In the seventh episode of DejaVue, Alex sits down with Team Lead Marc Backes as our guest. Our conversation takes us on a journey through his career with Programming and Vue.js. Marc shares the beginnings of his coding journey, from the development of Software for a Mexican University and lessons learned from founding a startup and eventually joining a German company as freelance developer.

We also dig deeper into the world of Developer Relations (DevRel) and talk about Marc's transition into this field, as well as major achievements such as the CODE100 Coding Competition and the importance of ambassadors for frameworks such as Vue and Nuxt.

Further, Marc sheds light on his decision to leave DevRel and becoming a Tech Lead at the company he's been with twice beforehand. We explore how this transition addressed certain pain points and dive into practical strategies for handling legacy code and technical debt.

Enjoy the episode!

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Our Guest

* Marc Backes
* Twitter -   / themarcba  
* Web - https://marc.dev/

Host

* Alexander Lichter
* YouTube - @TheAlexLichter
* Twitter -   / thealexlichter  
* Web - https://www.lichter.io/

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Chapter marks:

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:04 Public Speaking and Conferences
00:03:15 The Start of Marc's Coding Journey
00:06:49 Building University Admin Software
00:09:42 Startup Founding Lessons
00:13:27 How the Journey Continued
00:20:40 What is DevRel?
00:21:52 Getting into DevRel
00:24:22 Developer Advocate vs Developer Relations
00:27:20 "Framework DevRels" and Ambassadors
00:29:38 CODE100 Coding Competition
00:35:42 Why leaving DevRel?
00:38:28 Becoming a Tech Lead
00:41:44 Did the role change solve the pain points?
00:46:57 How do you handle legacy code and technical debt?
00:52:01 Widen/Narrow approach for migrations
00:54:20 How to please the developer and the business side
00:58:42 Carté blanch for team managing
01:02:30 Wrapping it up


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Links and Resources

▶ dotJS Paris https://www.dotjs.io/
▶ Vue.js Amsterdam https://vuejs.amsterdam/
▶ VueConf US https://vueconf.us/
▶ Ruby on Rails https://rubyonrails.org/
▶ Vue Storefront / Alokai https://alokai.com/
▶ CODE100 Competition
▶ Syntax FM https://syntax.fm/


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