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

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Sébastien Blanc

Dev Rel

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Sébastien Blanc

Today, we’re speaking to someone who’s been doing DevRel since before DevRel was a term anyone knew. Sébastien Blanc is the Developer Relation Engineer at Port IO, an internal developer portal that gives developers the opportunity to do all their engineering in one place.

Carter Rabasa

Carter Rabasa is Head of Developer Relations at Courier and joins Richard in this Fireside with Voxgig chat. This starts as a history of developer relations, but exposes a question, a gap; who were the devrel leaders in the API/cloud era?

Marino Wijay

Marino Wijay joins Richard to talk about operator relations, and his work for solo.io as a developer advocate. Solo helps companies unite their services into functional applications using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.

Rohit Ghumare

We’ve invited Rohit Ghumare to speak with us in this episode of the podcast, not just to ask him about his impressive Twitter (now X) following (although this will come up), but also to find out how he organises his time as a community organiser and developer advocate.

Robert Kaminski

Robert Kaminski

Co-founder of FletchPMM, Robert Kaminski is on the Fireside with Voxgig podcast this time around and I was so happy to speak with him. Robert and the team at Fletch are positioning experts.

Pavan Belagatti

Pavan Belagatti

There’s a large population of technical writers in devrel. And a big number of these technical writers don’t necessarily come from technical backgrounds. So how do they do it? In this episode, Richard has a fascinating discussion on this topic and more with developer evangelist, Pavan Belegatti.

Chris Chinchilla

Chris Chinchilla

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.

Taariq Lewis

Content warning: laugh out loud moments and irreverent attitude to “boring” insurance companies. In this episode Richard chats to a very positive blast from his past. Taariq Lewis gave Richard work when Richard needed it many years ago. They’ve each gone on and had several start ups.

Rory Madden

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

Joe Pettersson

As Joe puts it, the payments industry is big, but old-fashioned. So the question for him and the team at Banked became “how would we build Visa, or Mastercard if we started in 2023?”

Danielle Krage

Danielle Krage is back on the podcast to give us some more invaluable speaker advice. We first had Danielle on Fireside two years ago, so we’re eager to hear her thoughts on what’s changed for speakers in the last two years, and what could be coming up next.

Salma Alam Naylor

Salma Alam Naylor

Did we invite Salma onto Fireside just so Richard could learn how to begin his Twitch streaming career? Very possible! Salma Alam-Naylor is a live streamer, software engineer and developer educator. This is a warts and all account of Twitch and live streaming as Community building tools.

Maria Ashby

What is the Kubeshop accelerator? Work with the community, build and prove your product - build it and they will come, as Richard puts it! Maria explains “word of mouth” but quite rightly points out that these days, word of mouth is “to your friend in India over Slack”

Anna Redbond

Have you ever wondered what marketing people think of developers? As it turns out, it’s very positive, at least according to Anna Redbond, CMO of Flagsmith. Anna joins us to talk about the world of marketing in a technical space.

Zachariah Peterson,

Zachariah Peterson,

The first thing to know about Zach Peterson is that he’s a hardware guy. Richard is not. Can this divide be bridged by a friendly Fireside chat?

Jonathan Reimer

Jonathan Reimer

This time we welcome Jonathan Reimer to the podcast. Jonathan and Richard dive straight into his company 'crowd.dev'. This is ideal for start-up founders!

Public Speaking