• Developer Advocate, Google Cloud & Apps • Software Plumber, API guy, mix of Enterprise and Consumer • 18 years writing software, backend guy with a taste for javascript • 2 y Accenture (Notes guru), 3 y Netscape/ AOL (Servers, Portals), 5 y Sun (ecommerce, blogs, Portals, feeds, open source) • 6 years at Google, API guy (first hired, helped start the team) • Adwords, Checkout, Social, HTML5, Cloud
locations, 4 countries, 3 continents • Developer Advocates • First Google I/O • features OpenSocial, GWT, App Engine, and an Android phone demo • First DevFest APAC events
and momentum that developers just assume they’ll use our platform. • When there’s a thriving ecosystem of tools, consultants, trainers, and others that we’ve never even spoken to. • When the voice of unpaid advocates for our platform is so strong ours isn’t needed.
API design, consistency, and stability • Strategies, roadmaps, timelines • Transparency In addition to being advocates to developers, we are advocates for developers internally
the cause of another 2. one that defends or maintains a cause or proposal 3. one that supports or promotes the interests of another * Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary (http://www.merriam-webster.com)
“Then you put it together: Developer Advocate and a funny thing happens. What does that mean? At first people think that you are advocating to developers, but it is also very important to think about the other connotation. You think about being an advocate of the developer” Developer Advocate versus Technical Evangelist; When names change the tone http://almaer.com/blog/developer-advocate-versus-technical-evangelist-when-names-change-the-tone
talks • Bring these developers on stage with us • Talk about them in blog posts and tweets • Feed the stories to our PR team and press • Get them to tell the world themselves!
provide infrastructure • Developer PMs optimize: they make sure initiatives execute smoothly and efficiently • Developer PMs connect: they bring together people, resources, and ideas
programs that cut across multiple products • Developer PMs lead initiatives that have world-wide reach and leverage massive community support • They focus on programs that reach the most people with the fewest resources • They’re global - from China to Africa to Tel Aviv to Brazil, and everywhere in between!
written word as their means to educate developers • They write reference docs, articles, how-to guides, tutorials, books, and presentations • Technical writers focus on the user, making complex technology easy to understand
bang-for- the-buck by scaling out support proactively to users globally • Our most strategic developer products are only useful if developers understand how to use them
highly-scalable programs that can be run with minimal resources • Scrappy, but touches tens of thousands of developers • Work closely cross-functionally with other groups across Google
events are key to driving momentum and adoption • We share responsibility with Marketing (IO and GDD) and with the external community IO Google Developer Days DevFests and xDLs GTUG and community
Direct relationship with a Developer Advocate • Architecture recommendations • Involve you in Trusted Tester programs • Early Access to features and products • We want your feedback
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