About
Chris Woodruff
DevRel practitioner, co-author of Developer Relations Activity Patterns, founder of EcoSynt, and the practitioner who coined Agentic Relations.
Why Agentic Relations, why now
I've spent twenty years at the intersection of developer communities and the platforms they build on. I've been a developer advocate, a community manager, a DevRel leader, and — in the process of writing Developer Relations Activity Patterns with Ted Neward, Scott McAllister, and David Neal — one of the practitioners who tried to put the entire field on systematic ground.
When we wrote the book, we documented 37 activity patterns for a field that had been operating on institutional knowledge and instinct for thirty years. The response from the community was what it always is when you name things that people have been experiencing without vocabulary: recognition. This is the thing I've been doing. Now I have a name for it.
Agentic Relations happened the same way. I started noticing that a significant fraction of the questions being asked about developer platform integrations were coming from developers who weren't writing the code themselves — they were asking AI tools to write it, and the AI tools were producing broken integrations. The failures were silent. The documentation was unchanged. The API hadn't changed. But something had changed: the audience.
I named it. I built the framework. I built this site to make the framework available to the field.
The book
Developer Relations Activity Patterns: A Unified Approach to DevRel, DX, and Community Management — co-authored with Ted Neward, Scott McAllister, and David Neal — is the field's first systematic catalog of DevRel activity patterns. Inspired by the Gang of Four's design pattern methodology applied to software development, it documents 37 recurring activities in developer-facing programs, each with intent, context, solution, participants, implementation, metrics, examples, and variants.
Published by Apress in 2026. Available wherever technical books are sold.
EcoSynt
Coming soonEcoSynt is an agent ecosystem health and observability platform — the infrastructure that makes the Agent Ecosystem Health Dashboard real at production scale. It instruments multi-agent AI systems using OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions, produces AgentScore health metrics, and gives DevRel teams the measurement layer that Agentic Relations requires.
EcoSynt is where I am applying the Agentic Relations framework in practice. It is not the subject of this site — Agentic Relations is — but it is the proof of concept.
EcoSynt is not yet publicly available. More details will be shared here as the platform approaches launch.
Speaking
I speak on Agentic Relations, DevRel evolution in the AI era, agent ecosystem health, and the pattern-based approach to DevRel program design. Recent and upcoming engagements include developer conferences, DevRel community events, and enterprise engineering leadership summits.
If you're building a program on the topic of DevRel in the AI era — a conference track, a corporate training series, a community event — I'd welcome the conversation.