As I dive into continuing my education in product development and product strategy, I find myself not just researching a past history of what has been created - but reaching out to those who are actively practicing the art, and discovering what I may need to do to get there....
Erin Mikail Staples is a developer experience engineer, stand-up comedian and dog mom living in Brooklyn, NYC🗽 by way of Reno, NV 🤠.
In her 9-5, she works as a ✨ a Developer Experience Engineer✨ at LaunchDarkly. Her work includes contributions to technical demos and content, faciliating relationships with developer communities, among other fun shenanigans. After hours, Erin hosts the DevRel(ish) podcast, and performs and produces comedy in NYC.
Erin's various shenanigans have taken her to speaking at events like PyData Berlin, and PyCon, garnered Jeff Staple's attention, appeared in The New York Times, broadcasted across the sound waves on the Practical AI podcast, or in USA Today's Storytellers Project, exist in the archive of the Museum of Alternate History and her mom's dogs's Instagram account.
And I’ve been reflecting more and more on a Virtual Mall created with Marco Marandiz for Elliot, and thinking about how it all worked. I wrote about the reasons we went for a Virtual Mall in a Medium post that can be read here, however, I think the root of this all lies in community engagement....