Introducing Tim Berglund

Tim Berglund is a teacher, author, and tech leader with Confluent, where he serves as the senior director of developer experience. He is also the co-presenter of a bevy of O’Reilly training videos on topics ranging from Git to distributed systems. Tim can be seen speaking at conferences across the U.S. and around the world. Find Tim on Twitter: @tlberglund.

Geertjan Wielenga: Could you start off by explaining what you do?

Tim Berglund: I work for Confluent and I run a team there that we call the "developer experience (DevX) team." It's really a developer relations team, but we call it "DevX" because we think it sounds cool. I have a background as a full-stack Java developer, trainer, and speaker.

Geertjan Wielenga: A basic discussion between people who do this particular profession is whether they describe themselves as "tech evangelists" or "developer advocates." How do you see yourself and what...