Welcome To The Voxgig Podcast

We talk to people in the developer community about developer relations, public speaking and community events.

Fireside with
Voxgig

Since 2018, Richard has been chatting to an international and diverse mix of speakers events organisers and software development advocates, mining for nuggets of wisdom.

Below you’ll find our current featured podcast. You can also scroll through our extensive archive. Each new podcast will be paired with a reinforcing podcast from the archive. You can find these suggestions in our accompanying newsletter.

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Alex Lakatos
Episode
96
Alex Lakatos
A two-for-one deal here! A tutorial on how international and card payments work. And then DevRel discussion on APIs and SDKs involved with Open Source projects and bringing in contributors and building the community.
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Megan Slater
Episode
95
Megan Slater
Listen closely and you’ll hear the wheels turning in Richard's brain as this conversation goes on and he gets the how to guide from Megan on community building. They get in to the weeds on community building tools!
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Tim Nolet
Episode
94
Tim Nolet
This was another enjoyable episode for Richard where he gets to talk to the Co-Founder of a service he uses, regularly and with great success! Tim Nolet is the CTO and Co-Founder of Checkly, a synthetic testing tool. Don’t worry – Tim explains synthetic in this context.
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Michiel Mulders
Episode
93
Michiel Mulders
Michiel Mulders is a wonderful example of a creative developer, driven to share knowledge and committed to quality documentation. He delivers a module on documentation and technical writing at DevRel University, free online course dedicated to Web3 DevRel.
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Sid Maestre
Episode
92
Sid Maestre
It’s possible we generated more questions than we answered in this episode. This was straight from the practice of developer relations. Sid is the VP of Developer Relations at APIMatic which has ben around about eight years but has a start-up energy.
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Chris O'Neill
Episode
91
Chris O'Neill
Richard was delighted to talk to Chris O’Neill, the first Developer Advocate at Stytch for this week’s Fireside with Voxgig podcast. Why? Well, recently Richard and the team at Voxgig had the very great pleasure of using Stytch – and it worked a dream.
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Jason St-Cyr
Episode
90
Jason St-Cyr
This episode looks at how DevRel works at very large organisations. Jason St-Cyr, Developer Relations Leader at Sitecore, one of the largest digital experience providers in the world. With such a large ecosystem, it’s no wonder that DevRel looks different here than in a SaaS start-up!
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Brian Douglas
Episode
89
Brian Douglas
OpenSauced.pizza want to understand where contributions to Open Source projects are coming from. Brian Douglas was the first official Developer Advocate in GitHub! Brian is also another example of a degree in something not computer science. With a finance degree, he taught himself to code.
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Lewis Meyers
Episode
88
Lewis Meyers
This week, Richard talks to Lewis Meyers in an open, honest and fascinating conversation about breaking in to the tech industry from a military and martial arts background. Lewis did a bootcamp, and they discuss the attitude towards bootcamps and his experience as a bootcamp student.
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Jono Bacon
Episode
87
Jono Bacon
No surprise given Jono’s heavy metal credentials, this episode starts out with a reassuring tale about a rock gig…with more people in the band than in the audience…. So as a conference speaker or community builder, remember that everyone has started out somewhere.
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Adam Christian
Episode
86
Adam Christian
Ah, documentation! Imagine a Readme where the samples you run actually work? Runable commands should become runabale – out of the box with Runme. It’s not magic, it’s the passion of Adam Christian and his team at Stateful to address the epidemic of non-maintained documentations. Richard and Adam dis
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Julia Furst Morgado
Episode
85
Julia Furst Morgado
This is another career guidance episode! Julia has a background in law, marketing and now is a successful developer relations guru. Julia generously shares her journey to DevRel in an accessible chat and with an achievable pathway. But be prepared to commit time and effort to community building.
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Courtney Stanley
Episode
84
Courtney Stanley
Courtney Stanley, a keynote speaker, MC and meeting planner, talks about why it’s important for virtual event organisers to offer people an authentic live experience online.
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Martin Woodward
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83
Martin Woodward
Fun Fact: Our guest this week is a once-developer who, believe it or not, registered Microsoft’s first Github account! Martin Woodward has been helping first Microsoft and then Github build, sustain and support their respective open-source communities.
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Colm Doyle
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82
Colm Doyle
Motivation, Advocacy, and Leadership are the three themes for this week’s #DevRel podcast. This time around in our #DevRel podcast series, Richard Rodger speaks to Colm Doyle. We bring up some big tech company names such as Microsoft, Apple, Open-air, Slack, and Facebook and zero in on what it takes to making #DevRel work.
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