Taylor Barnett is a Staff Developer Advocate at PlanetScale. She is passionate about building great developer experiences with an emphasis on empathy and inclusion within product, documentation, and other community-focused projects. Taylor has worked on various data and API-focused products in software development and developer relations for the past eight years.
I’ve seen many kinds of exclusionary nerdery in companies and communities firsthand, like, “Oh, you’ve never used a floppy disk?!” At the same time, I’ve found myself on the other side of a young developer asking me what came before “serverless.” And I had to ensure I was not like, “What?!” This talk is about our industry’s ability (or lack thereof) to communicate and tell stories about our history, exclusionary nerdery, and building teams and communities that embrace different experience levels.
