20 episodes
The Reconfigured Podcast technolaaji
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The Reconfigured Podcast is a show that explores the intersection of technology, culture, and society which is hosted by Mohamad Kalaaji (technolaaji). We bring professionals to talk about their extended experience or discuss about a topic that might be interesting. All of our episodes are available for free to the general public at no additional cost
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#18 - Wesley Faulkner: AWS, Community Management, DevRel
Today's episode is with Wesley Faulkner, Senior Community Manager at AWS. We have discussed several topics ranging from community management, community ops, becoming a devrel, and much more!
(0:00) Podcast intro
(0:41) Wesley's intro
(1:19) Being a 1st generation American
(3:33) Role of a Community Manager at AWS
(7:36) Being a board member at The Experience Firm
(11:01) Head of Community at SingleStore
(13:06) Fostering internal communities within a company
(19:44) Developer advocacy in a startup and corporate (IBM and Dailyco)
(23:47) MongoDB Community Management
(26:12) CommunityOps: operations for maintaining a community
(30:32) Instructions to adopt CommunityOps in your company
(37:29) Does having marketing and social media skills help in devrel?
(40:26) The rise of Slack over Atlassian HipChat while Wesley was working at Atlassian
(46:07) Managing different roles at AMD
(49:51) Discovering what you love and finding your outlet of joy
(51:53) Interesting references and ChatGPT
(57:07) Using ChatGPT for DevRel
(1:02:54) Running for 2016 City Council in Austin Texas
(1:08:35) What to recommend for DevRel based on Wesley's 20 years experience in tech
(1:13:38) Shifting careers
(1:17:53) Certifications for DevRel
(1:15:39) Mental health question
(1:23:35) Outro
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#17 - Tiffany Jachja: Engineering Management, Career Coaching
Today's episode is with Tiffany Jachja, Engineering Manager at Vox News and Career Success Coach at Correlation One. We have discussed the following:
- What is the role of a Career Success Coach
- What is the role of an Engineering Manager
- Difference between Engineering Manager and other roles like Tech Lead
- The role and responsibilities of being hired as a consultant
- Hierarchies within companies and how roles are structured
- and much more
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#16 - Karl Hughes: Draft.dev, Writing, CTO, Content Marketing
Today's episode is with Karl Hughes, Founder and CEO of Draft.dev. We have discussed the following:
- What Draft provide
- Marketing content with a content marketing engine
- His adventures of being a CTO
- Difference between Tech Lead and Head of Engineering
- The feeling of being the first employee twice in two different startups
- and much more
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Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/reconfiguredco
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reconfiguredco
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Podcast rebranding + announcement of two projects
This episode is not a guest episode, it is just an announcement about the rebranding of the podcast (nothing major, it became part of a project) plus the announcement of two projects that I am working on which is the "Reconfigured" branding and my own startup that I am going to launch in the future
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#15 - Alexandra-Irina Nicolae: Product Management, Ideas, Axel Springer
Today's episode is with Alexandra-Irina Nicolae, Senior Product Owner at Axel Springer. We have discussed the following:
- What Axel Springer is
- What Axel Springer offers
- What is Product Ownership
- Her shift from English and History and Academia towards Product Management as Product Owner
- The Ideas Engineering Division at Axel Springer
- The Ideas Council Initiative at Axel Springer
- and much more
Video version: https://youtu.be/aBuWOsBG9lU
Audio version: https://www.reconfigured.stream -
#14 - Virginia Zuloaga: Digital Marketing, B2B, Mentoring
Today's episode is with Virginia Zuloaga, Founder of Brieffin Consulting and Co-Founder of CreaGeen. We have discussed the following topics:
- Being a Career Mentor at Westminster University
- What Brieffin offer when it comes to digital marketing
- How Virginia cooperate with her co-founder digitally while she never met her co-founder in person
- Setbacks of digital marketing
- and much more
Video version: https://youtu.be/C67vuYupXXc
Audio version: https://www.reconfigured.stream