Michael Lynn.

Technical enablement · AI & developer platforms

I build the technical curriculum your GTM teams run on.

Courses, hands-on labs, demos, and facilitator guides for AI and developer-platform companies — built against your real APIs, and maintainable after I hand them over.

labs/lab-2-structured-outputs.md Go run it ↗
// The prompt never asks for JSON. The schema is attached to
// the request and the API is constrained to it.
const TriageSchema = z.object({
  category:         z.enum(CATEGORIES),
  urgency:          z.enum(["low","normal","high","urgent"]),
  requires_human:   z.boolean(),
  escalation_reason: z.string().nullable(),
  confidence:       z.number().min(0).max(1),
});

Facilitator note

Stop here. Ask the room what happens when confidence comes back at 0.4. Most people say “retry”. The answer the schema is arguing for is route it to a person.

That distinction is the whole lab. Budget 8–10 minutes; it is where the group either gets structured outputs or doesn’t.

Not a mockup. That is lab 2 of a course that is live, and the link runs it.

The difference

Working labs and demos against real APIs. Slides about them.

How the work is shaped

Start small. The audit is the door.

Most teams begin with a fixed-fee audit, because it produces something useful whether or not we work together again.

2–3 weeks

Curriculum audit & roadmap

I go through what you already have, map it against your product surfaces, and find where the gaps actually are — usually not where the backlog says.

You get A prioritized roadmap you can hand to anyone, and a clear read on what to build first.
Per project

Build sprints

Courses, labs, demos, and decks, built and shipped against your real APIs. Written to be maintained by your team, not just delivered to it.

You get Working, documented assets — and a backlog that is shorter than it was.
Ongoing

Fractional enablement lead

A set number of days a week, owning one product surface's curriculum end to end alongside your enablement, DevRel, and PMM leads.

You get Curriculum that stays current through every release, without a headcount req.
One-off

Workshops & developer days

Hackathon-in-a-box and Developer Day design, live delivery, and train-the-trainer so your own people can run it next time.

You get An event that runs on the day, and a facilitator guide so it runs again without me.

Background

I have built this program before, at scale.

Twenty-five years across software engineering, infrastructure, enterprise architecture, and developer platforms — the last decade of it at MongoDB, building the enablement that field teams actually used.

25+

Years across engineering, enterprise architecture, and developer platforms.

10 yrs

At MongoDB — Principal Staff Developer Advocate and Manager, Strategic Developer Relations.

Global

Designed the Developer Day program delivered worldwide to drive hands-on adoption.

160

Episodes hosting the MongoDB Podcast, plus a decade of conference stages.

Next step

Bring me the backlog you keep deferring.

Thirty minutes. Tell me what your field org is struggling to teach, and I will tell you whether it is an audit, a sprint, or something you should just build in-house. If it is the last one, I will say so.