Ask Aaishika Anything

Howdy! 👋

I'm Aaishika. I work at Qualcomm, on their Developer Relations team, and I've previously worked in developer advocacy at ngrok and DigitalOcean. A lot of what I enjoy sits somewhere between developer communities, design, code, and Git.

This repository is my open invitation to ask me about any of it.

Things we can talk about

• Product management, product thinking, and working with technical teams
• Developer relations, advocacy, community programs, and developer engagement
• Open source communities and contributing to projects
• Git, GitHub, and what I learned while earning five GitHub certifications
• Technical content, beginner-friendly developer education, events, and content creation
• Design and code, especially the details that make developer experiences feel good
• Hackathons, side projects, and building wonderfully random things
• Career pivots, lessons from past roles, and growing in public
• Tools, workflows, desk setups, and how I organize my work
• Annnd astronomy, cinematography, fitness, or CATS

You can also ask what I'm learning, what I'm building, what has inspired me lately, or something completely unexpected.

Before posting

A few things make a question much easier to answer:

• Search the existing issues first; someone may have already asked it.
• Be specific when you can.
• Add useful context such as screenshots, links, examples, or code wherever applicable.
• Please keep private or sensitive information out of public issues.
• I read everything, but I may not be able to answer every question.

Questions I'd love to receive

• "How did you move between community, developer advocacy, and product?"
• "How would you design a developer program around this product?"
• "What makes technical content genuinely useful to beginners?"
• "How do you measure whether a developer community initiative is working?"
• "Which GitHub certification should I start with?"
• "How do you approach a hackathon when you only have a weekend?"
• "What are you building or learning right now?"
• "What's your current workout routine?"

What belongs elsewhere

This repository isn't the right place for private support requests, urgent troubleshooting, recruiting or referral requests, or bug reports for projects I don't maintain. Please use the relevant project's support channel for those.

How to ask

Open an issue! That easy!

Find me elsewhere

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• Blog

Thanks for stopping by. Ask away! ✨

Inspired by Jhey's AMA.