devrel

As time goes on I'm more and more convinced that it takes a certain kind of person to do DevRel work. Apart from skillsets such as communication, writing, or marketing, to be a good DevReal you actually have to give a damn about your users and their experience with the product. It's way too easy as an engineer to dismiss someone's complaint because you think you're right. Most engineers aren't even using the final product on a regular basis and forget the context people exist in. @kyletut from the first day said that since I talk to the people, I have to keep the company from falling into fiction, a narrative that says "no we're ok the users are wrong." That's the complacency that will kill your company. 

TLDR: I SPEAK FOR THE DEVELOPERS

Everyone is from somewhere. Cofounder and CEO of Pinata. https://www.pinata.cloud/

DX Engineer | Head of Developer Relations at /pinata | Building orbiter.host | stevedylan.dev/links | opinions are my own

Is the fiction in the room with us right now?

i recognize this every time i run orbiter deploy on my command line

totally agree, empathy and advocating for devs above all >