As we provide a drag and drop tool to create responsive templates, we needed to be able to programmatically manipulate responsive email HTML from UI blocks. We initially created MJML at Mailjet for our own needs, and had been using it for more than a year before open sourcing it. What was the inspiration behind creating MJML? Instead of having to deal with complex hacks and quirks proper to each email client over and over again, we bundled all of our findings as well as the community’s discoveries in a simple language that is responsive by design on every major email clients. MJML is a layer of abstraction to make responsive email easy. I’ve been leading this very exciting project since then! In two sentences, how would you sell MJML to our readers? Then, after working in the open sourcing process for MJML and seeing how rapidly the interest grew among the email community, I got the opportunity to take over the project in May 2016. I started working more on the programming and deliverability side, as I was focused on our API, meeting developer communities and advocating developers’ needs internally. As I wanted to bridge both worlds, I started developer relations in 2013, then joined the email service provider Mailjet after my internship at Microsoft, again in the DevRel team, in 2015. While I graduated from a Master in Business & Marketing, I discovered programming as a hobby while studying and instantly got hooked, becoming a self-taught developer. The Interview Can you give some background on yourself and your history in Email Development?
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