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Jhon Paredes

Showing my side project to the CTO.

Originally I was in Marketing as a Web Developer, but was fiddling around with React and Elector during my spare time. I managed to patch together a simplified version of one of our product features using our API. It was a fun side project while I learned new tech. I showed it to our CTO and he offered to switch me to Engineering. Great career move, great support from my company, and it wouldn't have happened if I didn't do show him anything.