Microsoft & GitHub
Chief Developer Advisor / 2025–present
Advise executives on AI-era engineering strategy. Bring customer insight into developer-tooling roadmaps and go-to-market.
Fractional & interim CTO / EMEA
Agents write
the code.
You still own
the climb.
Fractional CTO leadership for EMEA scale-ups and enterprises. I help your organisation, platform, and AI adoption move in the same direction.
Suzanne Daniels / Founder
Selected experience
- 30+ years
- Engineering and developer markets
- Microsoft & GitHub
- Chief Developer Advisor
- Backstage at Spotify
- Founding DevRel
Work with me / Great Success
The right kind of involvement.
I help technology companies align what they build, how they operate, and how they reach developers.
Fractional CTO
Embedded engineering leadership
Senior engineering leadership for the organisation, platform, and AI decisions ahead.
Explore the engagementHappy Developers™
Fractional Developer GTM & DevRel leadership
Positioning, developer trust, and adoption for developer-facing technology businesses.
Explore the engagementClimb With Intent™
Executive advisory by Great Success
Independent counsel for consequential technology and business decisions. You retain ownership.
Explore the engagementSelected work
Experience, applied.
A few examples of work I've led. These are roles held, not client endorsements.
Global logistics & e-commerce company
Head of Developer Experience / 2023
Established a developer-experience function and defined the platform strategy and golden-path tooling for the engineering organisation.
Backstage at Spotify
Founding DevRel / 2021–2023
Built the DevRel team and grew the community past 900 contributors and 700 adopting companies, connecting developers with product and engineering.
The approach
Intent first.
Evidence always.
The work starts with an agreed outcome, clear ownership, and a direction your team can act on. Evidence tells us whether it worked.
My engineering work draws on the ISEE Framework™ — Intent, Structure, Execution, Evidence — within the Agentile™ operating model. The method serves the work, not the other way around.
Explore the ISEE Framework™ (opens in new tab)Suzanne Daniels / Founder
I work where engineering judgement and commercial consequences meet. The aim is a clear direction, decisions made, and teams unblocked.
More about meYour next move
What's your
next move?
A 30-minute conversation. A clear next step, or a referral to someone better suited. No charge for the first call.
Start a conversationhello@greatsuccess.nl / Usually back within two working days.