Erin and Brian are joined by Jenn Junod, a developer advocate and content creator for Teach Jenn Tech, to discuss a variety of hot topics in DevRel including the state of the job market in DevRel and doing DevRel as a freelancer.
Hot Topics in DevRel with Jenn Junod
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Erin Mikail Staples
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Brian Rinaldi
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Featured Guest
Jenn Junod is a multifaceted professional specializing in community management, content strategy, and growth marketing. She is committed to fostering a compassionate and empowered audience, leveraging her skills to make technology more accessible and engaging. As the host of “Teach Jenn Tech,” Jenn focuses on collaborative learning to break down technical barriers, enabling developers to understand, adopt, and appreciate technical products. Her approach emphasizes the human aspect of technology, ensuring that complex concepts become approachable for a diverse audience. Through her diverse roles and initiatives, Jenn continues to advocate for social justice within the tech industry, striving to create inclusive spaces where everyone feels heard and valued.
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Erin Mikail Staples is a very online individual passionate about facilitating better connections online and off. She’s forever thinking about how we can communicate, educate and elevate others through collaborative experiences.
Currently, Erin builds community and thinks about the philosophy and tooling of the community and developer advocate world. Much of her day is spent empowering individuals to build, foster, and embrace healthy communities. Outside of her day-job, Erin is a comedian, graduate technical advisor, no-code content creator, triathlete, avid reader, and cat parent.
Most importantly, she believes in the power of being unabashedly “into things” and works to help friends, strangers, colleagues, community builders, students, and whoever else might cross her path find their thing.
Brian Rinaldi leads the Developer Relations team at LocalStack. Brian has over 25 years experience as a developer – mostly for the web – and over a decade in Developer Relations for companies like Adobe, Progress Software and LaunchDarkly. Brian is actively involved in the developer community running virtual meetups via CFE.dev and in-person events as President of Orlando Devs. He’s also the editor of the Jamstacked newsletter and the author of a number of books.