#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    Follow us on:   Website: https://www.reconfigured.co   Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/reconfiguredco    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reconfiguredco    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@reconfiguredco      Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reconfiguredco    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/reconfiguredco/