Jeff Carpenter on Becoming a Technology Evangelist

03/12/18 • 50 min

DevRel Radio

Previous Episode

What is a Developer Advocate?

Baruch, Viktor, and Tim discuss developer advocacy and evangelism. The address these questions:

What is a developer advocate?
What is an evangelist?
Is the difference significant? Is the debate between the terms productive?
What are the core activities of the role?
How do you become a developer advocate?
- What skills are required?
- If it’s a career goal, how do you aim for it?
What do you do after you’re a developer advocate?
- Is this a one-way street?
- Can I go back to being a dev?
- Can you do this when you’re old?

Next Episode

Geertjan Wielenga on His Upcoming Book on Developer Advocacy

Geertjan is writing a book consisting of interviews with some of the world's leading developer advocates. We talk with him about how the project was conceived, his intention for the book and its future, and the experience of conducting the interviews so far. In particular, he draws our three rather Aristotelian themes: becoming a developer advocate, being a developer advocate, and the ethical issues associated with developer advocacy. Baruch digs hard into ethics, and a good time is had by all.