Course details
DevRel
Learn what developer advocates actually do and the everyday skills the job runs on. You follow Meera, the first developer advocate at Rainkit, a rain-forecast API, as she speaks, writes, codes and builds a community around it.
Course curriculum
What is DevRel?5 lessons
Meet the job: advocacy that runs both ways, how DevRel grew out of platform evangelism, teaching through content, the developer journey and how each step feels, and the loop that turns community questions into product change.
Public Speaking and Presentation Techniques5 lessons
Shape a talk for one audience with one message and one next step, then plan it with a mind map, structure it in threes, tell it as a story, and design slides that show one idea at a time, including the PechaKucha format.
Writing Skills4 lessons
Write for readers who scan: lead with their task and cut the rest, match each documentation page to the need it serves, plan blog posts from promise to proof, and make social posts that are useful before anyone clicks.
Programming, APIs and SDKs4 lessons
Learn the programming baseline an advocate needs and the minimal reproduction, read any API call in five parts, design SDKs that feel native to each language, and document an endpoint so its examples work on the first paste.
Community Engagement3 lessons
Network by being useful first, take part in online communities as a genuine member, and treat every event as three jobs: preparing before, engaging during and following up after.
Engaging an Audience and Handling Q&A3 lessons
Open with a hook and keep attention with contrast, make the key message stick through reinforcement and a good handout, and handle questions, hostile ones included, by listening, repeating, answering briefly and parking what derails.