Preston So

“Preston and I worked together for over three years at Oracle on developer targeted initiatives for Oracle Content Management. He joined the team as Senior Director charged with developing and leading the strategy for enabling developers to build scalable enterprise content solutions against our content cloud service. His unique experience as a developer, product manager, UX designer, conference speaker and author of multiple coding and design books, made him the perfect candidate to jump-start and steer Oracle Content Management as a headless CMS. Preston helped launch and advance many developer initiatives including GraphQL API support, open-source SDKs in developer-preferred technology, expansion of the CLI, headless-experience previews and orchestration and much more. And even with all those accomplishments, I believe that his biggest contribution was getting the engineering team to pivot and learn how to build product features and solutions for the developer persona. I was always impressed by Preston’s work ethic, communication skills and how readily he adapted to engineering constraints and business dynamics. But what made him stand out most was his empathy and willingness to help team members leverage his vast subject matter expertise. It was a pleasure working with Preston and I have no hesitation recommending him to future roles where vision and leadership are needed, especially in content management and developer-community relations.”

“Preston is deeply empathetic, highly collaborative, and a community champion. Whether he's onstage or behind the scenes, Preston is a force for creating, educating, and enabling developer communities. He's a leader that operates from a place of cross-functional problem solving and advocacy for users. Working with Preston was a pleasure and he's a wonderful addition to any team he joins.”