Brandon West joined SendGrid, a customer communication platform for transactional and marketing email in 2011 as their first Developer Evangelist. Since then he’s had a brilliant career, working at AWS and CoScreen, which has just been acquired by Datadog.

What we cover

(00:57): What does DevRel look like at startups at the earliest stage?
(05:13): How do you balance doing the right things and building credibility with the fact that you're also willing to push and demo things, which aren't perfect yet.
(07:13): What was it like when you were at SendGrid?
(11:46): What did the relationship look like with the product team?

(17:04): Where can people learn more?

Guest links

Twitter: @bwest
Site link: http://bwe.st

DataDog: https://www.datadoghq.com/
CoScreen: https://www.coscreen.co/

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