Welcome To The Voxgig Podcast

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

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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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Thorsten Schaeff

Dev Rel

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Thorsten Schaeff

In this episode, we’re drilling more into the vocational aspect of DevRel, with our guest Thorsten Schaeff. Thor has recently become the Developer Experience Engineer at ElevenLabs, an AI Audio research and deployment company.

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.

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.

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.

Julia Furst Morgado

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.

Courtney Stanley

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.

Martin Woodward

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.

Colm Doyle

Motivation, Advocacy, and Leadership are the three themes for this week’s #DevRel podcast. This time around, 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.

PJ Hagerty

Be warned: this podcast contains kindness and care and a decent description of how Guns&Roses are a guide for startups! PJ is a developer, writer, speaker, musician, and Community Advocate.

Andrew Grill

This week, we decided to revive the 2018 podcast with Andrew Grill as we bring up public speaking, the rough journey of becoming a public speaker and such. If you are in DevRel you are probably a public speaker or want to be one.

John Lynch

When we talk about Developer Relations, we often talk about the three Cs: Code, Community, and Content. This week's podcast talk makes a turn at bringing those three together.

Vicky Twomey-Lee

Vicky Twomey-Lee

Listen to Vicky Twomey-Lee’s great description of her patient and committed community building in the world of Python and beyond. A how-to guide on building a community and successful event creation! Spoiler alert: it takes work, commitment and patience. You need community BEFORE you have an event!

Alvin Bryan

You're a developer, but you feel you need a change of role. Well you've come to the right podcast! In this episode we talk to Alvin Bryan, Developer Advocate at Contentful and a coach at Codebar, a really interesting initiative to help people learning to code and starting out in various languages.

Joan Mulvihill

Richard speaks to Joan Mulvihill, Digitalisation & Sustainability Lead at Siemens. This conversation is particularly relevant to CEOs and business leaders feeling under pressure to deliver a digital transformation in their organisations.

Daniel Bryant

Daniel Bryant is the Head of Dev Rel at Ambassador Labs. In this fast paced conversation, Richard and Daniel discuss several aspects of developer relations and developer advocacy. From changing attitudes to swag through to the art of positioning (hat tip to April Dunford).

Suze Shardlow

Suze offers great insight in to the relationship between sales, DevRel and how you have to be careful in your organisation not to position DevRel as just another part of the sales funnel because nothing turns off developers and damages a community of developers as trying to sell to them directly!

Public Speaking