Docs, Demos, and DevRel: The Other Side of Tech
summary
Career paths broaden beyond IC vs management: technical advocacy, curriculum development, and documentation stay deeply technical while influencing product and security. Claims include: clear docs and hands‑on courses prevent misconfiguration that leads to months of undetected vulnerabilities; teams built a training lab and test site for hands‑on learning; community work published open‑source research and tools and used STRIDE to threat‑model a vending machine as a classroom exercise. Advice centers on concrete actions: write, speak, teach, reuse company policies to get time and exposure.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Talk introduction
- 0:23Tech career paths
- 1:28Career into DevRel
- 2:34What is DevRel
- 4:00Bridging users and product
- 5:26Curriculum developers role
- 7:10Security in technical writing
- 8:38Why docs and demos matter
- 10:25Influencing product and policy through advocacy
- 11:07Skills for transitioning
- 13:18Fear of teaching
- 15:05Research in advocacy
- 16:28Networking resources
- 17:12Q&A
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