Jury Panel 2025

Meet the members of the Jury Panel in 2025

Anthony Fabbricino, Bob Watson, PhD, Devendar Kasuvojula, Marco Spinello, Mike Jang, Patricia Rogers, Prince Valluri, Renishya Jayan, Robert Delwood, Ryan Clifford

We're announcing panel members progressively, with the full panel to be revealed by the end of August.

Anthony Fabbricino

Anthony has had extensive experience designing and implementing APIs and Tools including developer portals in areas such as financial services, document automation and mobile network services. He has held roles in both Marketing and Product Management that focused on business and customer value. Anthony is presently retired, but remains an avid follower of API trends and innovations.

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Bob Watson, PhD

Bob Watson is a Senior Technical Writer and API Documentation Expert with experience at Google, AWS, Microsoft, and other technology companies. His combination of software engineering background and PhD research in Human Centered Design and Engineering has informed documentation strategies across technical environments, from embedded systems to cloud platforms.

Currently teaching API Documentation at the University of Washington while researching AI integration in technical writing workflows, Bob specializes in developer documentation and human-AI collaboration in content creation. As a published researcher on API usability and speaker at Write the Docs conferences, he brings both industry experience and academic perspective to technical communication challenges.

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Devendar Kasuvojula

Devendar Kasuvojula is an API Product Manager at Thomson Reuters, where he guides the product vision and strategy for the company's developer ecosystem. His role uniquely spans both the internal developer portal, designed to empower thousands of Thomson Reuters engineers, and the external portal, which serves a global community of customers and partners. Passionate about building vibrant developer communities, he has a proven track record of launching products that accelerate innovation. This work is informed by his entrepreneurial background as a two-time startup founder, giving him a unique perspective on building impactful solutions from the ground up.

Beyond the world of APIs, Devendar is a proud dad to a toddler boy and an avid stargazer, a passion that reflects his curiosity for exploring vast, interconnected systems—whether in the cloud or in the cosmos.

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Marco Spinello

Marco is a Senior Technical Writer at Booking.com, where he makes sure that digital accessibility is easy to implement (and debug) for designers and developers.
As an advocate of good docs, he helps teams organize and run docathons, as well as teach engineers and product managers how to produce and maintain documentation without hating the universe.

He vibe codes beautiful code that hardly ever works.

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Mike Jang

Mike is a Principal Technical Writer at NGINX (F5). He creates clear and engaging documentation for developers and sysadmins. He has written authoritative content in Linux, security, and identity management. He is also a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE v5). At a couple of conferences, he spoke about "Minimum Viable API Documentation."

Mike has a diverse array of experiences. He built a docs-as-code documentation practice from scratch, demonstrated the use of APIs for users.

His mission is to share his passion for new software and to help users achieve their goals with the help of his content.

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Patricia Rogers

Patricia serves as the API Technical Product Owner for Trimble's SketchUp 3D Warehouse, the world's largest repository of pre-made 3D models. She directs the API roadmap to enhance the platform for its global user base of architects, landscape and interior designers, builders and homeowners, focusing on pioneering capabilities such as generative AI 3D models, photorealistic materials, and AI enhanced search. Previously, Patricia managed a comprehensive developer portal and a library of financial data APIs for a global developer community.

This is Patricia's second year participating in the DevPortal Awards.

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Prince Valluri

Prince is a Principal Staff Engineer at LinkedIn, specializing in Developer Productivity for over 10 years. With a focus on building and scaling internal platforms that empower thousands of engineers to move faster and more confidently, he has architected AI-driven software engineering workflows, migrated LinkedIn’s source control to GitHub, and refined CI/CD pipelines and developer portals that blend reliability with an intuitive user experience.

Beyond software engineering, Prince is a licensed private pilot in the Bay Area and an avid automotive enthusiast, passions that reflect his fascination with precision, performance, and situational awareness.

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Renishya Jayan

Renishya brings 12+ years of Technical Writing experience, specializing in simplifying complex technical topics into easily digestible content. Passionate about bridging the gap between technology and users, she ensures effective communication through a human-centric approach. Throughout her career, she has contributed to various aspects of technical writing, including end-user and developer documentation, content strategy, release communication, and UX writing.
As a Senior Technical Writer at Staffbase, Renishya focuses on creating comprehensive developer documentation and improving API specifications, providing developers with clear and concise resources to achieve their goals.

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Robert Delwood

Robert is a programmer, writer, and programmer-writer.
He has written and designed API documentation extensively for such companies as Microsoft, Walmart, and NASA. With a developer background, he focuses on the design of API documents to make them more detailed, convenient to copy and paste from, accessible to all developer grades and ultimately just easier to use.

Robert frequently presents at industry conferences, such as Write The Docs and individual chapters, encouraging others to enter this specialty and to help overcome the almost unique writing challenges.

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Ryan Clifford

Ryan is Director of Product - Embedded Agreements at PandaDoc, leading the product teams for APIs, Integrations, ESign and Notary. He has extensive experience working on award winning developer platforms and APIs within financial services, fintech and SaaS companies.

He is a strong believer in treating APIs as products so loves designing APIs and building the end-to-end developer experience. Energised by understanding how businesses can leverage APIs and platform thinking to augment current business models and implement new ones.

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