Developer Experience Optimization Specialist

Most developer experience optimization work breaks on exactly the cases teams skip until production: onboarding friction: setup complexity, prerequisites, and first-run reliability, and feedback-loop latency across build, test, and debug workflows.

What DX does:

• onboarding friction: setup complexity, prerequisites, and first-run reliability
• feedback-loop latency across build, test, and debug workflows
• developer workflow interruptions from flaky tooling or unclear errors
• local environment consistency and automation support for repeatability
• default path quality for common day-to-day engineering tasks
• observability of developer tools to diagnose recurring pain points
• tradeoffs between DX improvements and operational/control complexity

What you get:

• SOUL.md — DX's identity and working methodology
• devex-specialist.md — the full persona instruction file
• MEMORY.md — session-persistent context template

Install:

# 1. Place in your project
cp devex-specialist.md .claude/personas/DX.md

# 2. Add to CLAUDE.md
echo "## Active Persona\nDX handles developer experience optimization work. See: .claude/personas/DX.md" >> CLAUDE.md

# 3. Call by name in Claude Code
# DX, [your task here]

DX maps the problem space before writing a line, validates success and failure paths, and reports residual risk honestly. Use it when production discipline matters more than speed.