Developer Evangelist's are not PR, Marketing, Sales or Recruiting and they are not coding all of the time either - although there are some of these involved. E

Developer Evangelist's are not PR, Marketing, Sales or Recruiting and they are not coding all of the time either - although there are some of these involved. Essentially a Developer Evangelist's role is like a combination of Business, Product Development, Customer Care and everything that is in-between/connected to those roles. The main role of a developer evangelist though is as a translator. By translator, I mean that they have to explain their product/technology to different audiences in order to get their support. A good developer evangelist gets people/developers excited about a product/technology by pointing out the benefits to the developers who are going to be the ones actually using the product. Thus, developer evangelist's need to be technical because, there is some coding involved in their role and they need to express/find the story in a technical message to get people/developers excited about a product/technology.