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At StackBlitz, Developer Relations is its own organization nested within Product and with close ties to every other unit, from marketing to DevEx, from Engineering to People Ops. This placement ensures that we are capable to get advice, share feedback, or brainstorm with others. It also means that you’re not alone in your endeavors.

At StackBlitz, Developer Advocates are DevRel generalists with a specialization. You oversee a domain within the Developer Relations organization but also actively participate in other tasks and in the company life. We understand the Developer Relations as both internal and external endeavor: advocating for our users to our team members, advocating for our products to our users, and advocating for the wellbeing of the engineers on our team.

Working at Developer Relations at StackBlitz requires deep empathy and strong belief that the world is a better place if we collaborate and share the spotlight. To excel in this organization, you should have (or develop) an instinct for connecting the dots and bringing people together - giving visibility to our engineers when talking about the results of their work, creating opportunities for our community members to shine, inviting others to join your adventures.

The key values informing our day-to-day work are: integrity, honesty, transparency, and kindness. These are reflected in anything from the ETAs we provide to internal strategizing.

We recognize that every person is different and that this is reflected in how you achieve your goals. Ideally, you’d be open to consider all of the tasks typically associated with DevRel (blogging, docs, conferences, streaming, podcasts, meetups, and so on) but being a generalist with a specialization means that there is time for you to grow in the areas beyond your specialization.

StackBlitz was founded by childhood friends, Eric Simons and Albert Pai in 2018. You can see them two give a presentation of the first StackBlitz editor version (prior to WebContainers), Eric and Dom Elm talk about WebContainers, or recently present Codeflow. Fast forward five years and StackBlitz recently raised $7.1 mln and our team grew to 22 team members spread across three continents.

Developer Relations as a separate organization was formally established around a year ago, with Sylwia Vargas being the first DevRel hire (in November 2021) and growing it from the grounds up. Primarily a developer, writer and documentarian, she gave a few talks - you can see her talk about Web Publisher, one on the history of WebContainers, her understanding of what a community is, or her attitude towards comfort at work.

Given StackBlitz’s commitment to Open source, StackBlitz is involved in multiple ways with the Open Source community. One of this ways resulted in Vite’s core team member, Matias Capeletto (known as Patak), joining the DevRel team where he advocates for both communities. You can see Matias talk about Vite here.

Two years ago StackBlitz released WebContainers, which recently reached stability. We are now focused on wide community adoption. This means being present at key events, streams, podcasts, creating tutorials and walkthroughs, and finding ways for people to use StackBlitz and associate StackBlitz with daily tasks.

Some of your tasks will also come from other DevRel specializations, for example docs audits or Discord participation. The goal here is that every Developer Advocate can be a resource to the rest of the team - and also that everyone can explore and grow in different careers within the field.