Cloudinary Launches Creators Community for Developers Worldwide

Connect with developers globally, access free courses and resources, and build the future of visual experiences—now live with 'Cloud to Crowd' curriculum and 5 nonprofit partners

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cloudinary, the image and video platform powering many of the world's leading brands, today launched the Cloudinary Creators Community, a global network where developers connect, learn, and build the future of visual experiences. The community provides developers worldwide with free courses, hands-on projects, certification programs, and a collaborative space to advance their skills in image and video optimization. The inaugural offering, the "Cloud to Crowd" course, “Media IQ for Developers with Next.js”, teaches developers to build and optimize visual media at scale.

Expanding Access Through Nonprofit Partnerships

To maximize reach and impact, Cloudinary has partnered with five international tech-focused nonprofits to deliver training through structured cohorts and bootcamps. These partnerships enable the community to scale efficiently while supporting developers from diverse backgrounds.

The founding nonprofit partners are:

• Developers in Vogue from Ghana that aims to create a community of African women who are passionate about using tech to revolutionize Africa and beyond.
• GirlScript from India that started as an effort to make quality education accessible to everyone and now counts with a community of more than 500,000 learners.
• Hack Your Future from Denmark, a tech learning program for asylum seekers, refugees and others facing barriers to the Danish educational system and job market
• Tampa Devs from the US, the fastest-growing nonprofit community for software developers in Tampa Bay.
• Vets Who Code, a US-based nonprofit organization that provides free technical training to veterans.

Media Literacy and Practical Education

The program offers structured bootcamps and certifications to help developers, designers, and builders worldwide master the visual web. Participants gain access to a dedicated Discord environment, where they can attend expert webinars, collaborate on open-source projects, learn from real-live use cases, build their portfolio and receive mentorship.

"The Cloudinary Creators Community is a practical learning environment, not a marketing initiative," explains Jen Looper, Director of Developer Relations at Cloudinary. "It offers members the opportunity to acquire valuable skills for tackling complex, high-volume image and video management challenges. These skills are essential in today’s visual economy and give participants the practical expertise to help them advance their careers, no matter where they are based.”

"We’re excited to be one of the first nonprofits from India to collaborate with Cloudinary on this initiative,” said Anubha Maneshwar, Founding Director of GirlScript Foundation. “Media APIs and developer-first infrastructure are incredibly powerful yet underrepresented in education, and this partnership helps us bring these skills to a wider community of creators and developers. At GirlScript Foundation, we believe in opening up access to niche, high-impact technologies. Partnering with Cloudinary allows us to empower creators and developers in an area that’s rarely taught, but deeply essential in today’s digital products."

How to join

Developers can join the inaugural cohort through any of the five partner nonprofits or individually by completing Cloudinary’s Cloud to Crowd course, earning the certificate, and submitting an application at course completion. Want to be part of a cool community of folks passionate about media management at scale? Join our Discord server to take part in webinars, mini-hacks, and other activities.

Nonprofits interested in becoming affiliated with this program can email their statement of interest to [e-mail].

About Cloudinary

Cloudinary is the image and video platform that enables the world’s most engaging brands to deliver transformative visual experiences at a global scale. More than three million users and 11,000 customers, including Adidas, Etsy, Fiverr, Grubhub, Minted and Paul Smith rely on Cloudinary to bring their campaigns, apps and sites to life. Backed by an ecosystem of more than 300 partners, integrations and plug-ins, Cloudinary’s AI-powered image and video solutions offer a single source of truth for brands to manage, transform, optimize, and deliver engaging visual content to anyone, anywhere. As a result, brands across all industries are seeing up to a 203% ROI with benefits including faster time to market, higher user satisfaction and increased engagement and conversions. For more information, visit www.cloudinary.com.