- Building the developer community at Gradium, which builds voice AI models for text-to-speech and speech-to-text
- Previously Head of Community at Devfolio
- Previously Program Manager at GitHub, managing your friendly neighbourhood GitHub Campus Experts Program 🚩, and an MLH Coach
- MLH Top 50 🌟
- 🌱 Exploring: agents, MCP, and voice AI
- 💬 Ask me about Developer Communities, DevRel, Agents & MCP, and Voice AI
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Personal Website: This very portfolio, with a bento-style layout and live Spotify + gaming status.
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- Blog: Migrating a Real MCP Server to the 2026-07-28 Spec
- Blog: Agents for Community Managers: Designing with AGENTS.md, goose, and MCP
- All posts on ashwinexe.com/blog
- Talk topics: Building Developer Communities, DevRel in the Modern Era, Hackathons — from Participant to Organizer. Booking at ashwinexe.com/talks
- Past talk: Students Hacking into CNCF, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022, Detroit
- Past talk: How Rejections Will Make you a Better Community Leader, Open Source Summit North America 2022, Austin
- AAIF Ambassador: monthly contributions on agents and MCP
- Co-founded Hackerabad: built an 800+ member global open source student community from the ground up
- Founding organizer: CodeDay Hyderabad, Telangana's largest in-person high school hackathon
- Helped build WeMakeDevs (formerly Community Classroom), a 50,000-member community of students across the globe
- Supported APAC hackathons as an MLH Coach
- Twilio Searchlight Honoree: Featured in Business Insider for creating a better future for developers via building communities, supporting hackers, and making new leaders in the tech community.
- MLH Top 50 candidate: Selected among Major League Hacking's Top 50 Hackers of 2021 out of a hackathon community of 150,000+ hackers worldwide.
- 12x Hackathon Winner: Won over 12 global hackathons in 2021-2022.
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