Day 1 as NetFoundry’s Senior Developer Advocate

Today is my first day as Senior Developer Advocate at NetFoundry, the company behind OpenZiti. I am thrilled, slightly jet-lagged from the onboarding reading, and (because some things never change)my accordion is within arm’s reach of the desk. If you are going to explain zero trust networking to developers, you might as well have an accordion-powered rock and roll backup plan. This is the post where I tell you what the job is, what the product is, why the name makes me smile, and why I think this is going to be a good couple of years. The short version I am joining the team that invented and maintains OpenZiti, an open source zero trust networking platform. My job, alongside my colleague Clint, is to be the developer-facing voice of the project: write code, build demos, ship tutorials, show up in the communities where the conversations are actually happening, and make sure what we hear from developers gets back to the product and engineering teams in a form they can act on. The…