Megan Sullivan

“Megan has worked in the Developer Educator team at Apollo for over a year and reported to me. She started with a tall ask: create, with her two teammates, a complete new learning series on one of our most advanced products: Federation. She clearly articulated learning objectives, producing content and assessments on a complex and still-evolving technology, which required a lot of resilience and patience. She was instrumental in successfully shipping the most thorough and ambitious content we’ve produced on our learning platform Odyssey. In addition to producing self-paced learning material, Megan also has great abilities for live teaching. She’s had a clear success in preparing and hosting two workshop sessions (an intro to working on the backend with Apollo) at our annual user conference. I was impressed by how well she delivered that workshop and made it a truly interactive event with a large audience (>150 people). Keeping attendees engaged while also making sure the whole agenda was covered. Her preparation and care to deliver the best workshop experience made a real difference for the attendees, leading to excellent reviews. A final quality that made Megan a very valuable teammate in my eyes, was her ability to go deep, ask questions, and ensure we had all the understanding and clarity required before moving forward. That mindset led to concrete improvements in our content production and collaboration flow, both within the Developer Educator team and with external teams. I highly recommend Megan if you’re looking for a talented developer educator to train your users on complex technical topics.”

“I had such a great experience working with Megan on the Developer Educator team at Apollo. My favourite thing about working with Megan is that she is so thoughtful and intentional about the work she does. It showed in every interaction we had and every project she contributed to. She wrote and reviewed courses for Odyssey, the Apollo learning platform. She created and taught a 3-hour workshop (Getting Started with GraphQL and Apollo: Backend) for GraphQL Summit. She always set a great example for the team when it came to taking notes, documenting processes, asking great clarifying questions, running effective meetings and sharing information freely and openly. The time and care she puts into reviewing teammates’ content greatly improved our quality. She empathizes with the learner's perspective and makes sure that our content and starter code projects are clear and easy to follow. I’m excited to see where she goes next and learning more from her future work!”