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DevRel? What?

Christopher Wilcox
November 17, 2021
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DevRel? What?

Talk to Ada Developers Academy before a panel from Google DevRel for Q and A with the current cohort.

Christopher Wilcox

November 17, 2021
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  1. DevRel?
    What?
    Chris Wilcox
    Google Developer Relations
    Credit to https://thagomizer.com/ for the original version of this talk

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  2. YMMV

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  3. #BadlyExplainYourJob

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  4. - Aja Hammerly
    @the_thagomizer “I make explosion
    noises at my computer
    when demos fail and get
    paid for it.”

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  5. What do you do?

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  6. Write

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  7. Write Words

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  8. - Thea Flowers
    @theavalkyrie
    “We help people get
    unstuck.”

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  9. Write Code

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  10. - Jen Tong
    @MimmingCodes
    “I help people cause
    trouble with code.”

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  11. Learn

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  12. - Brian Dorsey
    @briandorsey “I travel the world,
    excited to learn about
    how our products are
    broken.”

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  13. Collaborate

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  14. - Colt McAnlis
    @duhroach
    “I’m the one Developers
    yell at when the platform
    isn’t working how they
    want; And I’m the one the
    engineers yell at when
    the developers aren’t
    using it right.”

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  15. Meetings

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  16. - Sandeep Dinesh
    @SandeepDinesh
    “I read Hacker News and
    Reddit, and pretend I’m
    an expert on stage.”

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  17. Teach

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  18. - Terrence Ryan
    @tpryan “I go places and talk
    to people about
    products, but don’t
    care if you buy them.”

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  19. Participate

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  20. - Mark Mandel
    @Neurotic
    “Professional sticker
    distributor.”

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  21. Listen

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  22. Skills

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  23. Communicator

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  24. Written
    Communicator

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  25. Verbal
    Communicator

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  26. Online
    Communicator

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  27. (Developer) Advocate

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  28. Technical
    Practitioner

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  29. Storyteller

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  30. Adapt Message to
    Audience

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  31. Influencer

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  32. Emotional Intelligence
    and Empathy

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  33. Organizer

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  34. Optimism & Patience

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  36. Googler Panel
    Khanh Nguyen (she/her)
    Developer Relations
    Engineer
    Flutter + Dart
    Chris Wilcox
    Developer Relations
    Engineer
    Google DevRel
    Kaslin Fields (she/her)
    Developer Advocate
    Google Cloud (Google
    Kubernetes Engine)
    Brian Dorsey (he/they)
    Developer Relations
    Engineer
    Advocacy-Google Cloud
    (VMs)
    Ace Nassri (he/him)?
    Developer Relations
    Engineer
    Serverless DevRel
    Shubha Rajan (she/they)
    Developer Relations
    Engineer
    Databases DevRel
    Masked Googler
    Very Official
    Much Wow Product
    Meredith Slota (she/her)
    DRE Engineering Manager
    Databases & Data
    Analytics

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  37. Seed Questions if Needed
    - What is your favorite part of Developer Relations? (Kaslin, Ace)
    - What is your least favorite? (Brian)
    - What career/job did you have before DevRel? (Meredith, Khanh)
    - Is there anything specific that's made you think "Wow, this SWE would really excel as a DevRel
    instead?" and what was that? (Or what was the turning point for you to switch gears?) (Ace, Brian)
    - Talking about DevRole's feature as being 'Online Communicator' how do you keep a balance between
    being polite and at the same time give a good lesson to online jerks out there? And how do you learn
    to handle it (Shubha, Khanh)
    - How do you measure your impact? (Brian, Ace)
    - How the DevRel role is different than Product Manager' role? As far as I see these roles are pretty
    similar, both of them advocating for the end user experience and always think how to improve user's
    experience (which in DevRel case is Developers). How would you differentiate Dev Rel vs. Business
    Solutions Architect vs. Product Manager? :) (Meredith, Ace, Brian, Shubha )
    - Who would be the good candidate for DevRel? Technical/Personal characters?
    - Considering what you'll have to accomplish lots of things within your DevRel role, what would be
    your top 3 KPI's at your role? (Chris, Ace, Kaslin, Shubha)
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