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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Michael Hausenblas.\xa0

Biography

Michael started his career in academia as a PhD academic researcher.\xa0

These days, Michael is a Developer Advocate at AWS. He is part of the container service team, focusing on container security. Michael shares his experience around cloud-native infrastructure and apps through demos, blog posts, books, and public speaking engagements as well as contributes to open-source software.\xa0

Before AWS, Michael worked at Red Hat, Mesosphere,
MapR and in two research institutions in Ireland and Austria.

Episode Summary

\u201cI found that industry overall is way less stressful than academic research. If it\u2019s weekend or if I\u2019m on PTO or whatever, I\u2019m offline.\u201c

\u201cI\u2019m a developer advocate. Basically, it's kind of like a guinea pig. We\u2019re the first ones who get to play around with software and give feedback. It\u2019s like, the UX here is great or here the UX sucks. So we are guinea pigs representing for the customer.\u201d

\u201cI just love to be on-site with customers discussing things, trying things. The greatest part is being with actual users of the software that you\u2019re producing and going over that in 400 level details.\u201d

\u2014Michael Hausenblas

Key Milestones

1. What led Michael into academia and academic research at the start of his career?
2. After about 4 years doing research focused work, Michael left for a startup and took a role doing pre-sales work.\xa0 That\u2019s a pretty far cry from doing research.\xa0 What led to that change and what went into his decision process?
3. \xa0What does a sales engineer do?
4. Now Michael is in a dev advocate role, how does that compare with being a sales engineer?
5. What attracted Michael to more public-facing roles like developer advocacy?
6. Who is Ted Dunning? And why was he such a big influence for Michael?

Additional Resources

Connect with Ted Dunning on LinkedIn \u2013 https://www.linkedin.com/in/teddunning/

Support Us at Develomentor \u2013 https://develomentor.com/support-us/

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