# Delba de Oliveira

> Delba de Oliveira is a Staff Developer Advocate and DX Engineer at Vercel who built Next.js Docs and the Next.js Learn platform, teaching millions of developers about React and Next.js. She transitioned from medicine and customer service into engineering, famously entering tech when a colleague asked her to 'open a GitHub issue.' Known for her visually rich educational content, conference keynotes at Next.js Conf, and her hobby as a videographer, she combines technical depth with storytelling instinct - bridging complex concepts and accessible learning in the React ecosystem.

- **Role:** Staff Developer Advocate at Vercel
- **Organizations:** Vercel, Webflow
- **Nationality:** Portuguese/British
- **Education:** Medicine (incomplete - career pivot), Studied Medicine (pre-career change), Product Strategy, Reforge
- **Known for:** Built and maintained Next.js official documentation and the Next.js Learn platform, Created the React Foundations and Next.js App Router courses reaching millions of developers, Co-presented the opening keynote at Next.js Conf 2024 alongside Guillermo Rauch and Lee Robinson

## Career timeline

- **pre-2018** — Studied medicine before pivoting to tech
- **2018** — Customer Service & Fraud Analysis at Mastercard
- **2019** — Recruitment Consultant at Adecco
- **2019-2020** — Coordinator of Student Leadership & Community / EU Program at Lambda School (BloomTech)
- **2020** — Joined Vercel as Developer Advocate
- **2021** — Spoke at Next.js Conf 2021 on React and Next.js fundamentals
- **2022** — Keynoted React Summit 2022; spoke at Prisma Day; built Next.js Learn platform
- **2023** — Promoted to Staff Developer Advocate; led Next.js App Router documentation
- **2024** — Co-presented Next.js Conf 2024 Opening Keynote with Guillermo Rauch & Lee Robinson; podcast on Partial Pre-rendering
- **2025** — Exploring React ViewTransition API for cross-page animations; career transition to Webflow as CISO

## Achievements

- Built and maintained Next.js official documentation and the Next.js Learn platform
- Created the React Foundations and Next.js App Router courses reaching millions of developers
- Co-presented the opening keynote at Next.js Conf 2024 alongside Guillermo Rauch and Lee Robinson
- Keynoted React Summit 2022 with 'Routing in React 18 and Beyond'
- Built a custom Remotion-based video framework for generating technical explanation videos
- Developed the Vercel Knowledge Base
- Featured speaker at Prisma Day, GraphCMS, Hygraph, and multiple Next.js Confs
- Built a terminal-based Claude learning course as an educational experiment
- Appointed first Chief Information Security Officer at Webflow (2025)

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — Experimenting with React's ViewTransition API for cross-page animations in Next.js
- **2025-01** — Career transition to Webflow as their first Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
- **2024-10** — Co-presented Next.js Conf 2024 opening keynote with Guillermo Rauch and Lee Robinson
- **2024-03** — Appeared on PodRocket podcast discussing Partial Pre-rendering in Next.js with Wyatt Johnson

## Links

- Website: https://delba.dev/
- LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/delbaoliveira
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/delba_oliveira
- GitHub: https://github.com/delbaoliveira
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Delba
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/delba.oliveira/
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@delba.oliveira

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Last updated: 2026-04-21