Gitpod Community Heroes
Our program recognises developers that go above and beyond to contribute to Gitpod.
Join the missionCommunity is always at the heart of Gitpod.
Community is at the heart of Gitpod. Together with our Community Heroes, we want to push our mission of empowering developers to make software engineering collaborative and joyful again.

Your benefits
This is not a paid position, but in exchange for contributing to Gitpod, you will get access to some great and exclusive rewards and perks.
Opportunities to grow
We promise you a safe space to improve your coding, content creation or even public speaking skills.
Build a network
Build your network with our thriving community, connect with and learn from like-minded people.
Recognition
Associate yourself with our brand and become one of our community moderators on Discord.
Free OSS plan
Enjoy 2500 credits on the open source plan on any public repository.
Extra resources
Receive exclusive swag, access to resources to help you spread the word, content reviews from the Gitpod team, and more!
Beta access
Test new features before they are officially released and share your feedback with our product teams.
Eligibility criteria
To become part of the Gitpod’s Community Heroes program, you’d need to:
- Be at least 18+ years old and have a Gitpod account in good standing
- Be committed to Gitpod's values of diversity, equity & inclusion
- Be eager to gitpodify and to tell the world about Gitpod
- Enjoy creating and sharing technical content be it via blog posts, social media, public speaking, workshops or conferences. You must have examples ready to show us!
- Enjoy helping the Gitpod community 🧡
Meet the Heroes
Would you like to connect with the Community Heroes? Have a chat on Discord.
Join our Discord server
Aurélie Vache
@scraly#2606
David Bakin
@david.bakin#0108
Henit Chobisa
@Henit_Chobisa#9600
Horacio Gonzalez
@LostInBrittany#4863
Jean-Philippe Baconnais
@Jean-Philippe Baconnais#4575
Julien Lengrand-Lambert
@Airball#0026
Justin Hall
@jhalljhall#6295
Louis Tournayre
@louidji#9103
M Palanikannan
@PalanikannanM#0257
Marty Henderson
@ravegrunt#4200
Noe Samaille
@seillama#9185
Olivier Beautier
@Le Poulpe#0020
Om More
@Om#8871
Philippe Charrière
@k33g#4721
Rishab Kumar
@RishabKumar#6059
Sarah Rainsberger
@sarah11918#7017
Thierry Chantier
@TitiMoby#8912
William Ghelfi
@William J. Ghelfi#4758Join us empowering developers to make engineering collaborative and joyful again.
Are you our next community hero?