184 episodes
Fireside with Voxgig Richard Rodger: Voxgig CEO, founder and author
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This DevRel focused podcast allows entrepreneur, author and coder Richard Rodger to introduce you to interesting leaders and experienced professionals in the tech community. Richard and his guests chat not just about their current work or latest trend, but also about their experiences, good and bad, throughout their career. DevRel requires so many different skills and you can come to it from so many routes, that this podcast has featured conference creators, entrepreneurs, open source maintainers, developer advocates and community managers. Join us to learn about just how varied DevRel can be and get ideas to expand your work, impact and community.
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Episode 184 Jake Ward Co-Founder and CEO of Data Protocol
Today we’re speaking to Jake Ward, Co-Founder and CEO of Data Protocol. Data Protocol is a developer engagement and support platform that hosts and produces high quality video content to help companies effectively communicate to developers.
We all know that interactive and video content has the power to teach and engage people in a way that written documentation struggles with, and this reality is what has formed the basis for Jake and his team to go about making video content accessible for everyone. Beyond that, it reduces the need for individuals to go digging through Youtube videos from 2009 to find the resources they need to use a service.
Jake also chats with us about the bigger DevRel picture. Can the recent divestment in DevRel be attributed perhaps to its overlap with marketing as a whole? And if measurement is the key to securing our future, are we approaching it with the right strategy?
On empathy, Jake stresses that it’s hard to see empathy standards held up while DevRel sits under the marketing umbrella, again raising the question of whether that umbrella is quite the right place for it.
Reach out to Jake here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobmward/
Check out Data Protocol here: https://dataprotocol.com/
Find out more and listen to previous podcasts here: https://www.voxgig.com/podcast
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Episode 183 Maryrose Lyons, Founder of AI Institute
AI and LLMs specifically have revolutionised the world of marketing. But will the revolution be restricted to the workplace, or should we start preparing our techpocalypse survival bunkers now? Today’s wonderful guest, Maryrose Lyons, doesn't think we’re quite there yet.
Maryrose is the Founder of AI Institute, and she joins us for a chat about her journey, the rise of marketing and how AI can free up time for us to spend being a bit more human.
AI Institute is Maryrose’s brainchild, and their goal is to make AI accessible to specific business people looking to incorporate it into their work practices. What we love about this model is the cohort-based element to it. Marketing people get a chance to learn from marketers, lawyers from lawyers, etc.
Before her current venture, Maryrose spent many years as a successful marketer, and she chats to us about how marketing has changed over the years, and how an increasingly imbalanced playing field means that unfortunately, formulas have become important than creativity for the little guy.
Reach out to Maryrose here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryroselyons-aispeaker/
Check out AI Institute here: https://www.instituteofaistudies.com/about-ai-institute
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Episode 182 David Tuite, Founder of Roadie
We all have that one piece of information that is absolutely key to us doing our jobs. Yet for many of us, accessing this piece of information involves manually searching a keyword in either your email or a slack channel to find the one message from 2 years ago where it was mentioned. Today’s guest is here to let us know that there actually might be a slightly better way of internally relaying information.
David Tuite is the Founder of Roadie, a Backstage based hosting and services platform that helps developers in large organisations answer basic questions about the software being used within the teams around them.
David’s inspiration with Roadie is clear, as he himself had the experience of working within a large company, and struggling to explain what the teams around him were doing.
According to David, many companies - even those with hundreds of employees, are still using ever-inflating spreadsheets to pass information internally. This imperfect system inevitably leads to hours of time slack-scrolling, attempting to figure what the hell any of it means.
But as it turns out, David discovered that if you make it really easy for your software engineers to write code, they’ll write a lot more code! Additionally, he takes us through the history of Backstage, and its journey from internal service to open source.
Reach out to David here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidtuite/
Check out Roadie here: https://roadie.io/
Find out more and listen to previous podcasts here: https://www.voxgig.com/podcast
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Episode 181 Chad Whitacre, Head of open Source at Sentry
Today, we’re chatting with the head of Open Source at Sentry, Chad Whitacre. Everyone knows that once a startup begins to make the move from garage band to stadium tour, they’re going to need some investors. But how do we bridge the gap between them?
Chad’s background as a developer has undoubtedly contributed to his talent for communicating with developers in his current role. But beyond that, he and the whole Sentry team have slightly bigger ambitions in mind for the future.
They have begun work on something they call the Open Source Pledge, and Chad breaks down for us exactly what this entails, and how it will incentivise organisations to prioritise contributing to the open source community in the same way they prioritise profits.
He also takes us through the history of Sentry, and how their roots in the open source community have cemented their commitment to ensuring its continued survival. If you’re passionate about open source, and seeing maintainers get their dues, then you’ll want to hear this.
Reach out to Chad here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chadwhitacre/
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Episode 180 Laura Vass, Co-Founder of Pronovix and Host of API The Docs
Awards are often maligned for being more concerned with who you know, rather than what you know. But can developer awards be an outlier in the field? According to Laura Vass, our guest on today's episode, they absolutely can.
Laura is the Co-Founder of Pronovix, an open source developer portal. She is also one of the organisers of the DevPortal awards. She joins us today to chat about setting up and running an industry award, and how her own sensitivities to others has been an asset in navigating different personalities in the space.
As well as all of the above, Laura is the host of the podcast API The Docs, leaving us in awe of how she has had any time to chat to us about her many pursuits.
On Pronovix, she tells us about their start as a self-organising company, before it had become trendy, and how they are navigating the transition to a more organised structure amid their increased growth.
Reach out to Laura here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauravass/
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Episode 179 Ryan Donovan Senior Content Marketer at Stack Overflow
We’ve got an episode for our writers out there today! Ryan Donovan joins us to discuss his 15 years of experience in technical writing, and just how that experience is serving him in his current role - senior content marketer at Stack Overflow.
One thing to know about Ryan is that he is a stickler for getting technical details right, a great quality to have in a technical writer. He even stays away from audience suggestions for topics, as he is careful to always be confident and accurate in his writing. He hosts a podcast under Stack Overflow, as well as writing their newsletter.
As Richard acknowledges, you may need a technical mind to master computer science, but for a technical writer, a willingness to learn anything and everything might be a more apt skill.
Ryan discusses the benefits of being your own harcore tester, treating your own technical writing as if you’ve never seen it before. If you can’t follow your own writing, then you can be pretty sure no one else will either! This a wonderful, writing-focused episode, we hope you enjoy it.
Reach out to Ryan here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-donovan-1477b64/
Find out more and listen to previous podcasts here: https://www.voxgig.com/podcast
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