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Can I be a Developer Advocate?

Sohini Pattanayak on February 14, 2022

Of Course Yes !! 🤓 I am Sohini and I am a Developer Advocate 🥑 at Entando. It has been 2 and a half months since I joined Entando. Before that, ...
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Jones Zachariah Noel

This is a very insightful read. Well, I'm also looking for a transition into DevRel role but people always ask for DevRel experience. 🤷‍♂️

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Sohini Pattanayak

Glad that this felt insightful! You'll definitely be one soon! You've got this 💪🏻

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Jones Zachariah Noel

Thanks @sohinip! 😊👍

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Let's Code • Edited

Hi Sohini, thanks for the post. Followed you on Twitter as well.

I have a Youtube that have a decent subs and dev.to

Do you think that is enough to be a dev advocate? What do you do day to day as an advocate?

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Sohini Pattanayak

Hi! This looks great. I like the number of subscribers you have, along with the dev.to posts. I'd like to suggest, maybe you can add your own picture to your channel as well as the dev.to account, to make it look like it's really you. Apart from that, it all looks absolutely a good to go thingy! Only one thing is missing, maybe you could be socially more active with all the awesome stuff you're doing! I hope that helps :-)

Day to Day life adds to exploring content, creating content and finally evangelising them (Blogs+Video Tutorials). The exploring content is the hardest part as that involves finding unique and useful stuff, for people. And yes, tweeting too! 🙈

I really love to help people, and so i'm looking forward to writing more blogs to help people and make them aware of this role.

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Let's Code

thank you for the quick response. dev rel might be a good transitioning role for me down the role, not sure when is the time

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Sohini Pattanayak

Well i say, right now is the time! And confidence is the key. You know you have enough stuff to show and tell your recruiter when you apply for a role. So start applying! There are a lot of openings nowadays for dev advocacy! :-)

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Shai Almog

Well said. Everyone can and is welcome. We need a lot of developer advocates!

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Sohini Pattanayak

Agreed! 🤓

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Andrew Baisden

Good read!

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Miklós Szeles

Great article Sohini.😊

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Sohini Pattanayak

Thank you so much @mszeles 🤓