Wall of Love

Pauline has been an integral part of our team for over three years, and her decision to join Gitpod has proven to be a game-changer. Not only is she a wonderful person to work with, but she has also played a pivotal role in driving Gitpod's success. Pauline's leadership in building and nurturing the Gitpod community has been exceptional, creating an inclusive space where individuals can connect, collaborate, and share their passions. Her vibrant energy and enthusiasm are infectious, whether it's on screen or in person and she has a natural talent for bringing people together. I have had the privilege of collaborating directly with Pauline on numerous projects, including the establishment of a developer experience community and the coordination of CDE Universe in SF. Her structured approach, unwavering reliability, hands-on involvement, and readiness to support the team have consistently impressed me. Working alongside her has been an immensely enjoyable and enriching experience. Without hesitation, I would recommend Pauline to any organization seeking a dedicated, talented, and all-around exceptional team member. It would be an absolute pleasure to have the opportunity to collaborate with her again in the future.

I was very impressed when Gitpod succeeded in hiring Pauline as a developer advocate, because she was already quite a celebrity back then. Ever since, she's been on a parabolic growth trajectory, delivering A+ work on every task or challenge she is presented with, sometimes in spite of unfavourable odds or impossible deadlines -- you can count on Pauline to somehow still make it work. She also takes everyone along for the ride: being the public face of our start-up, I was amazed to see both our company and a very vibrant community grow around her. She is super reliable, and somehow, she always seems happy to take on more work and more responsibilities, becoming for example an awesome manager, marketer, technical content creator, or even the Head of Community for Gitpod. She can do it all and incredibly well. On a personal level, I deeply appreciated having Pauline as a colleague, as her friendliness, humour, creativity, persistence, professionalism, and incredibly high energy were all very inspiring and uplifting. If you ever have a chance at hiring Pauline -- go for it! She's one of the very best out there.

It has been such a joy to work with Pauline. She brings light to every room she entered. Her ability to bring a brand to life through her warmth and ability to build relationships is pure gold and anyone that gets to work with her should consider themselves lucky. The amount of personal growth I've seen in her the past few years makes me certain that she will continue to adapt wherever she works and will bring immense ROI when it comes to developing community and relationships.

I was fortunate to have her as my manager in my first role at a remote company, despite having no prior work experience as an intern. She was kind-hearted and helped me improve my skills, inspiring me and giving me the freedom to explore and take action without being overly authoritative. Her support greatly boosted my confidence and directly influenced my professional growth. She has been a mentor, a cheerleader, and most importantly, a caring person. Pauline single-handedly built a vibrant community around Gitpod from scratch. I personally witnessed her energetic approach, leading numerous initiatives that generated excitement and rapidly expanded the community. These initiatives included weekly office hours, podcasts, online and in-person events, meetups, conferences, creating resources such as technical YouTube tutorials and quickstart templates for the community to adopt and learn from. She executed these initiatives with enthusiasm and great success. I believe her energy will have a positive influence on any team.

I greatly enjoyed working with Pauline on the Community Team at Gitpod. Her enthusiasm for building a strong, active community was a major reason I joined. Pauline was an incredibly driven and caring manager, and though it was her first time managing, her guidance was invaluable. She helped us achieve our team goals and greatly aided my personal development. Any organisation would be lucky to have Pauline, and I fully recommend her for her excellent work and genuine care for her team and the community. Pauline was always approachable and ready to help. It was clear she cared deeply about our Community team, often proudly sharing our achievements. Her support made a real difference, both to the team and to me personally.

It is my pleasure to strongly recommend Pauline as as someone I have worked with who uniquely stands out. During the time we worked together, Pauline displayed a great talent in picking up new technologies and her understanding of cloud computing grew at an impressive rate. It was not just her technical skills that impressed me, however. Pauline was a joy to work with because of her amazingly positive attitude and desire to make a difference.

Pauline is one of the best people in DevRel space I can think of. I found her online before she got famous and I've been following her career progress ever since. A talented, hard working fantastic person. If I were running a tech company, I would offer her position immediately.

I met Pauline P. Narvas and she has an exceptionally inspiring DevRel mindset. See how she advocates for others even in this post. That's how she truly is. Friends, if you have an open DevRel position, you can only win in hiring Pauline. A very rare opportunity. Now go, go, go!

Pauline is an exceptional individual with an extremely valuable skillset that is hard to find. Her superpowers: 1. Community-building: Pauline spearheaded community efforts at Gitpod. She built 100s of meaningful 1:1 relationships. Additionally, she built a scalable support system on which our community grew to 5k+ at the time we stopped working together. Pauline has the rare ability to create an environment that brings the best out of people (online and offline). She is an energy giver. 2. Authentic communication: Pauline is a true internet native who understands authentic, vulnerable, and captivating communication across multiple channels. She's created an arsenal of excellent blog posts, high-quality videos, and viral social media posts. This has earned her a loyal base of 10k+ followers. 3. Project work in teams: Pauline is reliable and well-organized project lead. We worked on a number of big conferences together (including two conferences we created and hosted: DevX Conf, a virtual conference, and CDE Universe). I appreciated Pauline's written communication, her candor, her level of care, and her ability to execute against a deadline. The latter is a rare skill in DevRel. Above all, Pauline works hard and she truly cares. I loved working with Pauline, I learned a ton from her, and will recommend her 10 out of 10 times.

Pauline was a key reason I joined Gitpod. The energy and dedication she poured into the community there really showcased the company's culture and drew me in. Over the years, Pauline has seamlessly transitioned between roles, each time leaving a profound impact. As the head of community and previously as a community engineer, she was instrumental in knitting the community together at Gitpod. This past year, stepping into the role of developer advocate, Pauline organized countless events that were pivotal in bringing people together, sparking essential discussions on developer experiences and productivity enhancements. Her passion is undeniable—she always brings her A-game and I'm always raving about the incredible impact she's had on Gitpod's growth and adoption. Getting to know her personally has been equally rewarding. Pauline's presence is magnetic; she's incredibly genuine and deeply cares about the people around her. I'm eagerly cheering for her from the sidelines for all the amazing things that I know she is going to accomplish.

I loved working with Pauline. She has an infectious energy which is contagious and is brilliant at distilling complex ideas in a way that makes them accessible. We worked together to deliver community office hours and built a good relationship with the community on both sync and async channels. It was great bouncing ideas off Pauline as she has a great knack for understanding the point being made and articulating it well. This was particularly useful when submitting conference talks - we worked together on 4 conference submissions, all of which were selected by the organisers to be delivered. This was a huge achievement and one that I couldn't have done without Pauline's help.

As someone new to the OSS world, it's a challenging path to get into a community let alone start making valuable contributions, i.e. there's usually a huge gap between an organisation and the community. But with Pauline in your team, I suppose anyone would be able to do so...so very openly, she's really supportive of one's ideas and is great at especially validating ideas and always easy to approach, being an essential bridge between your organisation and the community. Always excited, always ready to connect and help, and always *loud* about the community to the world...