The Reconfigured Podcast technolaaji

Today's episode is with Liz Acosta, Developer Advocate at Skyflow. We have discussed several topics from how to get into developer advocacy, getting into a bootcamp from a non-tech background, and much more.



00:00 Intro

00:42 Liz's introduction

01:49 Liz's current position at Skyflow

03:50 What Skyflow offers

05:44 Use case of handling something on your own versus using a managed service

10:54 Role of a developer advocate

16:07 Advocating a product based on needs

21:28 Authenticity when advocating for a product and knowing your audience

28:01 Liz tells Mohamad that he would be a great developer advocate

29:11 How to get into developer advocacy when not being comfortable around people

34:07 Using developer advocacy as a way to get a job while writing code as a hobby

39:52 Her experience at Twilio working as a software developer after joining a coding bootcamp + Twilio's apprenticeship program called "Hatch"

44:44 Current employment conditions for people starting out

48:25 Coding bootcamps taking advantage of non technical people who are trying to get a tech job

57:18 Companies hiring bootcamp grades but on lower conditions to fit their needs

01:03:27 Personal Experience with coding bootcamps

01:08:57 Shifting from Software development towards Developer Advocacy

01:15:48 Neo-divergence and ADHD affects on learning

01:22:14 Possibility of a career change in the future where Liz considered the idea of becoming a snowboard instructor

01:25:25 Sean's introduction of Liz from her being a dog-walker towards becoming a developer advocate + not working in the film industry

01:31:39 Liz's experience being a cancer survivor

01:40:09 General mental health question

01:44:15 Outro



Follow us on:

Website: https://www.reconfigured.co

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/reconfiguredco

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reconfiguredco

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@reconfiguredco

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reconfiguredco

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/reconfiguredco/

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   

Follow us on:  

Website: https://www.reconfigured.co  

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/reconfiguredco   

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reconfiguredco   

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@reconfiguredco     

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reconfiguredco   

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/reconfiguredco/

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  

Follow us on:  

Website: https://www.reconfigured.co  

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/reconfiguredco   

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reconfiguredco   

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@reconfiguredco     

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reconfiguredco   

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/reconfiguredco/

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



Follow us on:  

Website: https://www.reconfigured.co

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/reconfiguredco 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reconfiguredco 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ @reconfiguredco   

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reconfiguredco 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/reconfiguredco/

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

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