GitGuardian’s Dwayne McDaniel: Ignore Marketing Websites and Jump Straight to Documentation

Let's start with you. Who are you, what do you do, and what does your company build?

I'm Dwayne McDaniel, Principal Developer Advocate at GitGuardian. I help people figure stuff out. I see that as my entire mission. I am very happy to help people learn better practices around secret security.

GitGuardian, the company I work for, builds a platform that helps people define and deal with their credential layer. We see ourselves as a credential layer security platform that helps teams discover, remediate, and prevent hard-coded secrets from sprawling.

What does DevRel actually mean to you? Is it marketing, engineering, product, or something else entirely?

DevRel to me means helping people figure stuff out. That takes many forms and involves many activities.

I used to be a sales rep who was good at explaining things but who didn't care for some of the other aspects of that role....

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