June 2025 - July 2026

Developer Relations
at Prolific

Built Prolific's developer relations function from the ground up, spanning technical content, community, open source, events, internal enablement, and GTM support. This work was recognized with the "We Embrace Change" award for driving transformative change and shaping Prolific's direction.

Viviana Marquez speaking onstage at Prolific
0 → 1DevRel function
12+Open-source repos
+15Events
39k → 175kLinkedIn audience
0 → ~2kLuma followers

GitHub Open-Source Repos

Public examples, demos, templates, and developer-facing workflows.

  • Post-training with Prolific

    Reference workflow showing how to use Prolific with Tinker to collect human feedback for post-training pipelines, including SFT and DPO.

    🔗 GitHub repo

  • Prolific Smart Glasses POV Video Collection

    Video collection workflow for embodied AI and POV data collection.

    🔗 GitHub repo

  • CLI contributed

    Developer and agentic tooling and setup path for working with Prolific from the command line.

    🔗 GitHub repo

  • Skills contributed

    Developer tooling for using Prolific through Skills, a portable format for packaging repeatable agentic coding and task automation workflows.

    🔗 GitHub repo

  • Free Text Collection

    AI Task Builder template for collecting open-ended text responses.

    🔗 GitHub repo

  • Image Collection contributed

    AI Task Builder template for collecting image responses.

    🔗 GitHub repo

  • RLHF Data Collection Pipeline

    Pipeline for collecting human feedback and preference data.

    🔗 GitHub repo

  • Prolific Secured External URL

    Demo showing how to send Prolific participants to an external data collection platform securely, while preserving participant validation and study control.

    🔗 GitHub repo

  • Prolific External Study Link

    Getting-started guide for running Prolific studies on external tools, so researchers can collect data outside Prolific while still recruiting Prolific participants.

    🔗 GitHub repo

  • Prolific's AI Task Builder

    Introductory guide for using Prolific's AI Task Builder feature.

    🔗 GitHub repo

  • Prolific Survey

    Getting-started survey template for collecting structured responses from Prolific participants.

    🔗 GitHub repo

  • Prolific OSS organization README

    Created the GitHub organization description README for Prolific's open-source presence.

    🔗 GitHub org

  • Among Bots demo

    🔗 Deliberate Labs is a social research platform from Google DeepMind's PAIR Lab. I ran an Among Bots game as a live demo for research scientists, where Prolific participants tried to detect the LLM and showcased how human participants can power interactive social research experiences.

Videos

Videos were handled end-to-end: scripting, filming, editing, and publishing.

  • How to Post-Train an LLM: SFT, DPO, Human Feedback with Prolific

    Technical walkthrough connecting supervised fine-tuning, preference optimization, and human feedback workflows to Prolific.

    🔗 YouTube

  • How to Install Prolific's CLI Using GitHub

    Setup-oriented developer tutorial for getting started with Prolific's command-line tooling.

    🔗 YouTube

  • Collect real first-person video data for AI using Prolific

    Video walkthrough for collecting first-person video data for AI workflows with Prolific.

    🔗 LinkedIn

Podcast

  • Can Digital Twins Evaluate Agentic AI?

    Conversation with Dr. Dakuo Wang on digital twins, agentic AI, and evaluation.

    🔗 YouTube

  • Humans as AI Managers: Our Evolving Role in the Era of Experience

    Conversation with Dr. Bo Wen on how human roles shift as AI systems become more capable and experience-driven.

    🔗 LinkedIn

Blog Posts

  • When does autoresearch need a human? co-authored

    Explores when automated research workflows still need human judgment, oversight, and evaluation.

    🔗 Hugging Face

  • How the best AI teams evaluate at speed: Lessons from Microsoft, Amazon, and Braintrust

    Recap and synthesis of how AI teams approach evaluation workflows at speed.

    🔗 Prolific

  • Your AI agent is optimized to finish. That's not always what you need co-authored

    Argues for human judgment and task design when agents optimize for completion over quality.

    🔗 HumanX

Meetups

End-to-end: logistics, speaker outreach, marketing, hosting, and GTM lead handoff.

  • Operationalizing Agents | Prolific x AI Circle

    Featuring researchers from Google Research, Google DeepMind, and Snowflake.

    📍 San Francisco · 🗓️ May 2026 · 🔗 Luma

  • Frontier Evals | Prolific x AI Circle

    Featuring researchers from Amazon, Braintrust, and Microsoft.

    📍 Seattle · 🗓️ May 2026 · 🔗 Luma

  • Frontier Evals | Prolific x AI Circle

    Featuring researchers from Google DeepMind, Cohere, and LinkedIn.

    📍 New York · 🗓️ Mar 2026 · 🔗 Luma

  • What 25,000 Humans Really Think About AI | Prolific

    Featuring researchers from Prolific.

    📍 San Francisco · 🗓️ Dec 2025 · 🔗 Luma

  • Beyond the Benchmark | Prolific

    Featuring researchers from Inflection AI.

    📍 San Francisco · 🗓️ Nov 2025 · 🔗 Luma

  • Researchers Building Real-World AI Tooling | Prolific

    Featuring researchers from Prolific, USF, and Stanford.

    📍 San Francisco · 🗓️ Sep 2025 · 🔗 Luma

  • Strategic dinner events

    Relationship-building dinners for AI and research audiences.

    📍 San Francisco, New York, Seattle · 🗓️ 2025 - 2026

Conferences

Lead conferences included logistics, contract, marketing, booth, and GTM lead handoff.

Lead

  • AI Developer Conference by DeepLearning.AI

    📍 San Francisco · 🗓️ Apr 2026 · 🔗 LinkedIn

  • AI Developer Conference by DeepLearning.AI

    📍 New York · 🗓️ Nov 2025

Support

  • AI Engineer World's Fair

    📍 San Francisco
    🗓️ Jul 2026

  • London Tech Week

    📍 London
    🗓️ Jun 2026

  • ICLR

    📍 Rio de Janeiro
    🗓️ Apr 2026

  • Human X

    📍 San Francisco
    🗓️ Apr 2026

  • AI Engine Summer Hack

    📍 London
    🗓️ Aug 2025

Hackathons

  • UC Berkeley EMBA students x USF MSDS students

    📍 San Francisco · 🗓️ Jun 2026 · 🔗 LinkedIn

  • Memories.ai Hackathon partnership

    📍 London & San Francisco · 🗓️ Sep - Oct 2025 · 🔗 London Luma · San Francisco Luma

Guest Speaker Engagements Representing Prolific

  • AJCU Provosts AI Leadership Summit

    📍 San Francisco · 🗓️ Jun 2026 · 🔗 USF

  • USF Alumni Panel at the Data Science Conference

    📍 San Francisco · 🗓️ Jun 2026

  • PyLadies SF

    📍 San Francisco · 🗓️ Apr 2026 · 🔗 Luma

  • Write the Docs Bay Area

    📍 San Francisco · 🗓️ Jan 2026 · 🔗 Luma

  • Data Science Speaker Series

    📍 San Francisco · 🗓️ Sep 2025 · 🔗 Meetup · YouTube

  • MSRI-UP Alumni Panel at the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute UC Berkeley

    📍 Berkeley · 🗓️ Jul 2025

Misc

  • Internal enablement

    Led internal AI education and enablement, teaching teams core AI concepts, how to demo Prolific, and how to position it within post-training, evals, and modern AI workflows.

  • Audience growth

    Supported audience growth across Prolific's community channels, including Luma 0 → ~2k followers and LinkedIn 39k → 175k.

  • Swag support

    Managed event swag and co-created audience-aware stickers with our graphic designer, including concepts for AI evals engineers and developers building with APIs.