215: Staying Technical as a Manager

Software engineers that move into leadership roles have a struggle between learning leadership skills, maintaining technical skills, and learning new leadership and technical skills. 
Matt Makai went from individual contributor to developer relations to leadership in devrel. 
We discuss how to stay technical, as well as dive into some results of his studies in how companies use developer relationship channels.

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Creators and Guests

Brian Okken
Host
Brian Okken
Software Engineer, also on Python Bytes and Python People podcasts
Matt Makai
Guest
Matt Makai
VP of DevRel & DX at AssemblyAI. Software developer. FullStackPython creator.
215: Staying Technical as a Manager
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