#18 - Wesley Faulkner: AWS, Community Management, DevRel
Today's episode is with Wesley Faulkner, Senior Community Manager at AWS. We have discussed several topics ranging from community management, community ops, becoming a devrel, and much more!
0:00 Podcast intro
0:41 Wesley's intro
1:19 Being a 1st generation American
3:33 Role of a Community Manager at AWS
7:36 Being a board member at The Experience Firm
11:01 Head of Community at SingleStore
13:06 Fostering internal communities within a company
19:44 Developer advocacy in a startup and corporate (IBM and Dailyco)
23:47 MongoDB Community Management
26:12 CommunityOps: operations for maintaining a community
30:32 Instructions to adopt CommunityOps in your company
37:29 Does having marketing and social media skills help in devrel?
40:26 The rise of Slack over Atlassian HipChat while Wesley was working at Atlassian
46:07 Managing different roles at AMD
49:51 Discovering what you love and finding your outlet of joy
51:53 Interesting references and ChatGPT
57:07 Using ChatGPT for DevRel
1:02:54 Running for 2016 City Council in Austin Texas
1:08:35 What to recommend for DevRel based on Wesley's 20 years experience in tech
1:13:38 Shifting careers
1:17:53 Certifications for DevRel
1:15:39 Mental health question
1:23:35 Outro
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