Have you ever wondered what a developer advocate, sometimes called a developer evangelist,

does?

You know the folks.

They're often seen at conferences working at some high-in tech company's booth or traveling

from conference to conference speaking on their specialty.

Who are these folks?

How did they get this job?

And what is it really like to do it from day to day?

Join me along with Cecil Philip from Microsoft, Matt McKay from Twilio, and Paul Everett

from JetBrains to dig into what it means to be a developer advocate and how they

each became one for such cool tech companies.

This is Talk Python Me, episode 189 recorded November 28th, 2018.

Music recorded November 28th, 2018. Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the

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Cecil Paul Matt. Welcome to Talk Python. Thanks for having us. Yeah, it's great to have you all

here. I'm super excited about this. I'm not even sure what we're calling yet, developer advocate,

developer evangelists, developer relations, conversation, because I feel like this role is a little

bit mysterious to many folks in the software engineering field. But at the same time, it looks

really fun. And I think a lot of folks

interact with all of you. And it's going to be really fun to just dig into what you do and how you

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