Podcast Episode 22

Building Bridges: Inside the Life of a Craft CMS Developer Relations Engineer

April 16, 2025

Guest

Travis Gertz

Duration

1 hr 6 min

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Travis Gertz has been a Developer Relations Engineer at Pixel & Tonic for nine months and didn't know what Dev Rel even was when he applied.

In this episode, he talks about what drew him to the role, walks through what's new in Craft 5.7, explains how he helped write the Craft vs. WordPress page and built the official Craft starters, including a dedicated WordPress starter, and shares how Craft is positioning itself for developers coming from WordPress.

Plus: why the Craft community stands out, and what "caring about the craft" means to him beyond the CMS.

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Thomas Sausen

Web Developer

Self-employed web developer from Germany who started with WordPress websites in 2005, then moved to ExpressionEngine and lost his heart to Craft CMS in 2013. As the founder of Craftentries, he has been covering the Craft ecosystem since 2015.