Start your “evangelist” unofficially DevRel Meetup In Tokyo #19

Who I am? Junichi Okamura @benzookapi PayPal IntegrationManager/ Evangelist Scala/Java/Node.js/Python/ Ruby/PHP/../Mobile/../ppt /I18N/Marketing/Payment API Lover/Agro-IoT/Cartoonist

My formal suit

Today’s topic What is the best way to become an evangelist

My answer is… START IT UNOFFICIALLY

Why unofficially? 1. Appealing value of evangelist is tough in company roles (you are a beginner, especially so) 2. Your immaturity will be allowed and make less damage on your company 3. If you are facing customers or product officially, that will be good impact on your evangelizing

Prerequisites 1. Becoming an evangelist requires much experience, talents, and integrity 2. Good evangelist brings your company a huge profit, but bad one do a loss 3. Letting executives understand the value of evangelizing is tough work, they tend to think it risky initially

My case… 1. Started my “evangelist” unofficially in 2015 (my main role was pre-sales and technical consultant) 2. I have learned so many things of presentation, community, demo making, technical/legal issues, etc. during “unofficially” 3. After I got some results, I converted my “evangelist” to official roles with some metrics to appeal executive

If I had started officially… 1. Strict budget and KPI would have fallen down on me like devils 2. If I couldn’t have got quantitative achievement, my role would have disappeared (or myself!) 3. Effective knowledge from sales support would not have been obtained (that help me currently)

Stopping you becoming…? NO, DO THAT! BUT HOW IS VERY IMPORTANT!

The key factors I learned unofficially for good evangelists 1. Proactivity (have your opinion and passion!) 2. Compliance (follow your company rules) 3. Creativity (think your are the best!) 4. Integrity (respect and collaborate with others) 5. Toughness for accepting those hard things!

I am on the way… Find the treasure in DevRel world!

Thank you.