Home Speaking Teaching under-represented groups to code on Pagely Podcast By Tessa Kriesel Sep 10, 2019 1 min read Teaching under-represented groups to code on Pagely Podcast We discuss Tessa's public speaking experience to dealing with imposter syndrome. As well as discussing a past success story of a developer mentored. In this interview Tessa shares:Her public speaking experienceHow she copes with impostor syndromeA beautiful “where are they now” story of a former student now gainfully employed as a React DeveloperHer experience chairing the speaking selection committee for WCUSThe criteria they used to balance diversity with contentAnd more…Teaching under-represented groups to codeTessa Kriesel is the Community Manager for CircleCI and founder of Outspoken Women and Coders of TMRW. She wears many hats but the consistent theme of her work is empowering […]The Pagely Podcast Read Next By Tessa Kriesel May 12, 2026 How I Deployed Hermes Agent on Railway with Telegram (And Every Gotcha I Hit Along the Way) 10 undocumented gotchas for deploying Hermes agent on Railway with Telegram—from the wrong gateway command to zombie MCP processes to the volume path that wipes your bot's memory on every deploy. Coding & Dev By Tessa Kriesel Mar 20, 2026 I launched Built for Devs on Product Hunt today Developer adoption intelligence for dev tool founders launched today on Product Hunt. Plus a free DevRel Playbook for this community. Working in Tech DevRel & Community By Tessa Kriesel Jan 9, 2026 Every Developer Abandoned This Product in 3 Minutes Ten developers. Five different segments. One product. Every developer abandoned it in three minutes. Developer GTM By Tessa Kriesel May 23, 2025 Developer Relations: Trust is Built in the Trenches, Not Through Marketing Developer relations isn't about marketing tactics. It's about engineers helping engineers build better software through authentic technical partnerships and shared challenges. DevRel & Community
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In this interview Tessa shares:
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