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#18 - Wesley Faulkner: AWS, Community Management, DevRel
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Today's episode is with Wesley Faulkner, Senior Community Manager at AWS. We have discussed several topics ranging from community management, community ops, becoming a devrel, and much more!
(0:00) Podcast intro
(0:41) Wesley's intro
(1:19) Being a 1st generation American
(3:33) Role of a Community Manager at AWS
(7:36) Being a board member at The Experience Firm
(11:01) Head of Community at SingleStore
(13:06) Fostering internal communities within a company
(19:44) Developer advocacy in a startup and corporate (IBM and Dailyco)
(23:47) MongoDB Community Management
(26:12) CommunityOps: operations for maintaining a community
(30:32) Instructions to adopt CommunityOps in your company
(37:29) Does having marketing and social media skills help in devrel?
(40:26) The rise of Slack over Atlassian HipChat while Wesley was working at Atlassian
(46:07) Managing different roles at AMD
(49:51) Discovering what you love and finding your outlet of joy
(51:53) Interesting references and ChatGPT
(57:07) Using ChatGPT for DevRel
(1:02:54) Running for 2016 City Council in Austin Texas
(1:08:35) What to recommend for DevRel based on Wesley's 20 years experience in tech
(1:13:38) Shifting careers
(1:17:53) Certifications for DevRel
(1:15:39) Mental health question
(1:23:35) Outro
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