Engineering-first Developer Relations

Engineer who explains. Teacher who ships.

I'm a life-long coder with enterprise scars and a startup mentality. I'm a DevRel Engineer who supports and stands up for devs in these scary and uncertain times (we've got a strong union). And I bring studio savvy and a pile of expensive recording equipment to my videos and essays.

Creator of Full Stack Drip. Open-source reference apps like Morning Agents. Developer education built in public.

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Lee Flannery

About

Lee Flannery

Times have changed. AI agents choose products now, and developers move quicker than ever.

I live in that startup mode too. But the products we build still have to get into the enterprise, and I have spent my career inside those real, messy environments. I understand implementation woes: passing the security audit, convincing 15 stakeholders, surviving procurement friction without the project quietly dying on the way. I have led teams through all of it to tremendous growth.

Now I help products get into those environments and thrive, by working with and advocating for the engineers inside them. I know what makes them happy because I came out of the same trenches they are in.

DevRel · DX · Developer GTM · Technical education

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Video

The build

Love Taps, filmed start to finish: the decisions, the tradeoffs, and the working result.

The verdict

The judges on that build, live: top 5 of 400, with a shout out to the channel.

Selected work

Built and shipped in public

I work deep in code with LLMs: agent harnesses, MCP servers, evals, and whatever shipped since Monday. Every week brings something new, and the only way to keep up is to build with it.

mcp server · read-only

imap-mcp

Try pointing something like Claude CoWork at more than one Gmail account. You can't. I built this MCP server so you can: every IMAP account at once, read-only, with no credentials on disk. It cannot send, delete, or flag, and it never marks a message read.

  • Python
  • MCP
  • IMAP
  • test harness
open source · python + ts

Morning Agents

Open-source multi-agent briefing system. A Python orchestrator spawns TypeScript MCP servers over stdio, with Pydantic contracts holding the language boundary. It ships with an evals suite and an LLM judge, so a change has to prove it improved the output.

  • MCP
  • Pydantic
  • stdio
  • Evals
  • LLM judge
youtube + writing

Full Stack Drip

The content engine: essays and code-first videos that take developers from idea to working prototype, in public.

  • Essays
  • Code-first video
  • Open source
top 5 of 400

Love Taps and Contra

An app shipped end to end, with the build filmed start to finish. The video walkthroughs of the decisions and the tradeoffs are the real artifact here. It took an honorable mention in the Contra and Wispr Flow challenge, top 5 of 400 builds.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Video walkthrough
Coursera player showing Lee Flannery credited as Mobile App Developer in the IBM Skills Network lesson Expert Viewpoints: Evolution of Mobile Apps
delightful teacher

IBM licensed my teaching into a Coursera course

A segment I recorded for a client was picked up by IBM Skills Network for Introduction to Mobile App Development. I'm the expert on camera in Expert Viewpoints: Evolution of Mobile Apps, answering what actually drives growth in the mobile app industry.

Platform
Coursera
Publisher
IBM Skills Network
Credited as
Mobile App Developer
top 5 of 400

This video and code won awards

“This was an incredible submission. Really put a lot of time and effort into this. Super creative build. He’s doing some amazing work and videos on his YouTube as well. Big shout out.”
Contra x Wispr Flow Challenge judges

They were judging Love Taps: an app built end to end with the whole thing filmed, against 400 other submissions.

Next step

Four ways in

Use the right door for the conversation you want.

Watch me build

Start where the unfair advantage is obvious: code-first technical teaching with personality, pace, and developer empathy.

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Hiring for DevRel

Bring me in when the role needs a builder who can ship code, teach on camera, and turn developer pain into product signal.

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Partner on GTM

Use Full Stack Drip, reference apps, demos, docs, and launch content when your product needs developer trust.

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Fix the funnel

Use me for DX audits, reference implementations, docs, demos, and first-run friction work.

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