Fireside with Voxgig

We're nearly at our 200th episode! As that day approaches, we invite you to listen to this throwback from last year of Richard's discussion with Tejas Kumar. We'll be back next week with a brand new guest for you to enjoy and learn from! Richard and Tejas cover fresh ground in today's episode. Watch out for the discussion of DevRel vs DevSell. Tejas talks us through the difference. And he gives wo...

Continuing our commitment to bring you voices rom across the DevRel ecosystem, we'd like to take a look back at Richard's talk with Louise Ogilvy, a recruitment specialist for all things developer related, from July of 2023. Louise defines roles clearly, helping companies and start-ups creating developer tooling to get from idea to market. She recruits for the entire product cycle: Product, build...

Diversity and inclusion have been firmly in the “could do better” section of The tech industry’s report card for quite a few years now. But in this episode from November of last year, Furkan Karayel is determined to change that. This was the second time we had Furkan on the show, and we were delighted to welcome her back for an update and further insight into her endeavours. Furkan is an ex-softwa...

“You're only as good as your last delivery”. This phrase may apply best to ambitious UberEats drivers, but when it comes to providing non-food based services, it also neatly fits in the DevRel and Product Managing world. We're joined once again by Jock Busuttil, for an update on his work at Product People, and to gain his thoughts on the wider product managing space (and why Product Management is...

Rory Madden, Co-Founder of UXDX, joined Richard on this episode of the podcast from last year, to talk us through his journey to creating one of the most dynamic, barrier-free conference series’ in tech. UXDX (UX being user experience, DX being developer experience) was born from Rory’s frustration when he couldn’t figure out how to implement innovative solutions in the companies he was working in...

When we relaunched the Fireside with Voxgig podcast over a year ago, Caelen King was one of our first guests and even then, it was obvious there were tech layoffs happening. But Caelen gives great advice to non-tech founders and leaders about hiring - no matter what the market dynamics may be. So we're publishing this again for new listeners to the podcast. Richard and Caelen talk specifically abo...

It’s been a minute since we’ve had an episode focused on public speaking, but we cannot think of a better person to bring the topic back than Kris Jenkins. Kris is a developer advocate, software developer and host of the Developer Voices podcast. Kris gives us some practical and most importantly actionable advice for any public speakers - whether you’re doing a one-off speech, weekly talks, or eve...

We’re back with some brand new episodes! Kicking us off in style is the wonderful Carmen Huidobro. Carmen is the Head of Developer Education at DevCraft Academy, and she’s got some amazing insights into everything from the philosophy of language and learning, to the pros and cons of being a “generalist” in tech. On this episode, we get into the question of whether nature or nurture can more deeply...

Last year, Richard spoke to Maria Ashby, developer advocate at Kubeshop. She talked all things Kubernetes, community building, and how developer monoculture is a thing of the past. Back in the days of an early version of Voxgig, Richard and the team got a crash course in Kubernetes which left more questions than answers. If Maria's work with Kubeshop had been around then, that might not have been...

Thank you all so much for bearing with us while we finish recording a whole collection of new episodes. For now, please enjoy this repeat of Chris Ward's episode from last year. Technical writing is an essential element of countless products and services. So why is appreciation of it on the decline? Our guest, Chris Ward (or Chris Chinchilla as you may know him), is a talented writer. Not just of...

We'll be back next week with brand new episodes, but for today, we hope you enjoy this episode from last year, where we spoke to Marino Wijay: Here at the Voxgig podcast we’ve decided that we’re sick of talking about DevRel all the time. So we’ve decided to switch it up with something completely different for this episode - DevOps! Marino Wijay joins Richard to talk about operator relations, and h...

Marc Laventure is the CEO and Co-Founder of Scalar and, we're looking back on the time we chatted with Marc Laventure last year, about API documentation, startups and accessibility. He also happens to be the latest guest whose technical background originates in hardware before morphing into product development. Scalar is a service that allows you to document, discover and test APIs, which once aga...

Today we're revisiting this career guidance episode from last year! Julia has a background in law, marketing and now is a successful developer relations guru. Julia generously shares her journey to DevRel in an accessible chat and with an achievable pathway. But be prepared to commit time and effort to community building. According to Julia Furst Morgado, if you work in DevRel, you need to be able...

When it comes to Developer Relations, today’s guest believes the word “developer” comes first in that label for a reason. We’re speaking to Philipp Krenn, Head of DveRel and developer Advocacy at Elastic, and he’s here to chat to us about the work he and his 20 person DevRel team are currently doing. Philipp discusses the adjustment to meetups after covid, and how factors such as distance can affe...

Today we're talking about bridging the gap between back end development and front end experience. Our guest is Tushar Mathur, and he's the Founder and CEO of Tailcall, an open-source platform for building GraphQL APIs on existing endpoints. As you might imagine, we take the opportunity to ask Tushar about the ever expanding API sprawl currently going on. He believes that we should perhaps abandon...

Today we’re speaking to Jake Ward, Co-Founder and CEO of Data Protocol. Data Protocol is a developer engagement and support platform that hosts and produces high quality video content to help companies effectively communicate to developers. We all know that interactive and video content has the power to teach and engage people in a way that written documentation struggles with, and this reality is...

AI and LLMs specifically have revolutionised the world of marketing. But will the revolution be restricted to the workplace, or should we start preparing our techpocalypse survival bunkers now? Today’s wonderful guest, Maryrose Lyons, doesn't think we’re quite there yet. Maryrose is the Founder of AI Institute, and she joins us for a chat about her journey, the rise of marketing and how AI can fre...

We all have that one piece of information that is absolutely key to us doing our jobs. Yet for many of us, accessing this piece of information involves manually searching a keyword in either your email or a slack channel to find the one message from 2 years ago where it was mentioned. Today’s guest is here to let us know that there actually might be a slightly better way of internally relaying inf...

Today, we’re chatting with the head of Open Source at Sentry, Chad Whitacre. Everyone knows that once a startup begins to make the move from garage band to stadium tour, they’re going to need some investors. But how do we bridge the gap between them? Chad’s background as a developer has undoubtedly contributed to his talent for communicating with developers in his current role. But beyond that, he...

Awards are often maligned for being more concerned with who you know, rather than what you know. But can developer awards be an outlier in the field? According to Laura Vass, our guest on today's episode, they absolutely can. Laura is the Co-Founder of Pronovix, an open source developer portal. She is also one of the organisers of the DevPortal awards. She joins us today to chat about setting up a...

We’ve got an episode for our writers out there today! Ryan Donovan joins us to discuss his 15 years of experience in technical writing, and just how that experience is serving him in his current role - senior content marketer at Stack Overflow. One thing to know about Ryan is that he is a stickler for getting technical details right, a great quality to have in a technical writer. He even stays awa...

Don’t you just love a familiar face? We certainly do here on the Fireside with Voxgig podcast, as we’ve got another guest coming back for a catch-up interview! Sandy Dunlop is a mythology expert and brand identity consultant. He helps brands to define their identity with the help of ancient myths and legends. In his last appearance on the podcast, he told us about the power of storytelling. This t...

Today we’re speaking to Tun Shwe. Tun is the VP of data/DevRel at Quix, and he came on to chat to us about Quix’s work creating real time data developer tools and he also gives us an insight as to his experience working at a completely Python focused company. Catering to only one programming language may sound like a dream (especially to those running APIs and struggling to please everyone), but t...

Stephanie Prenderville is here to tell us why and how generative AI is on its way to making us more human than ever. Stephanie is a talent development director and Founder of People, Strategy and Change consulting. Stephanie’s curiosity, and desire to understand others has taken her across so many industries, but she’s here to tell us about the work she does to improve the way teams work and what...

We’re taking a deeper look inward on this episode of the podcast, with today’s wonderful guest, Julie Hubschman. Julie is the head of developer APIs at FIS. If you haven’t heard of FIS, don’t worry, because if you’ve ever swiped a credit card, then at least you’ve unknowingly used their services. Julie joins us for an introspective discussion on the intersections of tech and finance, building trus...