About / Who we are
Run by people
who've shipped.
Mainthread is a small team of ex-engineers, DevRel leads and technical writers. We started it because we were tired of watching great developer products get marketed by people who'd never opened a terminal.
What we believe
01
Respect the reader's time.
A developer's attention is the scarcest thing you'll ever compete for. We never waste it with throat-clearing, filler, or content written to hit a word count.
02
AI for speed, humans for trust.
We use modern tools to move fast. We never let them write the part a developer would notice. The judgment is always human, and it's the whole product.
03
Show the work, not the hype.
Real code, real benchmarks, real trade-offs. Developers trust content that admits what a product can't do. So that's what we write.
The team
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Dana Okafor
Founder · ex-infra eng
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Sam Reyes
Head of DevRel
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Priya Nair
Lead technical writer
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Theo Lindqvist
Education & video
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