering Engineers to Drive Change

The American Journal of Engineering and Technology - Vol 8, Issue 01, pp. 44–52

Multi-level friction model integrating DevEx, Cognitive Load Theory, and Socio-Technical Congruence. Introduces friction logs and the DX-Champion role as diagnostic tools.

DOI
Forthcoming

2026

SPARK for DevEx: A Minimal Bottom-Up Method to Turn Developer Pain into Business Value

In preparation - ETA April 2026

A 5-stage iterative cycle: Systematize Pain → Propose & Prioritize → Act & Automate → Report & Radiate → Kindle & Scale. Connects bottom-up DX improvements to DORA/SPACE metrics.

Industry Articles

The New Stack
#1 Trending in Software Development

2025

Why 9 out of 10 developers don't know what Developer Experience is

Featured in WeAreDevelopers DevDigest (200K+ subscribers). Data-backed analysis of why developers stay silent about friction and how Bottom-Up DevEx changes that.

Video - @dx_level_up

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