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Let's talk about Developer Advocacy

Where (easily) distracted engineers go to hang out

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Agenda

• What the heck is Developer Advocacy anyway?
• A day in the life
• How Jenny got there

A slide with a bus maps

A slide you can draw on

An excuse to write a game

These have something in common

They're all written using the Firebase API. The thing I work on.

Developer Advocates help products be successful through a developer ecosystem.

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Developer advocates are software engineers who also like to

• Hack up silly demos
• Write words
• Travel around and give talks (like this one)
• Help people build cool stuff

There are no typical days

• Learning a new programming language
• Traveling to a conference in a far away land
• Teaching a workshop
• Staying up all night at a hackathon
• Collaborating with an engineer on an API design
• Pitching a book

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How I got here

• Didn't know what to do, so studied Computer Engineering
• Did a bunch of internships
• Found a real job coding
• Sold that same software
• Developer Relations became a thing
• Bounced back and fourth between software engineering and DevRel

What do I want to be when I grow up?

I still have no idea.

And that's OK.

We talked about this stuff

• There's this thing called Developer Advocacy
• A day in the life
• How Jenny got there

The End

Question time!

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