--- title: Long Story Short: I Found My Place Between Code and... description: A new AI Builder Advocate at Okta introduces herself, sharing her journey from backend software developer to developer relations. She covers her technical... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/long-story-short-i-found-my-place-between-code-and-community-ieg7pcwb9 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Long Story Short: I Found My Place Between Code and Community | daily.dev og:description: A new AI Builder Advocate at Okta introduces herself, sharing her journey from backend software developer to developer relations. She covers her technical... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/long-story-short-i-found-my-place-between-code-and-community-ieg7pcwb9 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/iEg7pcwB9.png og:image:alt: Long Story Short: I Found My Place Between Code and Community og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Long Story Short: I Found My Place Between Code and Community **[Okta Dev](https://daily.dev/sources/okta)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A new AI Builder Advocate at Okta introduces herself, sharing her journey from backend software developer to developer relations. She covers her technical background in Java, Spring Boot, Quarkus, Kubernetes, and Docker, her community work as a MongoDB Champion, and her excitement about the intersection of identity, security, and AI at Okta. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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