Early Stage DevRel with Brandon West

Brandon West joined SendGrid, a customer communication platform for transactional and marketing email in 2011 as their first Developer Evangelist. Since then he’s had a brilliant career, working at AWS and CoScreen, which has just been acquired by Datadog. 

Brandon West

Brandon West is among the most qualified people on the planet to tell you how to become more popular with developers. In this episode of Scaling DevTools we discuss what DevRel looks like in the early stages, how to build credibility and learnings from passed roles.

What we cover

(00:57): What does DevRel look like at startups at the earliest stage? 
(05:13): How do you balance doing the right things and building credibility with the fact that you're also willing to push and demo things, which aren't perfect yet. 
(07:13): What was it like when you were at SendGrid? 
(11:46): What did the relationship look like with the product team?

(17:04): Where can people learn more?

Guest links

Twitter: @bwest
Site link: http://bwe.st

DataDog: https://www.datadoghq.com/
CoScreen: https://www.coscreen.co/

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