Episode 9 - Lessons from a decade of DevRel

In this episode, we chat with Advocate Extraordinaire  Tim Carry. Today Tim is the developer advocate at Content Squared but prior he was one of the first employees at Algolia, now a huge thriving leader in search technology, Tim is also a speech coach for developers looking to get better at presentations. We take a dive through Tims journey and how he ended up in DevRel despite not knowing it existed as a career, to begin with.  Developer communities is a podcast hosted by Alex Savigny from Circle CI and Mackenzie Jackson from GitGuardian to unpack more about how to thrive in developer relations. 

In this episode we welcome Julien Lengrand-Lambert a developer advocate at Adyen in the Netherlands to discuss if DevRel and engineering can become sustainable. Julien provides great insights into this subject and also shares with us his journey into DevRel. 

In this episode, we dive into being in DevRel in Kenya and in the African continent as a whole with Anthony Kiplimo. Anthony previously worked as a developer advocate for Africas talking and now is working in developer experience in Elarian. Anthony brings some incredible insights into the unique challenges he faces in DevRel.

Joyce Lin is the head of developer relations at Postman, a company that needs no introductions. Joyce shares with us her very interesting journey into DevRel, leaving behind a career in business growth to end up in a famous intensely developer-focused company. This conversation covers everything from what led her to make that transitions, getting success from live streams and what we can do to reduce the gender gap in tech. Follow Joyce onTwitter at @PetuniaGray

In this episode, we talk to Philippe Ozil a developer advocate at Salesforce. We learn about Philippes decade long experience in the field of DevRel and we go into details about what it is like being an advocate in a large company. 

In episode 10 we welcome back Alexandre and talk to Christopher Maneu, a developer advocate from Microsoft and we talk about being an advocate on the cutting edge of technology. From building the first Iphone applications to underwater data centers and even how scuba diving helped Christopher become an advocate, this episode is a wild and interesting ride. 

In this weeks episode, we talk with Developer advocate and GitHub star Liran Tal about collaborating in the open-source community and building developer tools as a Developer Advocate. How passion projects intersect with work as a developer advocate and what it takes to become recognized by the open-source community as a star.

Do you need to be able to code to be a developer advocate?  In this episode, we get to talk to Heidi Waterhouse an inspirational digital transformation advocate that has been working in DevRel and advocacy for many years but doesn't herself code. We discuss what tools she uses in her job and gain some golden insights into writing technical content. 

In this episode, we discuss with our guest Zachary Powell, a senior developer advocate at Huawei, how to use new and emerging social media within DevRel, in particular TikTok. TikTok and other new social media capture a younger audience with much higher engagement rates than 'traditional' social media, but it can be difficult to get started and create content that performs well. Zachary shares his tips and tricks of how he can use this social media engagement with the next generation of developers.

In this episode, Mackenzie and Alex talk about writing documentation, the do's, the don'ts and the musts. They talk about how documentation can be not only used as a tool to help developers but also how it can be used as a marketing tool.  Developing communities is a podcast made for other developer advocates to help them navigate this new position and learn with the best.