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Author: Alex Patterson

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-## Questions
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-1. Can you tell us more about yourself?
-2. What is a DXE?
-   1. How do you avoid getting sucked into the marketing side?
-3. When did you start working on Jamstack dev community?
-4. What tools do you use for community building?
-5. Where to start building a developer community?
+# Growing Dev Communities and Becoming a DX Engineer with Dom and Brittany
+
+Welcome back to another episode of Coding Cat Dev Snacks! Today we have Alex Patterson and Brittany Postma joining us. This episode is brought to you by Storyblock - the flexible content platform that lets developers focus on code while content teams manage content independently.
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+Alex and Brittany will be discussing growing developer communities and becoming a developer experience (DX) engineer. Let's dive in!
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+## Starting and Growing Developer Communities
+
+Alex has extensive experience building developer communities. It started with gaming communities when he was a teenager. He eventually created a large alumni community called Bootcamped for people who went to coding bootcamps. This helped him network and find jobs after his own bootcamp experience.
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+Later on Alex started the popular [Reactadelphia](https://twitter.com/reactadelphia) meetup group that brought together 100 local developers and another 70-100 remote attendees each month. He live streamed the talks before it was common so remote viewers could participate.
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+Some key takeaways on starting a dev community:
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+- Use Discord over Slack. Public communities don't work well in Slack.
+- Consider self-hosted options instead of Meetup.com to have more control.
+- Focus on safety and inclusion. Enforce a strong code of conduct.
+- Don't worry about huge numbers of people - quality over quantity.
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+Brittany also organizes the Svelte community and highlights the importance of being a liaison between the external community and your company's internal teams. Gathering feedback and conveying pain points helps improve products for the community.
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+## Becoming a Developer Experience (DX) Engineer
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+Alex explains that a DX Engineer decodes internal product messaging and launches to make them resonate with the external community. They serve as "customer zero" to catch bugs and test new features from a beginner perspective.
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+DX Engineers build trust so the community will listen and want to learn from them. He prioritizes caring about the community over company sales goals.
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+Brittany agrees and thinks DX is about the whole journey developers go through using a product. At Netlify they focus on connecting product teams to the community.
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+## Other Key Discussion Topics
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+- How to balance promoting your company's product vs competitors
+- Moderating communities effectively but fairly
+- Equity compensation and stock options in startups