Working in Developer Relations with Kim Maida on RealTalkJS #95

Kim Maida joins John, Ward, and Dan to talk about her career in developer relations - what her journey has been like, reasons to get into dev rel, what to look for when hiring someone in developer relations, how to bring feedback from the field to your product team, and processes Kim has set up to make developer relations easier for everyone.

Working in Developer Relations

const podcast = { 
  episode: 95,
  title: 'Working in Developer Relations',
  topics: [ 
    'career', 'employment',
  ],
  guest: 'Kim Maida'
  hosts: [
    'Ward Bell', 'John Papa', 'Dan Wahlin'
  ]
};

Recording date: 2020-07-02

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Kim Maida @KimMaida

Brought to you by

• IdeaBlade

• ag-Grid

Resources:

• Gatsby
• Server side rendering in Gatsby
• SSG is Static Site Generator
• Netlify
• Static Web Sites in Azure
• Dan Wahlin's blog post on joining DevRel
• Creating Slackbots
• Valerie Kittel, excellent presentation coach
• Fluid Framework
• The Body: A guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
• GitHub repo for Template Slackbot
• Resonate by Nancy Duarte
• Nancy Duarte on Presentation

Timejumps

• 02:00 Guest introduction
• 03:23 What is Gatsby?
• 06:55 What was your career journey?
• 11:55 Dan's new role in Developer Relations
• 13:46 Reasons to get into Developer Relations
• 16:58 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 18:04 What do you look for in a person for developer relations?
• 23:49 Bringing feedback back from the field to the product team
• 31:45 What have you implemented to help your role?
• 37:50 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 39:01 Making processes easier for everyone
• 43:37 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.