2023 — Present, Berlin
Head of Marketing — DatoCMS
Bootstrapped GraphQL & REST Headless CMS SaaS
B2D B2B API Marketing SaaS
datocms.com →
About
👋 I’m Ronak. I head up marketing at DatoCMS , a profitable and bootstrapped GraphQL and REST Headless CMS built by a small team in Italy 🤌
In the past I've held various senior IC and leadership roles at Lano , Hygraph , ZenMate , and more. I'm based in Berlin, Germany
On the side, I’m co-building Savepad , a collaborative swipe file and knowledge base for growth teams, and co-running a Developer Marketing Community with 2.5k+ peeps from dev tooling companies like MongoDB, GitHub, and PostHog. I've also co-launched a job board for GTM roles in developer tooling companies , and I'm curating resources on B2D marketing and B2B marketing .
I sometimes consult B2B SaaS and Developer Tooling companies on their GTM and marketing. So if you're keen to chat, drop me a message .
In my spare time I'm usually discovering new restaurants, finding a new shawarma spot in Berlin, planning another trip to somewhere in the Middle East, thinking of my next whimsical tattoo, boring my friends with aviation related things (🫶🏽
Embraer 195
,
Airbus A321Neo
, and
Airbus A340-600
), or replaying
Ghost of Tsushima
,
AC Origins
, or
AC Odyssey
.
Recent Work
2022 — 2023, Berlin
Director of Marketing — Lano
Payroll Consolidation & EOR SaaS
B2B Enterprise SaaS
lano.io →
2019 — 2022, Berlin
VP of Marketing — Hygraph (prev. GraphCMS)
GraphQL Headless CMS SaaS — (prev. GraphCMS)
B2D B2B API Marketing SaaS
hygraph.com →
2016 — 2019, Berlin
Head of Marketing — ZenMate
B2C & B2B VPN SaaS — (M&A by KAPE Technologies in 2019)
B2C B2B SaaS
zenmate.com →
Select Projects
Savepad — Personal project
Collaborative swipe file and knowledge base for growth teams
savepad.app →Developer Marketing Community — Online community
An active Slack community of 2.5K+ marketers in developer tooling
marketingto.dev →DevToolJobs — Personal project
A job board for GTM roles at developer tooling companies
devtooljobs.com →`awesome-developer-marketing` — Resources
A curation of resources for developer marketing
github.com →`awesome-marketing` — Resources
A curation of resources for B2B SaaS marketing
github.com →Build Your DXP — Personal project
A catalog of curated APIs for composable DXPs (MACH)
buildyourdxp.com →Select Talks
Scaling Devtools with Jack Bridger — Podcast
Talking about GTM strategies for developer tools
podcast.bitreach.io →B2B Better with Jason Bradwell — Podcast
Talking about marketing at developer tools
pod.co →Decoupled Days — Conference Talk
Talk on composable architectures for the enterprise
hopin.com →Hygraph Talks — Recording
Talk with Kelly Goetsch on MACH architectures beyond eCommerce
youtube.com →Netguru Disruption Forum — Conference Talk
Talk on going from monolithic suites to microservice stacks
netguru.com →Developer Marketing Summit — Conference Panel
Panel on API Marketing and GTM Strategies
youtube.com →DXP 360 — Recording
Talk with Kaya on Headless CMS, MACH, and APIs
youtube.com →Geekle eCommerce Tech Summit — Conference Talk
Talk on MACH Architectures for eCommerce enterprises
youtube.com →Brainfarts
I (mostly) don't believe in keyword research
I think as marketers, we're collectively too obsessed with Lighthouse scores
People Are The Worst is a fun read
Commercial/GTM teams need more Principal roles
Can we stop with 🚀💪😎📈ing everything?!
Everything online is basically either a form or a table
AB testing is (mostly) a waste of time
We're all just making sh*t up
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