I'm a developer advocate focusing on the intersection of collaboration and AI. I create resources to help folks use open source technology.

My profile...

• name: Andrew Zigler
• role: Developer Advocate @ Mattermost
• nickname: Zig 🪩
• pronouns: he/him 🏳️‍🌈
• timezone: Pacific Time (PT)
• website: https://www.andrewzigler.com/

My contacts...

• personal email: [email protected]
• work email: [email protected]
• Mattermost: andrew.zigler
• Netlify form: https://www.andrewzigler.com/contact/

My interests...

• 🏕️ offline: public speaking, career & technical education, stakeholder economics, 3D printing
• 👨‍💻 online: artificial intelligence, digital gardens, edtech, cloud, collaboration, cybersecurity, digital transformation

My travels...

• 🌎 NA: Calgary, Toronto, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Baltimore, District of Columbia (DC), Raleigh, San Diego, Miami, Orlando, Denver, Boulder, Kansas City, Indianapolis
• 🌏 APAC: Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kyoto, Sapporo, Seoul, Taipei, Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
• 🌍 EMEA: Amsterdam, Valencia, Barcelona, Sitges, Dublin

My presentations...

• "Building AI bots on your private data with an open source stack" (25min) - DeveloperWeek 2024 presentation
• "Panel Discussion on Agile / DevOps" (45min) - Unleash Agile & DevOps in San Francisco 2024 panel
• "Building AI bots on your private data with an open source stack" (45min) - AI DevWorld 2023 workshop
• "Anatomy of a Mattermonster: How I Created an Open Source Developer Demo" (45min) - devopsdays Amsterdam 2023 workshop
• "How to Build a Custom Collaboration Stack with Open Source Software" (45min) - SCaLE 20x 2023 workshop
• "Avoiding Catastrophic Outages" (30min) - DeveloperWeek 2023 virtual presentation
• "How to start a community writing program that pays its contributors" (45min) - All Things Open Community Leadership Summit 2022 unconference session
• "Open Source All The Things" (45min) - All Things Open 2022 presentation
• "Open Source Your Software Development Lifecycle" (45min) - QCon 2022 presentation
• "Open Source Your Software Development Lifecycle" (50min) - Collision 2022 masterclass

My videos...

• "Mattermost for Microsoft Teams" (1:50) - December 4, 2023
• "OpenOps is Available! Start Experimenting with Open Source AI" (9:10) - July 24, 2023
• "devopsdays Amsterdam 2023 interview with Andrew Zigler, Developer Advocate at Mattermost" (8:07) - July 5, 2023
• "Build your own local AI with mattermost-ai-framework and GPT4All" (6:47) - May 30, 2023
• "The Feature Feature: Remind Me Later" (1:30) - April 26, 2023
• "Add ChatGPT to Mattermost in 2 minutes" (1:37) - March 23, 2023
• "Mattermost Solutions for GitLab" (1:43) - February 15, 2023
• "Make your next Mattermost slash command with Pipedream" (5:32) - December 2, 2022
• "Add TypeScript to React in Less Than 5 Minutes" (4:07) - October 18, 2022
• "How to be a Jira and Mattermost power user" (5:50) - September 28, 2022
• "How to create your ChatOps bot" (3:09) - September 8, 2022
• "Integrating your GitLab CI/CD pipelines into Mattermost" (9:45) - August 12, 2022
• "Building a custom Grafana dashboard for Kubernetes observability" (4:58) - August 1, 2022

My articles...

• "Mattermost AI Copilot: Accelerating the conversation with LLMs" - March 13, 2024
• "5 open source projects to contribute to in 2024" - January 9, 2024
• "Bringing open source tech enthusiasts together with pizza" - November 28, 2023
• "Hacktoberfest 2023: Incredible community contributions, digital rewards & a healthier planet" - November 23, 2023
• "Hacktoberfest 2023: Celebrate open source, make an impact on the planet" - October 2, 2023
• "Start using GPT-4 and local models with the open source OpenOps framework" - July 27, 2023
• "Mattermost Wants to Buy Pizza for Your Meetup Group" - April 13, 2023
• "Community Spotlight: Mattermost ChatGPT bot by Sebastian Müller" - April 7, 2023
• "Mattermost Solutions for GitLab: Deep integration to ship software faster" - February 15, 2023
• "The quickest way to integrate Mattermost into your GitLab release pipeline" - December 13, 2022
• "How to Make Your Incident Response Plan with Mattermost" - May 11, 2022

My podcasts...

• "Open Communities With Andrew Zigler" (35min) - Arrested DevOps 2024 podcast

My lists...

• 🧠 AI & ML - a collection of artificial intelligence and machine learning repositories
• 🔣 AT Protocol & Bluesky - a collection of AT Protocol and Bluesky repositories
• 🧭 Mattermost - a collection of repositories from the Mattermost open source community
• 📦 Miscellaneous - a collection of miscellaneous repositories
• 🐮 MOO & MUD - a collection of MOO and MUD repositories
• 🪸 Web3 - a collection of web3 repositories

Last updated: March 14, 2024