2021 In Review, Huge milestones! 🥳

#yearinreview

This year was probably the most impactful year so far, from Open Source to Career every aspect of my life got improved one way or another.
As the year ends I want to look back at my achievements and celebrate the end of the year with this blogpost.

Milestones of 2021

Got an amazing job at Razorpay
Selected for GitHub India Open Source grants program
github-readme-stats
- hit 10million requests per month
- hit 35k stars on github
Speaking
- Talked about Advanced TypeScript at Tech Talks With Santosh
- Spoke at React Summit 2021 with some of the wonderful panelist
- Spoke at ReactFinland about building flexible component libraries
Got a lot of support from people via GitHub Sponsors
Bought a new phone
Graduated from college
Donated to to people who are in need via TeamSeas, GiveIndia.
Made few beautiful 3D artworks & started voxel modelling
Learned about advanced GLSL Shaders
Learned and deep dived into building compilers & parsers
Leveled up my TypeScript skills & tweeted a ton of things
Participated in GitHub Actions Hackathon 2021
Wrote a blogpost about my interview experience at Razorpay
Took my first ever interview of a candidate at razorpay
Connected with lots of amazing people on twitter & made new friends. <3

Other Random Stuff I Did

Bought anuraghazra.dev domain
Learned more about web accessibility
Started writing a card builder for github-readme-stats
Bought my first ever book planning on starting a reading habit.
Bought a lot of house appliances :)
Built few small experimental projects
Built a toy programming language

Aaaaandddd... That's a wrap!

This year was full of great achievements & learning.
But one of my greatest achievement is the smile which I was able to put in my mom's face, it's just a wonderful achievement which is above every other thing and I thrive to continue keeping that smile always.

I also wanted to thanks few of the notable people who impacted my year in a positive year.
Huge Thanks to Santosh, Kamlesh, Divyanshu, Saurabh for supporting & encouraging me.

Happy New Year! Cheers! 🥂

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