Fireside with Voxgig

Today, we’re speaking to someone who’s been doing DevRel since before DevRel was a term anyone knew. Sébastien Blanc is the Developer Relation Engineer at Port IO, an internal developer portal that gives developers the opportunity to do all their engineering in one place. Sébastien speaks to us about his beginnings in DevRel, and the privileges of being given the steering wheel of a budding industry. We chat about the effectiveness of bringing in Dev influencers into the DevRel space - it turns out that many factors can determine if this is the right decision for your company. We touch on the impact of co-pilot on developing, AI tooling, internal developer portals and documentation! Reach out to Sébastien here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/s%C3%A9bastien-blanc-08a73b1/ Check out Port IO: https://www.port.io/ Find out more and listen to previous podcasts here: https://www.voxgig.com/podcast Subscribe to our newsletter for weekly updates and information about upcoming meetups: https://voxgig.substack.com/ Join the Dublin DevRel Meetup group here: www.devrelmeetup.com

Richard Bray is our guest on the show today, and we are so excited to talk all about his role as Developer Advocate at Better Stack. Better Stack is a developer-first observability and incident management platform that combines incident management with uptime monitoring. Richard started down the DevRel path by creating his own content on social media, which quickly led to him receiving interest from companies looking to draw on skill for engaging people through video. Over time, he’s continued to build up his skills, increase his clients and expand into more areas of Developer Education. We learn from Richard about what it means to be developer-first or developer-plus, and why that model can work so well for the right companies. We also touch on the process and hiring for DevRel, and the Do’s and Don’t’s you’ll want to look out for during the process. Reach out to Richard here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richbray/ Check out BetterStack: https://betterstack.com/ Find out more and listen to previous podcasts here: https://www.voxgig.com/podcast Subscribe to our newsletter for weekly updates and information about upcoming meetups: https://voxgig.substack.com/ Join the Dublin DevRel Meetup group here: www.devrelmeetup.com

Today we’re delighted to be talking outsourcing, distributed development, and empathy with Andy Hilliard, the CEO of Accelerance. Accelerance is a software outsourcing consultancy - in other words, they help other companies to build distributor teams and make them functional. Andy has ended up drawing on many of the traditional DevRel pillars, namely empathy, and we learn about how his time in the Peace Corps inspired his passion for global business, and piqued his interest in the myriad of different perspectives from the international community. He talks to us about how he tries to understand people on a human level, and empower them. In distributed development, it’s all about trying to create stickiness and common ground. He also put our minds at ease about AI - when no one truly knows what the future holds, there’s probably not much point in losing sleep over it. Reach out to Andy here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyhilliard/ Check out Accelerance: https://www.accelerance.com/ Find out more and listen to previous podcasts here: https://www.voxgig.com/podcast Subscribe to our newsletter for weekly updates and information about upcoming meetups: https://voxgig.substack.com/ Join the Dublin DevRel Meetup group here: www.devrelmeetup.com

Today, we’re back with a new episode! We chatted to Lori Lorusso who is an open source advocate and the head of community at Percona. Percona is an organisation leading the way in open source database software, support, and services. We talk to Lori about how she’s made her way as a DevRel, and how her background as a community builder for Harley-Davidson helped her prepare for her work with developers. Lori is also a speaker, and she thrives on helping developers to share their knowledge! It was wonderful to have Lori on the podcast, and we can’t wait to see what she does in the future! Reach out to Lori here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorilorusso/ Check out Percona: https://www.percona.com/ Find out more and listen to previous podcasts here: https://www.voxgig.com/podcast Subscribe to our newsletter for weekly updates and information about upcoming meetups: https://voxgig.substack.com/ Join the Dublin DevRel Meetup group here: www.devrelmeetup.com

In this episode, we’re drilling more into the vocational aspect of DevRel, with our guest Thorsten Schaeff. Thor has recently become the Developer Experience Engineer at ElevenLabs, an AI Audio research and deployment company, and he’s based out of Singapore, having moved there with Stripe six years ago. Thor tells us that the common thread amongst his various roles has been the learning and teaching aspects, and he’s been lucky enough to be able to follow his interests for the majority of his career. We agree with him on the point that if you are driven by wanting to help and teach people, then DevRel is the place for you. We also talk about his multi-modal approach to publishing content. Not only do you need to be targeting all platforms, with both long and short form content, these channels all need to interact with each other as well, and present as a cohesive front. He leaves us with a lovely reminder of just how rewarding it can be to see someone create something great with a technology you taught them to use. Reach out to Thorsten here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thorwebdev/ Check out ElevenLabs: https://elevenlabs.io/ Find out more and listen to previous podcasts here: https://www.voxgig.com/podcast Subscribe to our newsletter for weekly updates and information about upcoming meetups: https://voxgig.substack.com/ Join the Dublin DevRel Meetup group here: www.devrelmeetup.com