iVoyeur: Bridge Building

For the last year I’ve worn the title “Developer Evangelist,” which aside from the anxiety you’d expect to accompany any large, sudden, and ill-considered career transformation, has been a fantastic experience.

I’d estimate that about a third of my time is spent in a sort of forensic exploration of my own engineering team. I comb through GitHub commit logs, chatroom scrollback, and sometimes interview my coworkers in search of narratives that I think might become good conference talks, or blog posts. Yes. They actually pay me to do this.