I’m speaking at DevRelCon NYC 2026 (July 22 – 23 in Brooklyn)!

DevRelCon NYC is the developer relations conference for North America, it’s happening in Brooklyn on July 22 and 23, and I’m a speaker! Here’s a quick writeup of my talk, as it appears on the schedule: The Market is Trying to Tell You Something The DevRel job market has been sending signals for two years. Most of us have been too busy surviving it to read them. After 15+ years in Developer Relations and a recent job search that took me across a couple dozen companies, I came away with both a new role and something just as valuable: a pattern. Job descriptions have quietly shifted. Hiring panels are asking different questions. “DevRel ROI” means something specific now that it didn’t mean in the zero-interest 2010s or the Great Resignation era of a couple of years ago. The skills companies say they want versus the skills that actually get you hired don’t look like they come from the same list. This talk is an honest, experience-based, practitioner-level read of what the market is…