Somebody pinch me - I'm joining DEV! 🎉

A dream I didn't even know I had has come true: I'm joining the DEV team as an Associate Software Engineer! 💃🏾

DEV has played a special, significant role in my journey breaking into Tech. After my bootcamp, I sought to continue developing with other engineers (just like I had during bootcamp). So I decided to join an opensource project with Rails as part of their stack. DEV's was the only opensource project that I managed to successfully configure on my local machine. Their code community warmly welcomed my PR contributions.

I switched my blogging platform from Medium to DEV, and later ran an engaging DEV Ask-Me-Anything about my developer journey. That's when I experienced DEV's rich, diverse, respectful and empowering community.

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When DEV asked me to be one of their community moderators, I got to know some of their core and auxiliary team members. I later applied to my current position, and in full transparency, didn't expect to get far in the process (that's how intimidated I was by their talent). So yes, I was BLOWN to receive their offer.

I'm so excited to seriously level up - as much in humility and empathy as in technical prowess, to serve the DEV community, and to further DEV's purpose however I'm graced to.

Thanks for reading! 😃

Comments

[Ben Halpern]

[Arit Developer]

Kermit's jiggle is #Awesome 😆

[Michael Tharrington]

Welcome to the team, Arit! 😀

I searched for a GIF and found one that's just a tad creepy, haha...

[rhymes]

😂😂😂😂

[Nick Taylor]

Welcome to DEV Arit! So excited that you've joined the team! 🔥

[Ridhwana Khan]

Soooo super excited to have you on the team!

[Andrew Brown 🇨🇦]

🎉🎉🎉

[Christina Gorton]

Switching in to tech while nursing a newborn... Now that I can relate too❤️
Congrats Arit and DEV!

[Andy Zhao (he/him)]

Stoked to have you, Arit! 😄😄😄

[Katie Nelson]

Welcome Arit, from the DEV #welcome tag moderator.

[Jess Lee]

So excited to have you on board :)

[Bavouzet Benoît]

Welcome to DEV team Arit !

[Ryan Smith]

Congrats Arit!

[Sung M. Kim]

🎊🎉🎈 Arit!

[Naya Moss]

This may be my first comment on this website, and I am happy it's to tell congratulations! 🤗🥳

[Arit Developer]

Awwww thank you sis!! ❤

[Naya Moss]

Please keep us all posted, I love sharing your work and progress in my newsletter 🤗

[charles1303]

Congrats and all the very best. 👏👏👏

[Andy Piper]

This is wonderful, congratulations, and keep on making DEV the welcoming community it has always been!

[Richard Schloss]

Congratulations!

[mayank joshi]

Congratulations arit Amanda🥳🥳🥳🥳.

Happy coding journey.

[Dzhavat Ushev]

Congrats! 🎊

[Nick Scialli (he/him)]

Congratulations!

[Jayant Lohani]

Congrats Arit. All the best for future. Keep Rocking.✌

[Hashim Warren]

Wow! Been following your journey, and I'm excited you landed at such a great and growing product/brand

[Arit Developer]

Thank you brother, you're so kind!

[Gracie Gregory (she/her)]

Congrats, Arit! Such a humble, thoughtful post! DEV is lucky to have such an engineer!

[Lee]

This post didn’t half cheer me up this morning 🦄

[Cassey Lottman]

Congrats! 🎉 Sounds like a win for all involved.