Building a DevRel Team - Interview with Lorna Mitchell, Head of Developer Relations at Aiven.

Episode 20 of the API The Docs Podcast podcast, hosted by API The Docs, titled "Building a DevRel Team - Interview with Lorna Mitchell, Head of Developer Relations at Aiven. " was published on July 15, 2021 and runs 29 minutes.

July 15, 2021 ·29m · API The Docs Podcast

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Building a DevRel Team - Interview with Lorna Mitchell, Head of Developer Relations at Aiven.  Lorna is an open source software developer and project maintainer, published author, blogger and conference speaker, who is with us today to talk about the skills and roles that contribute to successfully operating a devrel team: Priorities and structure when developing a new devrel team Roles and responsibilities Involving a technical writer in the team Career path, growth and collaboration in a devrel team Insights of creating a new open source devportal Aiven open source data tools and products Maintenance of documentation and workflows Sources: Read more about Lorna’s work here: https://lornajane.net/ For job offerings at Aiven, please visit: https://aiven.io/careers The hosts are Laura Vass (Editor of Developer Portals Newsletter, Co-Founder of Pronovix) and Anett Pozsár (Senior Technical Writer, Pronovix).

Episode Description

Building a DevRel Team - Interview with Lorna Mitchell, Head of Developer Relations at Aiven.

Lorna is an open source software developer and project maintainer, published author, blogger and conference speaker, who is with us today to talk about the skills and roles that contribute to successfully operating a devrel team:

Priorities and structure when developing a new devrel team
Roles and responsibilities
Involving a technical writer in the team
Career path, growth and collaboration in a devrel team
Insights of creating a new open source devportal
Aiven open source data tools and products
Maintenance of documentation and workflows

Sources:

Read more about Lorna’s work here: https://lornajane.net/
For job offerings at Aiven, please visit: https://aiven.io/careers

The hosts are Laura Vass (Editor of Developer Portals Newsletter, Co-Founder of Pronovix) and Anett Pozsár (Senior Technical Writer, Pronovix).

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