Screaming in the Cloud

Replay - Breaking the Tech Mold with Stephanie Wong

Oct 10, 2024

39:56

On this Screaming in the Cloud Replay, we’re revisiting our conversation with Stephanie Wong. When she first sat down with Corey, she was the Head of Developer Engagement at Google, but today, she serves as the company’s Head of Technical Storytelling. While Stephanie is certainly a key player at such a massive company, her passion lies in her own advocacy for women in tech as well as making tech more approachable to larger audiences. Stephanie is not one to put her job title first. Her bio covers the spread from dancer, to hip-hop medalist, to podcast host. Stephanie gives us the birds eye view on her own non-traditional and interdisciplinary path that led to her work both in and outside of Google. Stephanie’s focus on producing content that reaches across a wide spectrum of participants is crucial to how she has broken the mold on what tech can do, and her lessons are ones we can all learn from.

Show Highlights:

(0:00) Intro

(1:06) Backblaze sponsor read

(1:32) Explaining the Head of Developer Engagement

(2:13) Stephanie’s background and authenticity in tech

(7:11) Approaching developer relations from a non-”traditional” tech background

(11:04) Building a personal and company online presence

(14:41) Corey’s perceived contradictions with Google Cloud

(22:29) Through engaging your audience through media and storytelling

(27:23) Helping find the next generation of tech talent

(29:23) The cloud and the inflection of tech

(38:51) Where you can find more from Stephanie

About Stephanie Wong:

Stephanie Wong is an award-winning speaker, engineer, pageant queen, and hip hop medalist. She is a leader at Google with a mission to blend storytelling and technology to create remarkable developer content. At Google, she's created 100s of videos, blogs, courses, and podcasts that have helped developers globally. Stephanie is active in her community, fiercely supporting women in tech and mentoring students.

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