However, it's important to keep in mind that patio11's popularity among developer communities is one of the reasons they hired him in the first place. He's paid to be a spokesperson for the company, among other things. He doesn't even try to hide that fact in the article:
> When I was hired, there was a fiction for my business cards but the job rounded to “Do anything required to make Stripe Atlas successful.” ... For about a year I was formally in the Marketing department
However, it's important to keep in mind that patio11's popularity among developer communities is one of the reasons they hired him in the first place. He's paid to be a spokesperson for the company, among other things. He doesn't even try to hide that fact in the article:
> When I was hired, there was a fiction for my business cards but the job rounded to “Do anything required to make Stripe Atlas successful.” ... For about a year I was formally in the Marketing department