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title: "The One Where I Found My Way to DevRel"
description: "The author recounts a career path from creative interests and technical writing to developer relations, emphasizing that storytelling remained central while the audience changed. She began by producing API documentation, user guides, onboarding content, and other developer resources, then joined JDoodle, where conversations with developers shifted her focus from writing for them to connecting with them. Attending events and conferences, giving product demos, staffing booths, participating in community conversations, organizing hackathons, and running internal events helped her discover that developer advocacy matched her strengths in empathy, clear storytelling, and helping people succeed. She now announces a new role at Okta, where she will work with developers, creators, builders, and community members in identity and security while creating content, attending events, learning, and building connections."
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# The One Where I Found My Way to DevRel

[Okta](https://yomu.fyi/company/okta) · Zahwah Jameel · Jun 5, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

The author recounts a career path from creative interests and technical writing to developer relations, emphasizing that storytelling remained central while the audience changed. She began by producing API documentation, user guides, onboarding content, and other developer resources, then joined JDoodle, where conversations with developers shifted her focus from writing for them to connecting with them. Attending events and conferences, giving product demos, staffing booths, participating in community conversations, organizing hackathons, and running internal events helped her discover that developer advocacy matched her strengths in empathy, clear storytelling, and helping people succeed. She now announces a new role at Okta, where she will work with developers, creators, builders, and community members in identity and security while creating content, attending events, learning, and building connections.

## Context

The author wanted to understand developers better for documentation but found through conversations and community activities that connecting with people was the part of the work she enjoyed most.

## Approach / What changed

She moved from technical writing into developer advocacy through developer events, conferences, product demos, booth duty, community conversations, hackathons, and internal event organization.

## Takeaways

- The author’s technical writing work included API documentation, user guides, onboarding content, and other developer-facing resources.
- Developer advocacy and documentation both rely on empathy, understanding the audience, clear storytelling, and helping people succeed.
- In her new role at Okta, the author plans to create content, attend events, learn, and connect with communities focused on identity and security.

**Tags:** [Developer Experience](https://yomu.fyi/topic/developer-experience), [Documentation](https://yomu.fyi/topic/documentation), [Security](https://yomu.fyi/topic/security)

- Source: [Okta](https://developer.okta.com/blog/2026/06/05/zahwah-intro-blog)
- Source URL: https://developer.okta.com/blog/2026/06/05/zahwah-intro-blog
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-09-09T08:43:13.317Z

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