Interview

Yolande Poirier

My name is Yolanda Poirier, and I currently am working at Neo4J. I’m in charge of the community there, globally, but particularly in the US. I’m responsible for meetups, websites, forums – you could call it community, but that’s a fancy word – everything that touches developer communities and data science. Also, the champion program. We have a Discord account, for example. We are running an online conference in the fall, which I’m also involved with, both promotion and the Call for Papers. I’m part of DevRel, which is really nice as well because my counterparts are technical and they help us with all the initiatives. So that’s very nice. And I’ve been doing all of this for quite a while, as you know.

Q: So, this is my question. You’ve been working with communities for quite a while. How did you get started? How did you get involved with communities and working with branding, marketing...