How to Keep Your Engineering Skills Sharp in DevRel

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A lot of the DevRel people I talk to worry about keeping their engineering skills sharp. How have you continued to hone your engineering skills and what advice might you give other DevRel folks? It is super challenging to do, it's something I'm always thinking about. When I was at MongoDB, I campaigned with my manager to let him give me a quarter off to go work on an engineering team.

In this episode of the State of Developer Education podcast, Jon speaks with Lauren Schaefer, Developer Advocate at Grammarly, the company delivering AI communication assistance to over 50,000 teams and 30 million people daily. Lauren is a software engineer, developer advocate, keynote speaker, and inventor who is at her best when she’s creating engaging and easy to understand content in a variety of mediums.

Together they discuss whether or not a degree in tech is really all that vital; how to let your skills guide your career; the importance of learning to work with all sorts of different people; and just how diverse a career in DevRel really is! They also delve into whether there is any tension between the marketing and engineering side of a DevRel team?

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