Hi, I'm Saurav! I make developer communities happen.
Six years of DevRel, four continents, and one simple belief: developers do their best work when they feel at home. I build the places - and the programs - where that happens.
Community is my love language.
I got into this the honest way - organizing campus events nobody asked me to organize. That turned into growing Amplication's open-source community past 40,000 developers, which turned into my dream job at Apify, the web scraping and automation platform.
These days I look after the community around Crawlee and Apify's Actor ecosystem - which means everything from running paid writing programs and Discord office hours to organizing hackathons in Lagos and San Francisco, and helping developers actually get paid for the things they build.
And yes - a lot of PyCons. A concerning number of PyCons. 🐍
A few true things about me ↓
- 🛫 My passport has better attendance than I do
- 🎙️ I've emceed a hackathon and judged 500+ AI agent projects - in the same week
- 📝 My content reaches ~6M developers a month
- 🧡 Once took my mom to her dream destination - my favorite trip of all of them
The nerdy stats.
How I got here.
Apify · Senior Developer Community Manager 🚀
Building the community around Crawlee and the Actor marketplace - creator programs, Trust & Safety, global events, and lots of MCP and AI-agent adventures.
Amplication · Community Manager 🌱
Grew an open-source community past 40,000 developers. Ran Octernships and Hacktoberfest campaigns that set new engagement records.
BTech in computer engineering 🎓
Campus community lead and TensorFlow mentor. Basically doing DevRel before I knew it had a name.
Places I've brought the energy.
Creators Day Africa
Organizing Apify's creator event with developers from across Africa.
Nairobi · Sep 2026 ✨She Code Africa Summit
Apify's first-ever hackathon in Nigeria, partnered with She Code Africa.
Lagos · Sep 2026 ✨PyCon Indonesia
Speaker + booth + community dinners on the side. The full experience.
Jakarta · 2026All Things Agent Hackathon
Co-organizer and emcee at AWS Builder Loft. Mic in one hand, schedule in the other.
San Francisco · 2026EuroPython
"Build, Deploy & Monetize AI Agents" - 140+ people showed up for the first slot of the morning. Bless them.
PragueApify's biggest Asia workshop
200+ builders in one room, and 500+ agentic AI projects judged the same week.
Asia · 2026…plus PyCon Italy, PyCon Ireland, and 20-something more Py-things → Sessionize has receipts
Not just showing up - building things.
Apify Community Writing Program
Developers earn up to $500 per article published on the Apify & Crawlee blogs. The first run brought in ~100 community articles.
Creators Day
Apify's in-person events for the developers who build on the platform - learn, ship, and meet the team behind the docs.
Hackathons & partnerships
From All Things Agent in San Francisco to Apify's first hackathon in Nigeria with She Code Africa.
Apify & Crawlee Discord
The community's living room - office hours, launches, support, and the occasional meme review.
Let's make something happen!
Conference, community, hackathon, or just want to talk web scraping, open source, and AI agents over (virtual) chai - my inbox is open.