I'm curious like how you sort of maneuvered from being an individual developer advocate to being a VP of DevRel, right? It's, DevRel is kind of often a zigzaggy career path. No one gets a degree in DevRel and joins the industry and just goes up in the ranks. So I always have to keep challenging myself to say, is this the best use of my time? Could I be helping someone or helping a group of people do their jobs better? And so that's really, in DevRel, that becomes the real challenge is more of an internal struggle for what do I want to be doing and where can I best, you know, have an
In this episode we’re joined by Sid Maestre, VP of Developer Relations at APIMatic, a platform that simplifies API consumption by automatically generating high-quality SDKs, code samples, dynamic docs, and test cases for your API. Prior to his current role, he was the Director of Developer Relations at Karbon; the Director of Developer Experience & Advocacy at Lob; and is also an experienced public speaker within the industry!
They discuss what it’s like collaborating with marketing in the DevRel world; Sid’s unconventional origins in social sciences; as well as some of the core principles that he’s learned whilst being in DevRel. They also delve into whether it’s your personality or ability that drives your success - which do you think it is?
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