In celebration of my 1 year anniversary with Microsoft (who’d have thunk?), I sat down with the man that started it all: Jesse Liberty, to attempt to answer the question, “what exactly does an Evangelist for Startups do?”

Yet Another Podcast #30 Abby Fichtner–Microsoft Evangelist

Abby Fichtner is a Microsoft Evangelist specializing in startups in the New England area.
She joined Microsoft recently after a fateful discussion with Jesse at CodeMash 2010, and discusses Startups, Agile programming and being a Microsoft Evangelist.

I wrote the start of this post after returning from a full day of interviews, what Microsoft has endearingly termed Finals Day… I had no idea I’d actually get to post it now, 2 weeks later, as I get ready to start this awesome new job…

I just got back from my Finals Day with Microsoft. I’m interviewing for a Developer Evangelist position, which is beyond exciting. Not to mention a tad mind blowing. If anyone had told me a few months ago I’d be interviewing for this job I would have laughed them right out of the room.

And yet, here I am. So, in the spirit of fellow hax0r turned Microsoft Evangelist, Joey DeVilla (aka @AccordionGuy), I thought I’d blog about just WTF I’m thinking.

If you’ve read anything of mine, you probably know my shtick, I like to say:

"Java, C#, C/C++… it ain’t about the language but the wonderful things we build."

And this is true – for languages, platforms, technologies, practices… I pride myself on being technology agnostic and just picking the right tool for the right job.

So, how am I interviewing for a Microsoft Evangelist role?? Good question! Let’s step back into our WABAC machine…

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