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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.

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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.

Marc Laventure

Marc Laventure is the CEO and Co-Founder of Scalar and he joins us for a chat about API documentation, startups and accessibility. He also happens to be the latest guest whose technical background originates in hardware before morphing into product development.

Kelly M

We’re joined for this episode by the wonderful Kelly M. She’s the founder and Executive Director of Sweet Trades, a non-profit focused on helping individuals land living wage jobs, a Senior Software Engineer at a fortune 100 company, and a Data Scientist at a U.S. National Lab.

Wesley Faulkner

Wesley Faulkner

On this episode of the podcast Richard speaks to Wesley Faulkner. You may have heard Wesley described as the philosopher of DevRel, and true to his moniker, he brings the deep questions with him to this chat.

Julia Furst Morgado

Julia Furst Morgado

This is a 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.

Daniel Bryant

Letting this podcast episode from last year bubble up to the surface. Daniel Bryant walks the walk of developer relations and community building and events. This includes a discussion on swag and a general enthusiasm that is both infectious and informative! Enjoy.

Niall Cusack

On this episode of the podcast we’ve got Niall Cusack, Co-Founder and CTO of Outcaster, to chat with us about the problem of ‘posting-fatigue’; having to post essentially the same messaging to a slew of social channels, and individually tracking each of them to measure engagement.

Debbie Forster

In this episode, Richard sits down with Debbie Forster, CEO of the Tech Talent Charter. Debbie is an American who has lived in England for over 30 years. Her fascinating career is full of twists and turns, from being a head teacher to her current high-profile role.

Sebastian Witalec

Sebastian Witalec

On this episode, we've got Sebastian Witalec from Weviate to chat to us about his work at the company and his role as head of DevRel. Weviate is rather popular in the AI space. It's an open source vector database that allows you to store data and vector embeddings from machine learning models.

Ethan & Simon

Today we’re joined by Ethan Lewis and Simon Cheng, CTO and DevRel of Vaunt.dev for a discussion on how their work enables individuals and companies to nurture their open source communities.

Sandy Dunlop

Don’t you just love a familiar face? We certainly do here on the Fireside with Voxgig podcast, as we’ve got another guest coming back for a catch-up interview!

Matthias Wagner

Matthias Wagner

Manifesting things in physical space – this one is for the makers! Matthias and Richard discuss the genesis of Flux.ai, created to help democratise hardware design following the example of software development.

Jono Bacon

Jono Bacon is back with us on the Voxgig podcast and we couldn't be more excited to catch up with him. An awful lot has happened since the last time we spoke to him in 2020.

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.

Public Speaking