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Ask HN: How do we grow our career as a Developer Evangelist?
Hi,
I'm really interested in starting off my career as a Developer Evangelist. However, I'm not really sure how to grow it after? Will I be seen as "less of a programmer". Any Evangelists want to share their experience and growth?
- softwarefounder 9y agoThe most effective evangelists are those who have actually used the tools they're speaking of. And I mean more than for "hello word". Let me say this: I went to a meetup several months ago for an Angular event. The speaker was horribly unimpressive; quite literally copy and pasted code from the Angular Demo site in-front of us for the "demo", and couldn't answer in-depth questions. No one liked this "evangelist". In short; have a conviction for what your evangelizing, and dig deep into it.
- catchmeifyoucan 9y agoAh got it. Just know your stuff
- flukus 9y agoBuild up several accounts with karma on places like HN and reddit, that way you can downvote anyone raising criticisms against the technology. Setup google alerts so that you can manipulate discussions as soon as they start. > However, I'm not really sure how to grow it after? Will I be seen as "less of a programmer" Yes, just like the rest of the marketing department you're now part of.
- catchmeifyoucan 9y agoOh :/ I guess I got my hopes up that I could be an engineer along with evangelism