Introducing Ted Neward

Ted Neward’s career has spanned close to three decades, and in that time, he’s keynoted at conferences, written books and many articles, and built out a developer relations team from scratch at Smartsheet (where he worked at the time of this interview). He's now started a new role running a platform strategy team at Quicken Loans, the world’s largest mortgage lender. Over the years, he’s accumulated dozens of laptops, dozens of smartphones and tablets, a working knowledge of at least 10 programming languages and platforms, and a passing knowledge of close to 100 more. Find Ted on Twitter: @tedneward.

Geertjan Wielenga: There's this whole debate that we have about whether we are tech evangelists or developer advocates, which is a topic in itself. How should we describe ourselves?

Ted Neward: The term "evangelist" has always left a little bad taste in my mouth. So often we use the term in a negative fashion. An...