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Fireside with Voxgig
by Richard Rodger: Voxgig CEO, founder and author
This DevRel focused podcast allows entrepreneur, author and coder Richard Rodger to introduce you to interesting leaders and experienced professionals in the tech community. Richard and his guests chat not just about their current work or latest trend, but also about their experiences, good and bad, throughout their career. DevRel requires so many different skills and you can come to it from so many routes, that this podcast has featured conference creators, entrepreneurs, open source maintainers, developer advocates and community managers. Join us to learn about just how varied DevRel can be and get ideas to expand your work, impact and community.
Episodes
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Episode 249 Sébastien Blanc, Developer Relation Engineer at Port IO
Today, we’re speaking to someone who’s been doing DevRel since before DevRel was a term anyone knew. Sébastien Blanc is the Developer Relation Engineer at Port IO, an internal developer portal that gives developers the opportunity to do all their engineering in one place. Sébastien speaks to us...
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Episode 248 Richard Bray, Developer Advocate at BetterStack
Richard Bray is our guest on the show today, and we are so excited to talk all about his role as Developer Advocate at Better Stack. Better Stack is a developer-first observability and incident management platform that combines incident management with uptime monitoring. Richard started down the...
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Episode 247 Andy Hilliard, CEO of Accelerance
Today we’re delighted to be talking outsourcing, distributed development, and empathy with Andy Hilliard, the CEO of Accelerance. Accelerance is a software outsourcing consultancy - in other words, they help other companies to build distributor teams and make them functional. Andy has ended up...
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Episode 246 Lori Lorusso, Open Source Advocate and Head of Community at Percona
Today, we’re back with a new episode! We chatted to Lori Lorusso who is an open source advocate and the head of community at Percona. Percona is an organisation leading the way in open source database software, support, and services. We talk to Lori about how she’s made her way as a DevRel, and…
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Episode 245 Thorsten Schaeff, Developer Experience Engineer at ElevenLabs
In this episode, we’re drilling more into the vocational aspect of DevRel, with our guest Thorsten Schaeff. Thor has recently become the Developer Experience Engineer at ElevenLabs, an AI Audio research and deployment company, and he’s based out of Singapore, having moved there with Stripe six...
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Episode 244 Karl Hughes Founder of Draft.dev and The Podcast Consultant
Some people spend their whole lives looking for their “superpower”, but if you’re a DevRel, you’ve probably already found yours. Today we’re speaking to Founder of Draft.dev, Karl Hughes about his path through the startup world, and the ever-changing landscape it operates in. Draft.dev is a...
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Episode 243 Carolina Paradas, Vice President of Growth at Fidel API
We’re back from our break this week with an excellent chat about the world of Fintech! Carolina Paradas is the Vice President of growth at Fidel API, a classic aggregation API that lets you act on payments in real time. And with code on the homepage, we already know that they’ve got an outlook we...
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Episode 242 Juan Cruz Viotti, Founder of Source Meta
Today, we’re sitting down for an in-depth technical discussion with Juan Cruz Viotti, the Founder of Sourcemeta, a top provider of JSON Schema tooling and services. Juan has been working in the space for a long time, so we’re delighted to be getting his insight into this field. A lot of people…
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Episode 241 Alex Rattray, Founder of Stainless
Today we’re sitting down for a chat with Alex Rattray, founder of Stainless, to talk about what they do, and how AI could be shaking up the SDK space in a big way. Stainless is an SDK generator that helps create high quality SDKs for rest APIs. Alex’s reason for starting the company is simple. He...
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Episode 240 Courtney Yatteau and Raúl Jiménez Ortega, Developer Experience Team at Esri
Today, we have a very wonderful unreleased episode from last year. It’s a dynamic duo on the pod today, as we’re joined by Raúl Jiménez Ortega and Courtney Yatteau from the Developer Experience Team at Esri. We talk about the experience of DevRel in a large organisation, and how internal DevRel...
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Episode 239 Abhishek Mishra, DevRel Engineer at Tune AI
Today we’re speaking to the wonderful Abhishek Mishra of Tune AI, a Gen AI stack, that focuses on fine-tuning and deploying generative AI models. With two products under their belt, they’ve had their hands full and Abhishek joins us to tell us all about it. In this episode we discuss the topic of...
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Episode 238 Trey Botard, Head of Developer Relations at Atomic
Trey Botard joins the ranks of our guests with an unconventional entry into DevRel. He’s the Head of Developer Relations at Atomic, a digital financial connectivity platform that manages online payroll transactions. His origin story begins with wine, and helping a team of waiters understand how…
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Episode 237 Martyn Davies, Developer Relations Leader at Zuplo
Today we’re speaking to someone who could definitely give us all a few tips on how to make high quality, engaging DevRel content. We’re talking about Martyn Davies, the Developer Relations Leader at Zuplo, who joins us to talk APIs, developer experience and the wider world’s understanding of...
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Episode 236 Ed Shee, CTO of Ignitus
It can be a hard pill for DevRels to swallow, that not everyone loves learning as much as we do - but at the end of the day, this itself becomes a problem that we can spend time learning to solve! Too meta? Today’s guest is Ed Shee, the CTO of Ignitus, where they’re working on individualised AI...
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Episode 235 Nuno Job, Co-Founder of Decipad
You may have heard of something called a “can-do” attitude. Well for today’s guest, Nuno Job, it’s more of a “will-do” attitude, as he seems to breeze past industry neurotics and red tape with admirable ease. Nuno is the Co-Founder of Decipad and was one of the organisers of the LXJS conference...
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Episode 234 Pat Dwyer 2, Professional Humourist and Speaker
If you’ve ever been tasked with public speaking, then you’ve probably found yourself amongst the large majority of people who consider it to be one of the scariest things a person can do. And if that’s the case, you might be interested to hear from today’s guest, Pat Dwyer. Pat revisits us on the...
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Episode 233 Allan Knabe, CEO and Co-Founder of apiable.io
We’re continuing to kick off the new year with Allan Knabe, the CEO and Co-Founder of apiable.io, an API portal that’s helping to smooth out the creation process. Building an API is harder than it looks, but it doesn’t always have to be such a difficult task. One of Apiable’s key priorities is...
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Episode 232, Eoin Boylan 2, Head of Engineering at Evervault
Welcome back! We’re bringing in 2025 (and with it a new, exciting lineup of guests) with an oldie but a goldie - Eoin Boylan. Eoin first visited us fireside in 2022, and we are delighted to have him back for an update on all he’s been up to since our first chat. SDK strategy can be divisive, with...
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Episode 231 Andrew MacLean (repeat), Developer Relations Manager at DevCycle
Today, we're revisiting this New Year's episode from 2024. Our guest was Andrew MacLean, the developer relations manager at DevCycle, a feature flag management platform for developers. If you’ve never heard of feature flag management, that’s probably because it’s a relatively new space, despite...
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Episode 230, Phil Leggetter, Head of DevRel and Developer Marketing at Hookdeck
Top tip: if you’re thinking of getting into DevRel, just know that you will hate boxes of t-shirts for the rest of your life. Or at least that’s how today’s guest, Phil Leggetter feels about them. Merch getting stuck in customs is a minor issue for sure, but it’s one of the pitfalls of DevRel we...
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Episode 229, Kevlin Henney, Consultant, Speaker and Writer
Today, we’re speaking to Kevlin Henney, who, if you scroll back far enough, you’ll see was one of our earliest guests on the podcast. We’re thrilled to have Kevlin back for a discussion on microservices, agile development and how developers can avoid the “factory line” work style. Kevlin talks to...
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Episode 228, Zameer Fouzan, Lead Developer Relations Engineer at New Relic
Today we’re talking observability, open source, developer education and the politics of conference speaking. And we’re doing it all with our amazing guest, Zameer Fouzan from New Relic. If you don’t already know, New Relic helps engineers effectively deploy and run software with Full Stack...
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Episode 227 Jim Bennett Developer Advocate at Pieces For Developers
Coding is like spinning plates, and before you even start you've gotta be spinning seven of them. Today's guest is Jim Bennett, the Developer Advocate at Pieces For Developers, where they’re trying to make that plate spinning act run just a little smoother. Pieces For Developers works as a long...
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Episode 226 Katie Wasilenko Miller, DevRel Advisor and Mentor, and Ambassador for the Developer Marketing Alliance
Our guest today is Katie Wasilenko Miller, and if you’re at all curious about what it’s like to have worked in DevRel for Google, Asana, and Slack then this might be the episode for you. Katie has spent a great deal of time across a huge variety of roles in the DevRel space, and after years of...
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Episode 226 John Gilhuly, Developer Advocate at Arize.com
John Gilhuly is the chief developer advocate at Arize.com, an AI observability monitoring platform, and he joins us for a great discussion on the rapidly evolving AI space, and what that means for a company built to work with LLM applications. He talks to us about Arize’s new open source product,...
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Episode 225 Stacey Kruczek, Director of Developer Relations at Aerospike.com
When Stacey Kruczek joined Aerospike.com, their community building needed a little TLC from a developer relations expert. These days, the community is 12,000 people strong, the meetups are thriving and she knows exactly how to prove DevRel’s business value. In this episode, we chat with Stacey...
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Episode 224 Nick Schneeberger, Founder of Free Public APIs
Nick Schneeberger is the developer behind Freepublicapis.com, which is no small accomplishment given that he’s also teaching at a university and studying for a data science masters degree at the same time. We’re thrilled to have Nick on the podcast, to give us some insights into how programming…
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Episode 223 James Higginbotham 2, Founder of LaunchAny and API Consultant
Back in February, James Higginbotham joined us for a chat about what it’s like to work with increasingly large developer teams. Now he’s back to catch us up on what he’s been doing at his company, LaunchAny. LaunchAny is an API strategy and design consultancy, and so James is the ideal person to...
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Episode 221 Colm Doyle 2, Engineering Manager at Personio
Today we’re speaking once again to the wonderful Colm Doyle, who you may remember from his appearance on Fireside early last year. It’s so wonderful to catch up with Colm, as he’s now the Engineering Manager at Personio, and as such has some fresh new perspectives to give us. For those who may…
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Episode 220 David Cramer (repeat), Co-Founder and CTO of Sentry
We’re fortunate on the Fireside podcast to be able to speak to so many people at the top of their game, and today we're revisiting our chat from earlier this year, with someone who's no different. David Cramer is the Co-Founder and CTO of Sentry, the app monitoring platform designed to quickly…
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Episode 219 Pierre Burgy Co-Founder and CEO of Strapi
Today, we're delighted to be talking to Pierre Burgy, the founder and CEO of Strapi, a headless CMS. We're getting into how they're trying to eliminate having your CMS be your biggest headache as a developer. Pierre has a fresh perspective on open source business models, and open source itself…
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Episode 218 Jono Bacon 2, Founder of Community Leadership Core
It’s time for another talk about community! And who better for us to speak to, than friend of the podcast Jono Bacon? Jono is the Founder of Community Leadership Core, and a community expert. He’s sitting down with us to give us a look behind the scenes of how he completely transforms…
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Episode 217 Simon & Ethan (repeat), CTO and DevRel at Vaunt
Today we’re joined by Ethan Lewis and Simon Cheng, CTO and DevRel of Vaunt.dev for a discussion on how their work enables individuals and companies to nurture their open source communities. Vaunt is a SaaS tool that was built on a key ethos: saying thank you. It’s no secret that thanking people…
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Episode 216 Brian Douglas 2, Founder and CEO of Open Sauced
It's always a treat to have a returning guest on the Fireside with Voxgig podcast, but especially so when that guest has done so much in the time since we last got to chat to them. We're delighted to welcome back Brian Douglas - the Founder and CEO of Open Sauced, an open source intelligence...
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Episode 215 Aravind Putrevu (repeat), Engineer and Tech Evangelist
In this episode from last year, we spoke to Aravind Putrevu. Aravind is a developer advocate turned angel investor, but to leave it at just that would be a disservice. He has his fingers in many pies, including DevRel consulting, where he helps companies with their product marketing and strategy....
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Episode 214 Ciara Sheahan (repeat), Founder, Presenter, and Journalist
It’s always fun to talk about the futuristic potential of virtual reality, but it’s even more fun to talk about it with Ciara Sheahan, because she actually knows some real information about this topic. Ciara is a radio presenter, journalist and tech entrepreneur, and she joined us on the podcast...
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Episode 213 Conor O Neill (repeat), Director of Product and Engineering at Axonista
Back in January, we had a familiar face on the Voxgig podcast! We’re speaking to our host Richard’s former colleague, Conor O’Neill. Conor is the Director of Product and Engineering at Axonista, an interactive video CMS, where he’s helping them transform video from a fun accessory to a key…
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Episode 212 Joe Batten, Founder of With Scale
Joe Batten joins us for a deep dive into the world of RevOps! The tasks involved in a Revenue Operations role have pretty much always existed in some form, so it can be defined as essentially a combo deal of sales enablement, marketing operations, data analysis and business intelligence. So…
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Episode 211, Tejas Kumar, Developer Relations Engineer and Host of the ConTejas Code Podcast
We’re delighted to welcome Tejas Kumar back to the Fireside podcast! Tejas is a particularly relevant guest for us, as he takes us behind the scenes of his own wonderful podcast - ConTejas Code. We had Tejas on the podcast last year, and we were excited to hear about all the new developments for...
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Episode 209, Peter Bryant, Founder at RimuHosting
It's an exciting episode today, for everyone we’re sure, but particularly for Richard, as today’s guest is none other than Peter Bryant, the Founder of RimuHosting, and something of a personal hero of Richard’s. Richard in fact, was a client of RimuHosting, and he still recalls that what first...
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Episode 208 Jack Coldrick, Senior Technical Partner Manager at Personio
Today we're speaking with Jack Coldrick, the Senior Technical Partner Manager at Personio. Jack joins us to talk about what goes into managing an app marketplace and how his background as a solutions engineer may have set him up for success. So why does Personio have an app marketplace? Well it's...
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Episode 210 Michiel Mulders (repeat) Developer Advocate at Swirlds Labs
Michiel Mulders is a wonderful example of a creative developer, driven to share knowledge and committed to quality documentation. He delivers a module on documentation and technical writing at DevRel University, free online course dedicated to Web3 DevRel. In this episode, Richard and Michiel…
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Episode 207 Carter Rabasa (repeat), Head of Developer Relations
Please enjoy this chat from last year with Carter Rabasa! Carter Rabasa is Head of Developer Relations at Courier and joins Richard in this Fireside with Voxgig chat. This starts as a history of developer relations, but exposes a question, a gap; who were the devrel leaders in the API/cloud era?...
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Episode 206 Emily Omier (repeat), Open Source Consultant, Podcast Host and Advisor
Tune in for an in-depth chat about how companies can improve their revenue through fully understanding their open source project and software. Emily speaks truthful sense. This is a tough message for the overly optimistic among you. As Richard so rightly points out – knowing the right thing to do...
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Episode 205 Matteo Collina returns, Platformatic Co-Founder and CTO
Our guest today is none other than the wonderful Matteo Collina. Matteo is a returning guest on the podcast, and we are so excited to catch up with him. There's a lot of ground to cover here, including philosophy, the highs and lows of being a maintainer, and the world of TypeScript. Matteo leads...
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Episode 204 Alvin Bryan returns, Developer Advocate at Unleash
Today we welcome back Alvin Bryan to the Fireside with Voxgig podcast! Alvin Bryan joined us over a year and a half ago. Alvin is the Developer Advocate at Unleash, and he joins us for another chat about Developer relations, meetups and open source. We sat down with Alvin to chat about the lack…
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Episode 203 Joe Pettersson (repeat), CTO at Banked.com
Joe Pettersson joined the podcast last year to talk all things devrel at banked.com. Banked is a global payments network, and if you’ve ever tried to order anything online, you’ll know that the payments systems used by various websites are far from perfect. Banked is on a mission to fix that.…
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Episode 202 Robert Kaminski (repeat), Co-Founder and Partner at Fletch PMM
Today, we're revisiting this chat we had with Robert Kaminski from last year, where he talked us through the practice of positioning. What even is positioning? Isn’t it that thing you do when you’ve already established your company and you’ve kind of already got everything figured out? According…
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Episode 201 Jason St-Cyr, VP of Engagement at Fishtank Consulting
After the excitement of our 200th episode earlier this week, it’s back to our regularly scheduled programming here at Fireside. And what’s become regular for us, along with seemingly the whole world, are discussions of AI and the current and potential consequences of its use. We’re chatting to...
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Episode 200 Steven Coochin, Chief Innovation Officer at Lilypad
It’s episode TWO HUNDRED! And what a two hundred episodes they’ve been, from public speaking, to Developer Advocacy, to our recent focus on the API space, it’s been an incredible journey, and we want to thank you our listeners above all, for sticking with us, and inspiring us to stay curious, and...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This DevRel focused podcast allows entrepreneur, author and coder Richard Rodger to introduce you to interesting leaders and experienced professionals in the tech community. Richard and his guests chat not just about their current work or latest trend, but also about their experiences, good and bad, throughout their career. DevRel requires so many different skills and you can come to it from so many routes, that this podcast has featured conference creators, entrepreneurs, open source maintainers, developer advocates and community managers. Join us to learn about just how varied DevRel can be and get ideas to expand your work, impact and community.
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Richard Rodger: Voxgig CEO, founder and author
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