Bradston, thanks for such an interesting post! As a fellow software engineer into Devrel, I can totally relate to your thoughts!
I've been a Devrel engineer at my current workplace for a bit over an year. It was a career transition from full-stack/webdev, a role that I worked in earlier for many years.
I made this transition almost by accident. For years working as a software engineer, I would produce content in my free time, in the form of blog posts and technical deep dives. Just like you, I loved to see other people succeed - so I volunteered as an editor at a bunch of publications too, to help other developers publish and succeed as a writer.
My passion was eventually discovered on social media by the company that I work for now, and they offered me this role. Needless to say, I enjoy this kind of work - where not only I code, but I also talk about code! 😁 Here's our engineering blogs on dev.to and our website!
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Bradston, thanks for such an interesting post! As a fellow software engineer into Devrel, I can totally relate to your thoughts!
I've been a Devrel engineer at my current workplace for a bit over an year. It was a career transition from full-stack/webdev, a role that I worked in earlier for many years.
I made this transition almost by accident. For years working as a software engineer, I would produce content in my free time, in the form of blog posts and technical deep dives. Just like you, I loved to see other people succeed - so I volunteered as an editor at a bunch of publications too, to help other developers publish and succeed as a writer.
My passion was eventually discovered on social media by the company that I work for now, and they offered me this role. Needless to say, I enjoy this kind of work - where not only I code, but I also talk about code! 😁 Here's our engineering blogs on dev.to and our website!
That's a really awesome story @booleanhunter!
Happy to see a fellow Dev turned DevRel. So cool that the content you created in your free time helped you to get the role you have now!