People

Laura Vass is co-founder of Pronovix, and organizer and host of the DevPortal Awards and the API The Docs event series. She researches trends and best practices in developer portal focus areas. Laura is passionate about creating developer portals as socio-technical hubs that drive business value. With a master in Chemistry and academic studies in Functional Genomics, her interests include but are not limited to complex system dynamics, socio-technical systems, and conflict mediation.

Pronovix is a boutique consultancy specializing in developer portal research, design, development, support, and audits. Leveraging nearly a decade of expertise, the company customizes a pre-built CMS platform with predefined extensions and professional services to meet customer-specific needs. Pronovix has expanded Apigee’s Drupal portal into an open-source developer portal platform, available as a SaaS or on-prem solution, empowering organizations to shape their own roadmaps. 

“In my 7th session with the Devportal Awards, I strongly resonate with the user expectations for a decluttered, cognitively accessible, multimodal experience, with all information ready to be served just at the asking. Clear information architecture, effective search, and frictionless onboarding should be table stakes by now. With AI tools, these can be spectacularly augmented, as long as the extensive foundation is there.”