Re:Ask HN: What is a "developer evangelist"?
by ecspike on Saturday March 23, 2013 @10:43AM
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It depends on the role. It can range from a tech-aware marketeer to an actual software engineer by trade who writes code samples and materials for the company's website or some combination there of.
Re:Ask HN: What is a "developer evangelist"?
by metajack on Saturday March 23, 2013 @10:42AM
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It may be a role focused on hype, but many of the people who hold these roles are developers themselves. I have no idea if Adria codes, but many evangelists are more than just marketers. This is true of any job–you never know who is a programmer–but developer relations people more so than many.
Where "Christian" you can put whichever company grows along with it's API/code/lib usage and utilization by others.
As I see it it's a purely "hype" role and it's essentially a tech-aware marketeer seeking to attract fellow developers and engineers to work and experiment with his company's platform and products.