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I lucked into a position at Microsoft as a Developer Evangelist. I had no idea what Evangelism before joining there. I realized I love the things that came along with it: talking to people, teaching, speaking, creating content, etc.

There's not really a specific day to day. It varies every day, especially now with everything going on in the world. Here's a few of the things we do.

• teaching, speaking, creating content, talking to developers, learning about Identity, building demos, collaborating with other developers

Growing Auth0

• Jwt.io
• Starting to do live streams
• Speaking at and sponsoring conferences
• Many libraries and sdks

I'm a self-taught developer, got my first full-stack job about 5 and a half years ago and mostly focused C# and JavaScript (especially Angular). I launched a video course in 2018 called upgradingangularjs.com and started writing guest posts about it a bunch of places, including Auth0. They reached out to me about a full-time content job and I jumped at the chance and joined in August 2018. Then about August 2019 Auth0 re-organized the Marketing department, and it made sense for me to move over to Developer Relations since I was doing a lot of speaking at conferences as a Google Developer Expert.

Our day-to-day is usually focused on applying at and speaking at conferences and meetups, but these days we've shifted to mostly remote: remote conferences and meetups, podcasts, Twitch streaming, etc. We also build programs like Auth0 Ambassadors (auth0.com/ambassador-program).

Building the community happens through a number of ways:

• Teaching through conferences/meetups/etc (whether identity or otherwise)
• Our community forum (community.auth0.com)
• Open source libraries
• Tools like jwt.io
• The Auth0 blog (auth0.com/blog)

I'm sure I'm forgetting something in there, too. Hope that helps, feel free to ask me whatever on Twitter (twitter.com/samjulien).