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title: "Supporting Devs Through Advocacy"
description: "Semona describes her transition from Okta Developer Support Engineer to Developer Advocate after three years supporting admins, developers, Independent Software Vendors, and partners integrating with Okta workforce products. Her earlier work included OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, external and social identity providers, SCIM, OIN App Submission, Okta SDKs, the Okta Sign-in Widget, Token Inline Hooks, and Terraform, while cross-functional alliances connected her with Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Solutions Engineering, and Architects. She saw support cases as a way to understand developer problems and collect feedback that could inform improvements. In advocacy, she plans to use that experience to help developers avoid common problems, build community, learn with developers, and advocate for Okta developer community needs, with Python as her favorite programming language."
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# Supporting Devs Through Advocacy

[Okta](https://yomu.fyi/company/okta) · Semona Igama · Jun 6, 2023

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Semona describes her transition from Okta Developer Support Engineer to Developer Advocate after three years supporting admins, developers, Independent Software Vendors, and partners integrating with Okta workforce products. Her earlier work included OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, external and social identity providers, SCIM, OIN App Submission, Okta SDKs, the Okta Sign-in Widget, Token Inline Hooks, and Terraform, while cross-functional alliances connected her with Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Solutions Engineering, and Architects. She saw support cases as a way to understand developer problems and collect feedback that could inform improvements. In advocacy, she plans to use that experience to help developers avoid common problems, build community, learn with developers, and advocate for Okta developer community needs, with Python as her favorite programming language.

## Context

Semona has worked at Okta for three years, first as a Developer Support Engineer and now as a Developer Advocate. She learned Python and JavaScript at Hackbright Academy and built a full-stack capstone application tracking sugar intake.

## Approach / What changed

She will carry support experience into Developer Advocacy by using developer interactions and gathered feedback to help prevent common problems, build community, learn alongside developers, and represent Okta developer community needs.

## Takeaways

- Semona supported integrations involving OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, external and social identity providers, SCIM, OIN App Submission, Okta SDKs, the Okta Sign-in Widget, Token Inline Hooks, and Terraform.
- Her support work involved alliances with Customer Success Managers, Product Teams, Engineering, Solutions Engineers, and Architects.
- She views Developer Advocacy as an opportunity to focus more on community-building, helping developers achieve goals, and learning something new.

## FAQ

### How will Semona’s support background shape her Developer Advocate work?

She plans to use insights from support cases and gathered developer feedback to help developers avoid common problems entirely. She also intends to advocate for developer community needs.

### Which Okta integration technologies has Semona supported?

Her experience includes OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, external and social identity providers, SCIM, OIN App Submission, Okta SDKs, the Okta Sign-in Widget, Token Inline Hooks, and Terraform.

**Tags:** [OAuth 2.0](https://yomu.fyi/topic/oauth-2-0), [Python](https://yomu.fyi/topic/python), [Terraform](https://yomu.fyi/topic/terraform)

- Source: [Okta](https://developer.okta.com/blog/2023/06/06/semona-igama-intro)
- Source URL: https://developer.okta.com/blog/2023/06/06/semona-igama-intro
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-09-17T14:13:10.102Z

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