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.

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Thorsten Schaeff

Dev Rel

Episode

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NEW RELEASE

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.

Matteo Collina returns

Matteo Collina returns

Our guest today is none other than the wonderful Matteo Collina. Matteo is a returning guest on the podcast, and we are so excited to catch up with him. There's a lot of ground to cover here, including philosophy, the highs and lows of being a maintainer, and the world of TypeScript.

Alvin Bryan returns

Alvin Bryan returns

Today we welcome back Alvin Bryan to the Fireside with Voxgig podcast! Alvin Bryan joined us over a year and a half ago. Alvin is the Developer Advocate at Unleash, and he joins us for another chat about Developer relations, meetups and open source.

Joe Pettersson (repeat)

Joe Pettersson (repeat)

Joe Pettersson joined the podcast last year to talk all things devrel at banked.com. Banked is a global payments network, and if you’ve ever tried to order anything online, you’ll know that the payments systems used by various websites are far from perfect. Banked is on a mission to fix that.

Robert Kaminski (repeat)

Robert Kaminski (repeat)

Today, we're revisiting this chat we had with Robert Kaminski from last year, where he talked us through the practice of positioning.

Jason St-Cyr

After the excitement of our 200th episode earlier this week, it’s back to our regularly scheduled programming here at Fireside. And what’s become regular for us, along with seemingly the whole world, are discussions of AI and the current and potential consequences of its use.

Steven Coochin

It’s episode TWO HUNDRED! And what a two hundred episodes they’ve been, from public speaking, to Developer Advocacy, to our recent focus on the API space, it’s been an incredible journey, and we want to thank you, our listeners above all, for sticking with us, and inspiring us to stay curious.

Louise Ogilvy (repeat)

Louise Ogilvy (repeat)

Continuing our commitment to bring you voices rom across the DevRel ecosystem, we'd like to take a look back at Richard's talk with Louise Ogilvy, a recruitment specialist for all things developer related, from July of 2023.

Furkan Karayel (repeat)

Furkan Karayel (repeat)

Diversity and inclusion have been firmly in the “could do better” section of The tech industry’s report card for quite a few years now. But in this episode from November of last year, Furkan Karayel is determined to change that.

Jock Busuttil

We're joined once again by Jock Busuttil, for an update on his work at Product People, and to gain his thoughts on the wider product managing space (and why Product Management is starting to look more and more like product marketing).

Rory Madden (repeat)

Rory Madden (repeat)

Rory Madden, Co-Founder of UXDX, joined Richard on this episode of the podcast from last year, to talk us through his journey to creating one of the most dynamic, barrier-free conference series’ in tech.

Caelen King (repeat)

Caelen King (repeat)

When we relaunched the Fireside with Voxgig podcast over a year ago, Caelen King was one of our first guests and even then, it was obvious there were tech layoffs happening. But Caelen gives great advice to non-tech founders and leaders about hiring - no matter what the market dynamics may be.

Kris Jenkins

It’s been a minute since we’ve had an episode focused on public speaking, but we cannot think of a better person to bring the topic back than Kris Jenkins. Kris is a developer advocate, software developer and host of the Developer Voices podcast.

Carmen Huidobro

Carmen Huidobro

We’re back with some brand new episodes! Kicking us off in style is the wonderful Carmen Huidobro. Carmen is the Head of Developer Education at DevCraft Academy, and she’s got some amazing insights into everything from the philosophy of language and learning, to the pros and cons of being a “general

Maria Ashby (repeat)

Maria Ashby (repeat)

Back in the days of an early version of Voxgig, Richard and the team got a crash course in Kubernetes which left more questions than answers. If Maria's work with Kubeshop had been around then, that might not have been the case.

Chris Chinchilla (repeat)

Chris Chinchilla (repeat)

Technical writing is an essential element of countless products and services. So why is appreciation of it on the decline? Our guest, Chris Ward (or Chris Chinchilla as you may know him), is a talented writer. Not just of technical content, but also of fiction and music!

Public Speaking