[siddontang]

I joined a startup 7 years ago as the first employee to build an open-source distributed database and have been working as a chief engineer since then. I write a lot of code, but most of the time I'm actually doing something other than code:

I visit customers to show our product proposition and listen to their requirements, write articles online to introduce our product, participate in meetups to talk about the technical architecture, operate the community to attract contributors, talk to ISVs or other companies about product integration...

Many of them are not programming, but why I still have to do these? I think even we have a good enough product, if nobody knows about it, it is nothing. We must try our best to improve the awareness of our product.

By the way, doing these things also make me grow faster, become more focused and even better at programming. So if you are a Software Engineer, please have a try, this is another kind of fun :-)