I feel like there's a level of air cover you can give as a leader starting a new initiative. Like if a developer advocate does a webinar that fails, that may reflect more poorly on them than it does on you. And my biggest challenge when you go in new to an organization is the leadership is fired up and they're ready for you to start executing. You've been there, you can make this, you can get the ball rolling quickly.
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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