Episode 134 Alvin Bryan Developer Advocate Contentful (Repeat)

Today we bring you a repeat of Alvin Bryan's conversation with Richard for a few reasons. Alvin is Developer Advocate with Contentful, and they came on board several months ago as sponsors of the Dublin DevRel Meetup we organise. (Join us next Wednesday, link below!). Their support of the meetup makes a lot of sense as you listen to Alvin discuss meetups and the challenges around creating them. And in the run up to next Wednesday's online meetup, where we'll have a discussion on DevRel careers and job hunting, Alvin's description of the 3 Cs of DevRel and his analysis of the role is well worth listening to again. Especially if you're a developer, but you feel you need a change of role, but not industry. In this episode we talk to Alvin Bryan, Developer Advocate at Contentful and a coach at Codebar, a really interesting initiative to help people learning to code and starting out in various languages. Alvin generously and openly walks us through how he moved from being a frontend developer to his current role. We talk about when organisations just don't get the value of developer community building and supporting meetups, something he and Contentful very much have in their plans! Listen to hear about the 3 Cs of DevRel, and a little frustration at our own industry for our perhaps lack of attention to details when it comes to SDKs. Reach out to Alvin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvin-bryan/ Learn more about Contentful here https://www.contentful.com/ And learn more about Codebar here https://www.codebar.io/ Find out more and listen to previous podcasts here: https://www.voxgig.com/podcast Subscribe to our newsletter for weekly updates and information about upcoming meetups: https://voxgig.substack.com/ Join the Dublin DevRel Meetup group here: www.devrelmeetup.com

Episode source