Is Tech Evangelism Dead Yet Or Can I Be One Too? with Christina Morillo – Ep 108

Christina Murillo started this show as a stranger to us. Within less than an hour, we were in awe of her work within the security community. Christina works in the IT Security scene in NYC – born and raised – and began by asking what a Tech Evangelist is.

Before long, we had a cross-section of what Advocacy, Evangelism and what makes for an opportunity worth exploring. We discuss:

• Tech Evangelist, Developer Evangelism and Developer Advocacy
• Being an engineer in the financial industry
• Being a mother of 3 who contributes a ton of time to community
• What we think an Evangelist does
• Time required before being an Evangelist
• Do you have to do the job first?
• Her contributions to other communities
• How all that matter is that you’re a Geek that’s allowed to speak
• Walmart hiring for their Open Source software (OneOps)
• The gap between marketing and engineering
• Do you have to report to Marketing?
• Can you Evangelize within conservative companies?
• Do you have to be the first?
• Evangelism used to be the type of work that you job out to consultant tech writers… but that changed somehow
• We say millennials way too much
• Understanding marketing as a benefit to Advocacy instead of a defaulting into Marketing Orgs
• Get the job by auditioning for it (in or outside your day job)
• Does Evangelism align best with vendors who sell something as opposed to a company like a bank?
• John Podsplains us on the Finance industry
• Developer Advocacy origins
• What size company do you want to work for? What’s your mix of community and code?
• Are we all imagining the Unicorn of titles without thinking through it?
• Full-time vs part-time Advocacy
• The challenge of “staying technical” as an Advocate or Evangelist
• Her work on Women of Color in Tech stock photos
• Finding the right job and not rushing into it

You can find Christina in a ton of places. She is a co-founder of Women of Color Tech Chat, a Community Manager for CodeNewbies and volunteer for BlackGirlsCode. All of us recommend following her on Twitter, @divinetechygirl, or looking her up on LinkedIn.

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