Best techevangelist Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 179 Ryan Donovan Senior Content Marketer at Stack Overflow 32:02

2h ago32:02

32:02

We’ve got an episode for our writers out there today! Ryan Donovan joins us to discuss his 15 years of experience in technical writing, and just how that experience is serving him in his current role - senior content marketer at Stack Overflow. One thing to know about Ryan is that he is a stickler for getting technical details right, a great qualit…

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Episode 178 Sandy Dunlop, Mythology Expert & Brand Identity Consultant (Repeat) 36:24

42m ago36:24

36:24

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! Sandy Dunlop is a mythology expert and brand identity consultant. He helps brands to define their identity with the help of ancient myths and legends. In his last appearance on the podcast, …

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Episode 177 Tun Shwe, VP of data and DevRel at Quix 34:52

9d ago34:52

34:52

Today we’re speaking to Tun Shwe. Tun is the VP of data/DevRel at Quix, and he came on to chat to us about Quix’s work creating real time data developer tools and he also gives us an insight as to his experience working at a completely Python focused company. Catering to only one programming language may sound like a dream (especially to those runn…

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Episode 176 Stephanie Prenderville Founder and Talent Development Director 32:22

21h ago32:22

32:22

Stephanie Prenderville is here to tell us why and how generative AI is on its way to making us more human than ever. Stephanie is a talent development director and Founder of People, Strategy and Change consulting. Stephanie’s curiosity, and desire to understand others has taken her across so many industries, but she’s here to tell us about the wor…

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Episode 175, Julie Hubschman, Head of Developer APIs at FIS 39:05

9d ago39:05

39:05

We’re taking a deeper look inward on this episode of the podcast, with today’s wonderful guest, Julie Hubschman. Julie is the head of developer APIs at FIS. If you haven’t heard of FIS, don’t worry, because if you’ve ever swiped a credit card, then at least you’ve unknowingly used their services. Julie joins us for an introspective discussion on th…

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Episode 174, Veronica Breene, CEO and Founder of Vesta Insights 25:41

4d ago25:41

25:41

Today, we’re taking a step across the border between DevRel and AI, and seeing what the AI side of things has to offer. Our guest is Veronica Breene, CEO and Founder of Vesta Insights. Vesta is an AI startup looking to increase the availability of credit for all. Veronica began working on the company under her phD in explainable AI, and when she wa…

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Episode 173, Jack Bridger, Engineer and Host of Scaling DevTools 33:53

2h ago33:53

33:53

If there’s one thing to take away from this episode of Fireside, it’s this: do the scary thing. The proponent of this message is none other than Jack Bridger, fellow podcast host of ‘Scaling Devtools’. This is a great one for anyone thinking of getting into podcasting, whether independently or under a company umbrella! Jack’s background is in sales…

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Episode 172, Brian Rinaldi, Developer Experience Engineer at LaunchDarkly 33:35

22d ago33:35

33:35

Building an audience is always a bit of a paradox for DevRels. You have a genuine desire to foster a community, so you begin creating content. Yet the more effort you put into that content, the less it seems to draw people in. A balance between effort and authenticity must be struck in order to grow - and today’s guest, Brian Rinaldi has managed to…

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Episode 171, Jorge Barrachina Gutiérrez, DevRel, Engineer and Developer Advocate 28:44

6d ago28:44

28:44

Jorge Barrachina Gutiérrez may be an engineer by official title, but he hasn’t let those kinds of labels restrict him in his career, and neither should you. Jorge is our wonderful guest today on the podcast, and we’re delighted to have him in for a chat about authorship, adaptability and his work with AI. Jorge’s book, ‘DevRel Puzzle’ gives a hefty…

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Episode 170 Christos Gkoros (repeat) API Designer at Postman 31:35

11d ago31:35

31:35

Who said building robust, production grade APIs had to be hard? As we hope for all technology, the creation and design of APIs has only become easier and more accessible over time. This is due in part to today’s wonderful guest, Christos Gkoros, and his work at Postman as an API designer. Christos comes from a software engineering background and he…

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Episode 169 Caroline Lewko, Co-Founder of DevRel.Agency 32:07

1M ago32:07

32:07

Caroline Lewko has an immense wealth of knowledge and experience in Developer Relations, to the extent where she’s been involved in codifying some of the now ubiquitous aspects of it, including the evolution of its name! Caroline is the co-founder of DevRel.Agency and according to her, she’s been doing community work pretty much since the day she w…

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Episode 168 Sean Falconer, Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow 37:38

20d ago37:38

37:38

Today, we're sitting down to chat with Sean Falconer. Sean is the head of marketing and developer relations at Skyflow, and he brings us a fascinating inside look at the growing field of data protection. Skyflow's main selling point is their data privacy vaults, used in a similar way to an identity protector, but they've taken this concept from an …

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Episode 167 Andrew Grill (repeat) Futurist, Speaker and Author of Digitally Curious 27:38

24d ago27:38

27:38

Today, we're taking a look back at our 100th episode with Andrew Grill. We spoke to him back in June of last year all about Digital Curiosity, Andrew’s book, which came out at the end of 2023. We here are at the top of the hype cycle on AI (Generative AI in particular) it is hype that is prompting and causing government action. This is now mainstre…

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Episode 166 Diana Walsh, Principal Customer Success Manager at HubSpot 30:29

27d ago30:29

30:29

According to today’s guest, Diana Walsh, Developer Relations, at times, does actually require some real work. Of course most of us know this, but it helps to publicise this fact occasionally. Diana is the principal Customer Success Manager at Hubspot, and she joins us for a chat about the cross-functionality of DevRel. Diana and her teams help Hubs…

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Episode 165 Salma Alam-Naylor (repeat), Web Developer & Livestreamer 42:53

1M ago42:53

42:53

Today, we're throwing back to when Richard spoke with Salma Alam-Naylor about all things content! Now had we invited Salma onto Fireside just so Richard could learn how to begin his Twitch streaming career? Potentially. Salma is a live streamer, software engineer and developer educator. She streams on Twitch under the moniker “whitep4nth3r” -she di…

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Episode 164 Mike Amundsen, Author, Speaker, Trainer 39:23

1M ago39:23

39:23

Have you ever been on the phone to a company representative and thought “You know, if only this human on the other side of the call was instead a chatbot who would be even less receptive to my problems”? Us neither. And yet the looming threat of LLMs replacing consumer facing roles continues to do just that - loom. But today's wonderful guest Mike …

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Episode 163 Christos Gkoros, API Designer at Postman 31:35

1M ago31:35

31:35

Who said building robust, production grade APIs had to be hard? As we hope for all technology, the creation and design of APIs has only become easier and more accessible over time. This is due in part to today’s wonderful guest, Christos Gkoros, and his work at Postman as an API designer. Christos comes from a software engineering background and he…

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Episode 162 Taariq Lewis (repeat) Founder and CEO at Volume Finance 42:26

1M ago42:26

42:26

For today's episode, we're looking back to September of last year, when Richard spoke to Taariq Lewis of Volume Finance. Let's refresh ourselves on the activity within the Blockchain landscape from a true industry insider. Taariq gave Richard work when Richard needed it many years ago. They’ve each gone on and had several start ups and overcome lot…

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Episode 161 Tim Berglund, Vice President of Developer Relations at StarTree 42:45

2M ago42:45

42:45

“So you’re telling me that a DevRel’s job is more than just posting funny tweets and partying at conferences?” Yes. Yes we are. And so is our guest on today’s episode - Tim Berglund. Tim is the Vice President of Developer Relations at Star Tree, and he breaks down for us what DevRel means to him, and how he counteracts people’s misconceptions about…

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Episode 160, Sebastian Witalec (repeat), Head of DevRel at Weaviate 42:36

2M ago42:36

42:36

For this this episode, we're revisiting our chat with Sebastian Witalec from Weaviate. Sebastian spoke to us last year about his work at the company and his role as head of DevRel. Weaviate 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. It's si…

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Episode 159 Nolan Di Mare Sullivan, Developer Relations at Speakeasy 28:47

2M ago28:47

28:47

Imagine this scenario. You’ve created a brilliant, well functioning API. Sure, there’s a few minor issues here and there but it works the way it’s supposed to. Or so you thought until, for the first time in a while, you decided to use it yourself. Lo and behold, not only does it not work, the documentation is a total mess. Well today’s guest Nolan …

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Episode 158 Francisco Picolini, Open Source Community Manager at OpenNebula 34:31

2M ago34:31

34:31

We’re delighted to have Francisco Picolini on the Fireside with Voxgig podcast. Francisco is the open source community manager at OpenNebula and he joins us to speak all about his role, and shed some light on what it means to spread the word on open source. Of course we’re all converts, but how do things play out with those who aren't? Francisco sp…

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Episode 157, Liz Acosta, Developer Content Marketing Manager for Streamlit 34:15

2M ago34:15

34:15

The wonderful Liz Acosta joins us on this episode of the podcast for a slightly philosophical chat on community, the different iterations of DevRel, and why we as humans will always gravitate to the things we perceive as “real”. Liz is the new Developer Content Marketing Manager for Streamlit at Snowflake, and this provides us with a wonderful oppo…

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Episode 156 Jason St-Cyr, Developer Relations leader at Sitecore 42:27

2M ago42:27

42:27

Jason St-Cyr is our guest on this episode of the fireside with voxgig podcast. Jason is the Developer Relations leader at Sitecore, an end-to-end composable digital experience platform, that allows brands to better connect with their customers. Jason gave us an excellent look into what it looks like when a talented DevRel leader is truly supported …

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Episode 155 Frank Kilcommins, Principal API Tech Evangelist at SmartBear 38:55

3M ago38:55

38:55

If you’re in any way curious about the intersection between APIs and AI, and what that might be shaping up to look like, then we’re delighted to let you know that this episode’s guest is the perfect person to shed light on that very topic. Frank is the Principal API Tech Evangelist for SmartBear, where they deliver tools for application performance…

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Episode 154, José Haro Peralta, Author of Microservice APIs 35:01

2M ago35:01

35:01

If you're an API enthusiast, then we can only imagine that our last few episodes have been a dream come true. Well the dream just got a whole lot better, as this episode's guest is none other than José Haro Peralta, author of Microservice APIs. José is an independent consultant based in London, and he joins us to explain all about his process in he…

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Episode 153 David Biesack, Chief API Officer at Apiture 35:26

3M ago35:26

35:26

If you enjoyed the lengthy API discussion last week, then this episode will be no different. We’re speaking to David Biesack, Chief API Officer at Apiture, where they’re using efficient solutions to hold together a network of their banking APIs for a variety of financial institutions. As you can imagine, nearly a hundred customers will have hugely …

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Episode 152 Bill Doerrfeld, Editor In Chief At Nordic APIs 31:32

3M ago31:32

31:32

We've probably all heard of urban sprawl, right? The phenomenon where a city expands further and further into the surrounding areas until the final product becomes one that is impossible to control and monitor. Well this episode’s guest, Bill Doerrfeld is here to tell us about how the same principle affects APIs in the aptly named arrival of “API s…

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Episode 151 James Higginbotham, Executive API Consultant at LaunchAny 35:51

3M ago35:51

35:51

We’re off to the mountains today on this episode of the Fireside with Voxgig podcast, as today’s guest, James Higginbotham calls in from Colorado. James is an executive API consultant with LaunchAny, a consulting firm that specialises in digital transformation through APIs. James takes us through the massive task of working with extremely large dev…

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Episode 150 Tara Walton, Test Automation Developer and Community Builder 31:37

3M ago31:37

31:37

On this podcast, we’re always a fan of our guests, but it’s not as often that our guest is a fan of us! This episode, we’re speaking to Tara Walton, herself a listener of the Fireside podcast. Tara is a test automation developer and a community builder, and she joins us to talk about how being a jack of all trades means Developer Advocacy might jus…

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Episode 149 James Cook, Microsoft MVP and Director of DevOps at Coyote Software 32:35

3M ago32:35

32:35

We’ve all heard the phrase “herding cats”, but could it be replaced by the equally apt “herding developers”? James Cook is on the podcast to let us know. James is Director of DevOps at Coyote, a PropTech SaaS provider serving the real estate sector, as well as being a certified Microsoft MVP. He joins us for a chat about his role, his outlook, and …

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Episode 148 David Cramer, Co-Founder and CTO of Sentry 41:05

4M ago41:05

41:05

We’re fortunate on the Fireside podcast to be able to speak to so many people at the top of their game, and this week's guest is no different. David Cramer is the Co-Founder and CTO of Sentry, the app monitoring platform designed to quickly help developers get to the root of code problems. David has helped bring Sentry to the top of the pile in thi…

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Episode 147 Rex St John, Founder of Taroko Technologies 49:34

4M ago49:34

49:34

This episode is a slightly futuristic one. Or potentially not futuristic? We’re talking about AI with Rex St John and he’s here to tell us why the "future” of AI is looking more and more like it will soon be the present. Rex is the Founder of Taroko Technologies and an experienced DevRel and Technical evangelist. Rex takes us through his history, f…

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Episode 146 Conor O Neill, Director of Product and Engineering at Axonista 31:02

4M ago31:02

31:02

We’ve got a familiar face on the Voxgig podcast today, if not yet to you, then to us, as we’re speaking to our host Richard’s former colleague, Conor O’Neill. Conor is the Director of Product and Engineering at Axonista, an interactive video CMS, where he’s helping them transform video from a fun accessory to a key feature of their customer’s platf…

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Episode 145 Cassandra Faris, Community Strategist and Technologist at Veeam Software 28:10

4M ago28:10

28:10

We’re continuing to kick off the new year in style with this episode’s wonderful guest, Cassandra Faris. Cassandra is a Technologist and former community manager with Veeam. You might remember that our previous guest Julia Furst Morgado is also a technologist Veeam, so we can only assume that Veeam has a well kept secret for recruiting highly talen…

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Episode 144 Andrew Maclean, Developer Relations Manager at DevCycle 33:16

4M ago33:16

33:16

Fireside with Voxgig is back! A new year means new opportunities to speak with amazing people and share their insights with you, our audience. This episode’s guest is Andrew MacLean. Andrew is the developer relations manager at DevCycle, a feature flag management platform for developers. If you’ve never heard of feature flag management, that’s prob…

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Charlie Robbins, Founder and Engineer 39:24

6M ago39:24

39:24

We’re taking a deep dive into the history of Node with this episode’s guest, Charlie Robbins. Charlie isn't just a greatly experienced engineer, who now lends his advice and consultancy skills to others - he was also one of the earliest adopters of Node, and is uniquely placed to give us a lesson not just in history, but also in the unique factors …

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Episode 142 Liran Tal Director of Developer Advocacy at Snyk 37:55

6M ago37:55

37:55

The practice of DevRel is something that can vary hugely amongst those who engage in it, so it’s always fascinating to see how different companies approach DevRel. In this episode, we’re speaking to Liran Tal, director of developer advocacy at Snyk, about how his team makes use of DevRel. Liran is a big believer in empathy, and infuses it into ever…

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Episode 141 Suze Shardlow repeat broadcast of DevRel 101 44:25

6M ago44:25

44:25

At this time of the year, evergreen trees and plants are brought indoors as we cling to reminders of freshness and hope for freshness to return in the spring. Here's an evergreen podcast episode on developer relations. Suze Shardlow is a freelancer with the strategic thinking your organisation needs if its going to develop and implement developer r…

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Episode 140 Caelen King, Market Entry & Scaling Consultant 35:06

6M ago35:06

35:06

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. So we're publishing this again for new listeners to the…

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Ciara Sheahan, Founder, Presenter, and Journalist 29:48

6M ago29:48

29:48

It’s always fun to talk about the futuristic potential of virtual reality, but it’s even more fun to talk about it with Ciara Sheahan, because she actually knows some real information about this topic. Ciara is a radio presenter, journalist and tech entrepreneur, and provides us with proof that you don’t have to be a former coder to be a founder wh…

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Episode 138 Furkan Karayel, Author of Inclusive Intelligence 34:23

6M ago34:23

34:23

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 this episode’s guest, Furkan Karayel is determined to change that. This is the second time we’ve had Furkan on the show, and we are delighted to welcome her back for an update and further insight into her endea…

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Episode 137 Aravind Putrevu, Engineer and Tech Evangelist 33:44

6M ago33:44

33:44

In this episode, we’re taking a break from our artistic stint of authors and podcast hosts, and moving back into solid DevRel territory with our guest Aravind Putrevu. Aravind is a developer advocate turned angel investor, but to leave it at just that would be a disservice. He has his fingers in many pies, including DevRel consulting, where he help…

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Episode 136 Patrick Akil, host of Beyond Coding and DevRel at Xebia 34:15

6M ago34:15

34:15

Two podcasters go head to head in this episode, as we invite Patrick Akil, host of Beyond Coding to speak with Richard about his personal journey and insights into the art of podcasting. Patrick works in the software development unit at Xebia, and he talks about how their value of knowledge sharing led to their desire to support a podcast. When he …

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Episode 135 Christina Monti Senior Technical Product Manager at PayPal 33:31

6M ago33:31

33:31

On this episode, we’re joined by developer advocate Christina Monti. Christina is the senior technical product manager for PayPal, and she brings us not just her expertise, but also an insight into why she chooses to centre empathy in her work with developers. Christina joins our list of guests from a slightly unconventional background. Christina c…

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Episode 134 Alvin Bryan Developer Advocate Contentful (Repeat) 37:43

7M ago37:43

37:43

Today we bring you a repeat of Alvin Bryan's conversation with Richard for a few reasons. Alvin is Developer Advocate with Contentful, and they came on board several months ago as sponsors of the Dublin DevRel Meetup we organise. (Join us next Wednesday, link below!). Their support of the meetup makes a lot of sense as you listen to Alvin discuss m…

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Episode 133 Marc Laventure CEO & Co founder of Scalar.com 35:09

7M ago35:09

35:09

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. Scalar is a service that allows you to document, discover and test APIs, which once agai…

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Episode 132 Kelly M, Founder of Sweet Trades, Senior Software Engineer and Data Scientist 44:56

7M ago44:56

44:56

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. So you can see why we were excited to book her in for a chat. Kelly swi…

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Episode 131 Wesley Faulkner, Podcast Co-host, Snr Community Manager AWS 39:12

7M ago39:12

39:12

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. The nuts and bolts of tech is all very interesting, but equally important to the success of DevRel is the ability to step back and take in th…

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Episode 130 Julia Furst Morgado 29:16

7M ago29:16

29:16

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. According to Julia Furst Morgado, if you work in DevR…

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