Best Pronovix Podcasts (2024)

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Marino Wijay (repeat) 35:59

1h ago35:59

35:59

We'll be back next week with brand new episodes, but for today, we hope you enjoy this episode from last year, where we spoke to Marino Wijay: Here at the Voxgig podcast we’ve decided that we’re sick of talking about DevRel all the time. So we’ve decided to switch it up with something completely different for this episode - DevOps! Marino Wijay joi…

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Episode 188 Marc Laventure (repeat) CEO & Co founder of Scalar.com 35:09

2d ago35:09

35:09

Marc Laventure is the CEO and Co-Founder of Scalar and, we're looking back on the time we chatted with Marc Laventure last year, 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 t…

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Julia Furst Morgado 29:16

7d ago29:16

29:16

Today we're revisiting this career guidance episode from last year! 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 M…

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The role of documentation in a niche field - Conversation with Daria Lutchenko 1:12:13

8d ago1:12:13

1:12:13

A research-heavy field can be difficult to navigate for the layperson. In this case, documentation is an invaluable bridge connecting services and customers. In this episode, Daria Lutchenko (UP42) explains the value of concise and coherent documentation that allows providers to keep up their end of the “social contract”.…

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Episode 186 Philipp Krenn, Head of Developer Relations at Elastic 50:36

9d ago50:36

50:36

When it comes to Developer Relations, today’s guest believes the word “developer” comes first in that label for a reason. We’re speaking to Philipp Krenn, Head of DveRel and developer Advocacy at Elastic, and he’s here to chat to us about the work he and his 20 person DevRel team are currently doing. Philipp discusses the adjustment to meetups afte…

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Episode 185 Tushar Mathur Founder and CEO of tailcall 31:01

14d ago31:01

31:01

Today we're talking about bridging the gap between back end development and front end experience. Our guest is Tushar Mathur, and he's the Founder and CEO of Tailcall, an open-source platform for building GraphQL APIs on existing endpoints. As you might imagine, we take the opportunity to ask Tushar about the ever expanding API sprawl currently goi…

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‘A system is more than a sum of its parts’ - discussion with Stefan Verstraeten 58:04

16d ago58:04

58:04

How can one ensure that their business remains sustainable? What are the key principles of value-based selling? Is it possible to create a fair distribution of value? In this episode, Stefan Verstraeten (Head of Value at TomTom) discusses these questions, and explains how complexity science as a mental model can help to better understand the way th…

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Episode 184 Jake Ward Co-Founder and CEO of Data Protocol 37:59

16d ago37:59

37:59

Today we’re speaking to Jake Ward, Co-Founder and CEO of Data Protocol. Data Protocol is a developer engagement and support platform that hosts and produces high quality video content to help companies effectively communicate to developers. We all know that interactive and video content has the power to teach and engage people in a way that written…

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Episode 183 Maryrose Lyons, Founder of AI Institute 27:37

21d ago27:37

27:37

AI and LLMs specifically have revolutionised the world of marketing. But will the revolution be restricted to the workplace, or should we start preparing our techpocalypse survival bunkers now? Today’s wonderful guest, Maryrose Lyons, doesn't think we’re quite there yet. Maryrose is the Founder of AI Institute, and she joins us for a chat about her…

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Episode 182 David Tuite, Founder of Roadie 23:14

23d ago23:14

23:14

We all have that one piece of information that is absolutely key to us doing our jobs. Yet for many of us, accessing this piece of information involves manually searching a keyword in either your email or a slack channel to find the one message from 2 years ago where it was mentioned. Today’s guest is here to let us know that there actually might b…

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Episode 181 Chad Whitacre, Head of open Source at Sentry 41:01

28d ago41:01

41:01

Today, we’re chatting with the head of Open Source at Sentry, Chad Whitacre. Everyone knows that once a startup begins to make the move from garage band to stadium tour, they’re going to need some investors. But how do we bridge the gap between them? Chad’s background as a developer has undoubtedly contributed to his talent for communicating with d…

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APIs as Utilities - Conversation with Alicia Miller and Joshua Markham 50:53

29d ago50:53

50:53

APIs are undergoing a transformative shift, and the mindset surrounding APIs is also evolving. In this episode, Kristof Van Tomme is joined by Alicia Miller and Joshua Markham (Verizon), and they explore the concept of APIs as utilities, what it means to approach APIs with a utility mindset, as well as the future of applications in the age of LLMs.…

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Episode 180 Laura Vass, Co-Founder of Pronovix and Host of API The Docs 43:03

1M ago43:03

43:03

Awards are often maligned for being more concerned with who you know, rather than what you know. But can developer awards be an outlier in the field? According to Laura Vass, our guest on today's episode, they absolutely can. Laura is the Co-Founder of Pronovix, an open source developer portal. She is also one of the organisers of the DevPortal awa…

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

1M 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

1M 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

1M 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

1M 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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Constructive criticality: the intersection of residuality theory and business strategy - Discussion with Barry O’Reilly 1:11:04

2M ago1:11:04

1:11:04

The key to successful architecture isn’t the beautiful design with the perfect abstractions; it is more about knowing what can go wrong and where the fragile areas are. In this episode, Barry O’Reilly (Founder at Black Tulip Technology) shares his experience as an architect with Kristof Van Tomme and points out how residuality theory can help us be…

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

2M 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

2M 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

2M 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

2M 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

2M 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

2M 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

2M 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

3M 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

3M 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

3M 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

3M 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

3M 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

3M 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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The technical and social contracts of APIs - Discussion with Marsh Gardiner 1:02:56

3M ago1:02:56

1:02:56

The way we think about the future of APIs can take many different forms. In this episode, Marsh Gardiner and Kristof Van Tomme approach the subject from several angles. They discuss questions like: Why can we say that APIs are interface utilities? How does the network effect work? Can we call APIs infrastructure? Marsh's #APIFutures post: https://s…

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

3M 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

4M 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

4M 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

4M 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

4M 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

4M 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

4M 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

4M 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

4M 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

5M 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

5M 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

5M 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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Boundaries and interfaces - Conversation with Koichi Shiroma 52:03

5M ago52:03

52:03

In this episode, Koichi Shiroma (Principal Consultant) narrates his journey of how his team implemented an interface portal. With Kristof Van Tomme, they discuss what can be the business drivers for interface portals and what obstacles one has to overcome during the implementation. Resources: https://pronovix.com/articles/apis-are-interface-utiliti…

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

5M 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

5M 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

5M 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

5M 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

5M 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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