Jeff Barr, the Chief Evangelist at Amazon Web Services, strikes me as my model for a Developer Evangelist. Communicator, connector, storyteller, passionate. He

Jeff Barr, the Chief Evangelist at Amazon Web Services, strikes me as my model for a Developer Evangelist. Communicator, connector, storyteller, passionate. He gave a very good presentation on Amazon Web Services. Not just technical content but enough marketing content to make you feel like AWS was something worth investing your technical learning time in. If someone had a question about S3/EC2 that he could answer, he answered it to the best of his ability. More importantly, if someone had a question he could not answer, he stated that he did not know the answer and he knew someone on the larger AWS team that he could (and would) get the person in contact with (if they gave them their business card after the meeting). In his talk, Jeff threw in some entertaining anecdotal/behind the scenes stories about AWS. For example, Smugmug (at the time) was charging all of its AWS fees on a Corporate Amex card. Which qualified them for multiple round-trip airplane tickets to Europe or wherever every month. For the developers in the audience who weren't using AWS, I felt like this was another positive push towards the tipping point to start using it - even if our current jobs were not cloud-oriented. And, boy, he was passionate. Not in the sense of Steve Ballmer yelling at developers but evangelical in wanting to spread the good word of AWS.