The Developer's Edge

In the season finale of Developer’s Edge, we meet Anthony Fu, fanatical open sourcer working at NuxtLabs. Anthony and his team provide an open source framework to build fast and high performing websites and applications based on Vue.js to help frontend developers with some of the difficulties involved in Vue.js application development.

Adam DuVander, Principal Consultant of EveryDeveloper explains how his technical content strategy is successful in helping marketers attract developers.

48 hours to create magic: Meet the man behind the greatest game jam of our time.  In this special episode of Developer's Edge, Chucks talks with Mike Kasprzak, owner of ldjam.com and founder of Ludum Dare, the platform for game jams where game developers come together to develop a game within a short time period.

SJ Morris describes community as a pillar of developer relations and a place developers come to share ideas and support each other. In this episode, SJ talks with Chuck about how she’s successfully enabled developers to connect with each other and how she measures health and value of community.

Creative Director and Co-Founder at Bunnyhug Ltd Zachary Soares is a self-taught Voxel artist and animator with a background in Urban Design. In this episode Zachary enlightens Chuck on the pros of Voxel art and how he works with developers. 

Akamai delivers content for some of the world’s biggest gaming companies and is hosting a contest to build a game scene using the voxel desktop template. Enter for a chance to win a Razer gaming laptop, gaming chair, and more: https://bit.ly/3JC9kFF.

Chief Evangelist for Postman Kin Lane has had a long career in studying the technology, business and politics of APIs. In this week’s Developer’s Edge, Kin talks to his passion for APIs and how his work at Postman has had a profound impact on the developer community.

“We are taking a look at our documentation, how people flow through it and the time that they're spending on each page so that we can make informed decisions about how we in developer experience want to evolve” Amara Graham, Head of Developer Experience at  Camunda, shares with Chuck on this week’s Developer’s Edge.  

On this week’s Developer’s Edge, Amara Graham, Head of Developer Experience at Camunda, talks with Chuck about her passion for all aspects of Developer Relations. Starting with a pivot from developer to community manager, to advocate, and now focusing on improving the developer’s journey, Amara shares insight about enablement metrics, how developers can adapt, & influence changes internally to make documentation easier and more efficient to consume.

Welcome to Developer’s Edge season 3! This season we are branching out, talking to friends & colleagues in the community that empower and engage developers. In this episode, Chuck talks with special guest Dan Butchko, CEO of Playcrafting, whose passion for gameplay and the creative community has created countless opportunities for creative developers and innovative platforms.

This week on DevEdge we meet Natasha Perez, Customer Success Manager at Akamai. She is very passionate about enabling developers and also enabling puppies!

"I really like to teach people. I enjoy teaching and resolving problems: problems that people have in their day-to-day work." Jose Ortiz, Solutions Engineer tells Chuck in this week's episode of Developer's Edge.

On this week's Developer Edge, David Theobald talks about a customer-facing slack workspace where people can chat with the Edge Computing team's engineers, architects, and product owners.

"There is an internal shift where we realized we needed to review our own products and find the places where we are lacking in order to improve the developer experience," Pawani Damarla, Senior Product Manager tells Chuck on this week's Developer's Edge.

"I recommend everyone that is interested to just get involved and just build something. Build something you want to see in the world" Austin, Senior Developer Advocate advises people in the latest Developer's Edge Interview.

This week Chuck talks shop with Senior Director of Technical Marketing Jesse Freeman. Jesse explains how his love for building machines and developing game engines has brought him to a role in leadership where he pushes the company, the platform, and the advocacy team to strive to do better.

"Over the past year, we migrated our content to a platform that enables us to do more for developers specifically,” Beth Favini Senior Director of UX Technical Writing and Learning tells Chuck in the most recent episode of Developer’s Edge.

In our exciting season one finale of Developer’s Edge, Director of Solutions Engineering Limor Sinay provides her insight on important topics including bringing diversity into tech, offers guidance from her experience moving into a leadership role, and shares her loyalties when it comes to New York vs Boston sports teams.

In this week’s episode of Developer's Edge, Akamai’s Technical Marketing Engineer  Mike Schiessl joins Chuck Freedman to talk about how companies work security into their strategy, the relationship between DevOps and DevSecOps roles and tools, and the best practices on how teams can sharpen their security skills and readiness through training and gamification.

Welcome to the Developer’s Edge, where we get to look into the lives of developers and learn what makes them tick. From being the best in their class to solving worldwide internet problems, our developers will share stories viewers won’t want to miss.

In this week's episode, Senior Enterprise Architect Anthony Hogg explains how a Philosophy degree can turn into working with computers and provides useful resources for customers.

It takes a great developer to enable others. This week we meet Josh Johnson, Sr Enterprise Architect, whose love for technology and coding has brought him to Akamai. Josh and Chuck discuss best practices for code review, what it’s like revisiting your own code, and what a developer-first approach means for the Akamai developer community.

How do you prioritize feedback from developers to ensure your APIs and tools are enabling success? Chuck talks with Akamai’s Senior Service Architect Prachi Shah about her important role, and her skilled approach to listening, communication, innovation and cake making!

As subscriptions to online video streaming services surpassed 1 billion last year, Akamai continues to play a vital role in enabling media companies and their developers to deliver movies and shows. In this week’s episode, Chuck Freedman gets technical with special guest Tedd Smith, Solutions Engineer at Akamai, to talk about how streaming works, his go-to resources for supporting customers, and the spark that drives him to keep learning.

In the 2nd episode of The Developer’s Edge, Chuck has a conversation with teammate Mike Elissen, Developer Advocate at Akamai Technologies. Mike shares his approach for tackling new technologies, solving problems, and sharing knowledge with others who are developing for performance, optimization, and security.

In this week’s premiere episode, Akamai’s Director of Developer Advocacy Chuck Freedman welcomes Tim Vereecke, Web Performance Architect at Akamai and a leading member of Akamai’s Developer Champions group. Listen to learn how he spreads his passion for programming to his family, and what resources he used when coding.