Last year we announced our Twilio Champions Program. A Twilio Champion is a developer who inspires and equips their communities using Twilio. They demonstrate leadership, expertise, advocacy, generosity, and Twilio Magic within the content they create and community building activities they participate in.

Today, we'd like to introduce to you to one of our Twilio Champions, Chloe Condon.

Chloe Condon is a Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft. She spoke at SIGNAL 2018 along with Bear Douglas on Lessons Learned from 1,000 bots and recently coded a new friend she likes to refer to as "Twilio Smith" into existence in An Ambivert's Guide to Azure Functions.

Why are communications important to you in your career or personal life?

My phone is on me at all times, and I use it for family, work, and personal use 24/7. My job requires me to communicate constantly, and in my personal life ...

Last year we announced our Twilio Champions Program. A Twilio Champion is a developer who inspires and equips their communities using Twilio. They demonstrate leadership, expertise, advocacy, generosity, and Twilio Magic within the content they create and community building activities they participate in.

Today, we'd like to introduce to you to one of our Twilio Champions, April Speight.

April Speight is the Founder of Vogue and Code and Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. She loves talking about Python and documentation. April attended SIGNAL for the first time last year. Here's why she's coming back for 2019!

Why are communications important to you in your career or personal life?

I was essentially born with the gift of gab. So naturally, I love communicating with others. More important, I love talking to computers - which is why I love AI bots! I really like how far we’ve come with natural language processing ...

Last year we announced our Twilio Champions Program. A Twilio Champion is a developer who inspires and equips their communities using Twilio. They demonstrate leadership, expertise, advocacy, generosity, and Twilio Magic within the content they create and community building activities they participate in.

Today, we'd like to introduce to you to one of our Twilio Champions, Clement Sauvage. 

Clement Sauvage is a developer/entrepreneur and long-time fan of Twilio. You can often find him participating at events in his home country - France. Here's what keeps Clement coming back to SIGNAL year after year.  

Why are communications important to you in your career or personal life?

I’m a social guy (my favorite book is Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi), and I think communication is the root of being human. And professionally, I think businesses that succeed are the ones which hear and listen to their customers.

Describe one of ...

Last year we announced our Twilio Champions Program. A Twilio Champion is a developer who inspires and equips their communities using Twilio. They demonstrate leadership, expertise, advocacy, generosity, and Twilio Magic within the content they create and community building activities they participate in.

Today, we'd like to introduce to you to one of our Twilio Champions, Jen Aprahamian.

Jen Aprahamian is a Technical Program Manager for Developer Education at Netflix. She went from winning fax machines signed by @jeffiel at SIGNAL $BASH 2017 to presenting Flex during the keynote last year.  

Why are communications important to you in your career or personal life?

I honestly can’t imagine a way that communications don’t touch my life! It’s so important to stay connected to people, whether for personal relationships or to get work done, and communications are pivotal to that.

Describe one of your favorite apps today and why ...

Apply Now For Twilio’s Software Engineering Apprentice Program

At Twilio, a job applicant is more than just what’s written on their resume. Some may not have much of a resume at all. And according to LaFawn Davis, Twilio’s Global Head of Culture and Inclusion, that's perfectly acceptable, especially with an ever-shrinking pool of new college graduates to fill junior level technical positions. “We aim to remove barriers and find talent where other companies may not be looking," she said.

Evidence of this is Hatch, the company's software engineering apprenticeship program designed to be a bridge to a potential career in tech. Hatch helps Twilio hire and grow exceptional talent from sources that other tech companies may not be considering. That’s especially important for job-seekers in underrepresented groups, those with non-traditional educations, or self-taught developers who might not rise to the top of a traditional candidate ...

Summary

On Friday, November 16, 2018, Twilio became aware of an incident regarding Voxox, a wholesale SMS provider, in which an unsecured database was accessible to the internet and exposed details of SMS messages and the companies that sent them. Media articles report that many of these SMS messages contained sensitive information such as authentication passcodes and delivery tracking numbers linking to unauthenticated details on the web. The vulnerability was uncovered by security researcher Sébastien Kaul.

Trust is a top priority for Twilio. We take issues like this very seriously and quickly sought to understand the impact of this incident for Twilio’s customers. This blog post details our findings and will be updated if any new information comes to light.

Actions Taken

Upon learning of this incident, Twilio triggered our incident response process to examine whether or not this wholesale SMS provider, Voxox, was in use by the Twilio ...

At SIGNAL, we inducted a new cohort of builders to the Doers Hall of Fame.

The Doers Hall of Fame recognizes members of the Twilio community who have driven transformative impact through strategic use of communications.

“The most inspiring thing about Twilio is the innovation that comes from our community,” said Jeff Lawson, co-founder and CEO of Twilio. “Each year, we celebrate those exemplary community members who are paving the way for the future of communications by building things we never imagined. I’m thrilled to induct the latest class to the Twilio Hall of Doers at this year’s SIGNAL event. We can’t wait to see what they build next.”

This year’s inductees include:

Streetwide - Founders Fred Diego and Alicia Nieves created a distributed call center technology that partners with local community organizations to help undocumented immigrants who are facing ICE raids and deportation. The Twilio-powered helpline ...

We've shared a lot about SIGNAL, our customer and developer conference, over the last couple of weeks, but we thought it would be great to share the experience from someone else’s shoes, so we invited our friend April Speight to share about her experience. Here’s what she had to say:

I had only learned about Twilio a few months ago when I was invited to an for event TwilioQuest. I didn't know just how easy it was to use Twilio's APIs! Since then, I've been hooked on learning more about what others are doing within the Twilio community. However, as a new user, I wasn't sure as to where to start. After much expressed interest and genuine curiosity to learn more, I received an invite to attend SIGNAL under the SIGNAL 2018 Scholarship program. That changed everything!

Whoot whoot! Here with all the cool @twilio kids at @signalconf ...

Twilio is changing how people feel about going to work and is well on its way to becoming a prime example of a workplace where people can do the best work of their careers, and where diverse talent is not only sought after, it’s embraced and nurtured.

The company has taken its workplace diversity and inclusion commitment a step further by setting some ambitious goals around recruiting, equitable pay and promotions, and cultivating a company-wide sense of belonging. In fact, when Twilio celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2023, it's aiming for every Twilion to feel that they belong.

Twilio believes that having a diverse workforce brings unique ideas to new prototypes. And when employees feel included, not only will exceptional talent come to the company, they’ll be happier and stay longer. “You can spend a lot of money on just recruiting and bringing people through the door; but ...