Technical content
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Produces tutorials, talks, videos, and blog posts developers trust.
Course coverage
- Technical Writing
- Developer Blogging and Video Content (planned)
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Product and design
Developer Advocate
Bridges a product and its developer community through content, code, and feedback loops that improve developer experience.
Skill coverage
86%
Course coverage
43%
Skill coverage shows how much of the role's capability map already has a published course. Course coverage shows how much of the mapped course pipeline for this role has shipped.
- Role skills
- 7
- Published coverage
- 6
- Relevant courses
- 6
Capability map
Skills
Importance describes how central each capability is to the role. Course coverage shows where you can build the skill in the current OpenSkills catalog.
01
Community and content
4 capabilities
Public speaking
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Presents at conferences, meetups, and streams with clarity and energy.
Course coverage
- Technical Presentations, Live Coding and Demo Delivery (planned)
Community engagement
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Builds and nurtures developer communities across channels.
Course coverage
- Developer Community Building
- Community Platform and Forum Management (planned)
Developer education
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Designs learning paths, workshops, and hands-on labs.
Course coverage
- Developer Education
- Workshop and Lab Facilitation (planned)
02
Product feedback
3 capabilities
Sample code
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Writes demos, SDK-quality examples, and reference integrations.
Course coverage
- Developer Code SamplesFree
- Samples Repository Management (planned)
Feedback loops
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Channels community pain points into actionable product input.
Course coverage
- Developer Feedback Programs
- Feedback Triage and Product Routing (planned)
Developer experience advocacy
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Audits onboarding, docs, and APIs from the developer's perspective.
Course coverage
- Developer ExperienceFree
- Developer Experience Audits (planned)
Learning path
Relevant courses
Core foundations
The concepts this role is built on.
- Developer Code SamplesFree
- Developer Community Building
- Developer Education
- Developer Feedback Programs
- Technical Writing
- Technical Presentations (planned)
Supporting knowledge
Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.
- Developer ExperienceFree
- Community Platform and Forum Management, Developer Blogging and Video Content, Developer Experience Audits, Feedback Triage and Product Routing, Live Coding and Demo Delivery, Samples Repository Management, Workshop and Lab Facilitation (planned)
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