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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.

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.

    Episode 163 Christos Gkoros, API Designer at Postman

    Episode 163 Christos Gkoros, API Designer at Postman

    Who said building robust, production grade APIs had to be hard? As we hope for all technology, the creation and design of APIs has only become easier and more accessible over time. This is due in part to today’s wonderful guest, Christos Gkoros, and his work at Postman as an API designer.

    Christos comes from a software engineering background and he speaks to us about his journey to his current role. As it turns out, API Designer isn’t just his job description, it’s his job title, something he acknowledges as slightly unusual. What it means is that his major focus is applying a streamlined process when it comes to API design, and conducting user research that can be applied in real time.

    Postman is an API platform that helps its users to create, test and use APIs, and as a frequent user of Postman’s services, Christos jumped at the opportunity to join their team. He breaks down how they support developers at all stages of the API life cycle, from conception to design, to testing.

    Christos takes us through some common API pitfalls, both in design and other areas of creation. Namely, the murky territory of competing versions of SDKs, and the chaos that can ensue when trying to get them to cooperate with your shiny new API. To top it off, Christos discusses his role as organiser of the API Athens Meetup, proving that, on this podcast, DevRel is never too far away.


    Reach out to Christos here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christos-gkoros/

    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

    • 31 min
    Episode 162 Taariq Lewis (repeat) Founder and CEO at Volume Finance

    Episode 162 Taariq Lewis (repeat) Founder and CEO at Volume Finance

    For today's episode, we're looking back to September of last year, when Richard spoke to Taariq Lewis of Volume Finance. Let's refresh ourselves on the activity within the Blockchain landscape from a true industry insider.

    Taariq gave Richard work when Richard needed it many years ago. They’ve each gone on and had several start ups and overcome lots of entrepreneurial hurdles since then, but that core decency informs not only this episode but Taariq and Richard’s philosophy about hiring and people. As Taariq put it about his previous and current ventures, “if we don’t make it, my team will make it.”.

    And what about that team? What does it do? Well, Volume.finance started life as a consultancy to help blockchain companies get their products to market. Now, Volume Finance is the main developer on Paloma, a blockchain. So where does the DevRel come in? Well, everywhere. Taariq is very open about the challenges he and others in the Blockchain and crypto space face. For Taariq, he uses DevRel to help developers navigate the “non-stop new” and choose quality, well funded projects on which to work. Taariq and Volume spend time building credibility and trust with their community. It’s not easy, but it works and is worthwhile.

    This episode is important because it exposes the reality that there are decent people working in Blockchain, helping this decentralised, distributed computing become more relevant to more people and businesses - even boring insurance companies!

    Reach out to Taariq here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taariq/

    https://github.com/palomachain
    https://volume.finance/

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    Episode 161 Tim Berglund, Vice President of Developer Relations at StarTree

    Episode 161 Tim Berglund, Vice President of Developer Relations at StarTree

    “So you’re telling me that a DevRel’s job is more than just posting funny tweets and partying at conferences?”

    Yes. Yes we are.

    And so is our guest on today’s episode - Tim Berglund. Tim is the Vice President of Developer Relations at Star Tree, and he breaks down for us what DevRel means to him, and how he counteracts people’s misconceptions about the role.

    In today’s world, it’s as difficult as ever for a DevRel to describe their job, but Tim gives it a go on this episode of the podcast. What’s important to know is that a DevRel’s job should leave room for “fun” stuff. The whole reason the role benefits a company is that it gives a member of the team the time and space to explore new, creative ways of doing things and achieving goals. A DevRel that wasn’t having at least a little bit of fun wouldn't be doing a very good job!

    Though after the play hard, comes the work hard. And for DevRels that often comes in the form of justifying your own existence. Tim explains that DevRel will never be like marketing, where webinars and dinners can lead to a phone call the next day - easy to track, right? DevRel is a little more complicated than that. You might not know who’s on the other side of your video, or blog post, and might never be able to track their journey from interacting with your content, to becoming a customer years down the line.

    So in the meantime, you're left with making general measurements and collecting testimonies, that while helpful, could be much improved upon as a system.



    Reach out to Tim here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tlberglund/

    Listen to Tim’s Podcast - ‘Real Time Analytics’ here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/real-time-analytics-with-tim-berglund/id1680445905

    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

    • 42 min
    Episode 160, Sebastian Witalec (repeat), Head of DevRel at Weaviate

    Episode 160, Sebastian Witalec (repeat), Head of DevRel at Weaviate

    For this this episode, we're revisiting our chat with Sebastian Witalec from Weaviate. Sebastian spoke to us last year about his work at the company and his role as head of DevRel.

    Weaviate is rather popular in the AI space. It's an open source vector database that allows you to store data and vector embeddings from machine learning models. It's similar to putting information on an XY plane. Similar data points will have similar coordinates. This makes it easier to organise and use your data. We won't get too technical in this description, but safe to say Richard ensures that all the nerdy questions are answered during the episode.

    So Weaviate is a database; does this mean it's similar to the document stores of fifteen years ago? Well funnily enough, Sebastian's previous role to this one was DevRel at MongoDB. A year and a half ago, he met the CEO of Weaviate and had that lightbulb moment. He knew that this was a brand new way of doing data storage. So he jumped to Weaviate, and sure enough, a year and a half later, vector databases are all anyone is talking about, and Sebastian gets to be at the forefront of it. One of the most important things to Weaviate, and Sebastian personally, is joy. They want to not only create with it, but for people to experience it when they use Weaviate to build. They want their developers to take joy in their work and they believe that their wider community should be just as important as their customers.

    This is a really special perspective to have, and we were so glad Sebastian decided to join us for this discussion.


    Reach out to Sebastian here: https://dk.linkedin.com/in/sebawita

    Check out Weaviate’s services here:‍ https://weaviate.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

    • 42 min
    Episode 159 Nolan Di Mare Sullivan, Developer Relations at Speakeasy

    Episode 159 Nolan Di Mare Sullivan, Developer Relations at Speakeasy

    Imagine this scenario. You’ve created a brilliant, well functioning API. Sure, there’s a few minor issues here and there but it works the way it’s supposed to. Or so you thought until, for the first time in a while, you decided to use it yourself. Lo and behold, not only does it not work, the documentation is a total mess. Well today’s guest Nolan Sullivan doesn’t have to imagine it - he’s seen it more than a few times!

    Nolan is the sole DevRel of Speakeasy, a company making the integration of APIs go from grating, to seamless. They’re all about making APIs easy to create and consume, and while they’ve started on the consumption end, their long term goal is to create a full tool chain for creating and consuming APIs.

    Nolan speaks to us about testing, and how they’ve begun to notice an interesting behaviour in their users. When developers start building SDKs, and they use their own APIs, they very quickly become confronted with the shortcomings of their own creations. It seems obvious, but sometimes you really do have to be on the other side of the user experience to find the flaws.

    This episode continues our API series on the podcast and includes some fascinating insights and advice - including Nolan’s observation that integrating your API should be the easy part of someone’s to-do list - not the hardest.


    Reach out to Nolan here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nolan-dm-sullivan-010/

    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

    • 28 min
    Episode 158 Francisco Picolini, Open Source Community Manager at OpenNebula

    Episode 158 Francisco Picolini, Open Source Community Manager at OpenNebula

    We’re delighted to have Francisco Picolini on the Fireside with Voxgig podcast. Francisco is the open source community manager at OpenNebula and he joins us to speak all about his role, and shed some light on what it means to spread the word on open source. Of course we’re all converts, but how do things play out with those who aren't?

    Francisco speaks about how OpenNebula focuses on enterprise clients, but that doesn’t mean you can’t engage as an individual. What it does mean is that Francisco’s role looks slightly different from other community managers. He can’t rely on that passionate section of users to grow the scope of the company or create content so most of that work falls to him.

    It was wonderful to have Francisco on the podcast, and we know his insights will be incredibly valuable.


    Reach out to Francisco here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francjp/

    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

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