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How Did I Become a Developer Advocate?

Rizèl Scarlett on February 06, 2022

Ever since I posted this tweet, friends, acquaintances, and random strangers have reached out to me asking some version of the same question: "How...
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Shai Almog

Very cool!

I love how the experiences we have can be so radically different and lead to similar places.

Most people just ask me: "What the hell is a developer advocate? What do you do?". I think my journey is a bit too intimidating for most developers so they feel they can't pick up this field. Bookmarked your post as it seems like a more friendly/accessible introduction.

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Rizèl Scarlett

Yay, I'm glad that it's a friendly introduction, and it is crazy how all these different paths can lead to developer advocacy. It's extremely hard to help people get into this role, so this blog post was the best I could do. Hopefully, in the future, I'll have better advice.

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Shai Almog

It's already great!

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nil nayan

great

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nil nayan

great

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Jackson Kasi • Edited

madam how did you make the cartoon character on the thumbnail. I mean how to make the anime character with out illustrator or photoshop? Plz Ans me madam 🙏.

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Rizèl Scarlett

Ha, I used bitmoji and Snapchat. That's just my character on Snapchat, and then I downloaded the bitmoji extension and copied and pasted the image of the character onto Canva.

Here's the link to the bitmoji extension: chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/...
Here's the link to Canva: canva.com/

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Jackson Kasi

thanks madam 😊😊😊

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Pavan Belagatti

Amazing, I can connect with you. I got hired as a developer advocate at Harness last year in December and it's a fun space to be. Helping developers and customers pick the best solutions and helping them solve their problems make me feel good about what I am doing.

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Rizèl Scarlett

I would love to connect with you!! It is such a fun space.

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Anthony

Nice post! It takes time and perseverance. Stuff won't happen overnight.

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Rizèl Scarlett

Yeah, sometimes for some people it happens overnight, but for my life -- I've had to work hard at it.

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Kendra Wing

I love your post!

I really appreciate reading about your journey and getting advice. You have a lot of great knowledge and insight in the Dev Relations realm. I'm a new Developer grad and Developer Advocacy really appeals to me. I worked in customer service before graduating and the idea of using that experience with my new coding skills in a new career is really appealing.

Do you have any advice on how to find a knowledgable Developer Advocate that would mentor a newbie?

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Hugo

Hi, love this post, full of experiences, what a journey!
By the way, mergify.com, the most powerful merge queue for GitHub (offering speculative checks, batch merges, and multiple queueing options) is looking for a new developer advocate!
Contact me hugo.escafit@mergify.com if you are interested! :)

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Nicole Rae Drummond

Thank you for sharing your path, Rizèl - so inspiring!

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leob

Not an easy trajectory - hats off for keeping your head down and seeing it through ... you've certainly put in the work, to use an understatement!

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Emma Donery

Inspiring.#Do not sell yourself short. Thank you for this amazing article. Developer advocate has always been my dream job

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nil nayan

nice

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nil nayan

very cool