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Welcome Thread - v381

Sloan the DEV Moderator on June 24, 2026

Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're learning, or just a fun fact about yourself. Re...

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Edited

Welcome everyone to dev.to! Glad you are here! Hope you are well! Mental Health is important always a good idea to take breaks if needed! Also, eat and drink if you need to :D

To get started, I recommend reading this guide on making the most out of dev.to!

Make sure to check out other resources here: dev.to/help/community-resources


Feature Comment from last week thread!

Last week, I asked the community "What is the hardest bug that you have to encounter as a developer? Did you fix it?" and here is one answer that stood out to me by @codegax on finding the bug but hard to prove the bug exist!

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Axel Jun 17

Hi! Thanks for all the help and articles to get started!

For me the hardest bugs are rarely the most complex ones but the ones you can't reproduce consistently and only show up under very specific conditions 😠

Recently we had a race condition in production. It never showed up in development or QA, only under real load. The hardest part was proving it existed. We eventually traced it to concurrent updates hitting the same resource and fixed it with proper concurrency controls.


Question of the Week!

"What's your favorite IDE to work with when programming?"

The comment will be featured on the next Welcome Thread!


Thanks for stopping by! Feel free to introduce yourself and welcome others by replying to at least 2 people! It would be greatly appreciated! :D

Any questions about DEV from a DEV Community Mod perspective? Leave a comment and come chat here!

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Topurrra

Hello Everyone 👋🏻

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Mathias Onea

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Liu Caiyuan

Hello!

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Alexander Wang

hello!

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

Welcome welcome!!!

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wloadctl

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Ryan Smee

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Cathlyn Olofernes

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Cathlyn, a Talent Acquisition Specialist. I'm here to connect with talented developers, technical writers, SEO specialists, designers, and video editors who are interested in collaborating with startups and technology companies.

I'm always excited to meet passionate people, learn about their work, and build meaningful professional connections. Looking forward to engaging with the community and discovering great talent. 😊

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Cathlyn, welcome to DEV 👋

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Jyoti Pathak

Hello everyone,

I work on Vault at Hyperiux which is basically a collection of ready-to-use UI components and creative web elements for developers who want to build faster without starting from a blank canvas every time.

I’m here to connect with builders, designers, frontend devs, and creative coders, and to learn more about how people actually discover, use, customise, and think about components in real projects.

I’m especially interested in the space between design and development: how a small interaction, animation, or visual detail can make a website feel more alive.

Excited to be here, learn from the community, share what we’re building, and hopefully contribute useful ideas along the way.

Fun fact about me I enjoy studying tiny UI details more than is reasonable.

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Jyoti, welcome to DEV 👋

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Pascal Reitermann

Hey everyone! 👋 Long-time reader, first time actually introducing myself.
What brought me here: I write about event-driven architecture and observability, and dev.to has become my home for that. Today, I published a piece on giving the Solace Prometheus Exporter a better pipeline. I'm an Architect at Solace, ~10 years deep in DevOps and integration engineering, based in Germany.

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Gustavo Mantovani

I will probably read it later. I enjoy prometheus....

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Mhamd Ghanoum • Edited

That sound interesting! Looking forward to your articles.

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Shrouk Abozeid

Hey everyone👋🏻i always read but i don't write so i though why not do both , so lets see where does it take us

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Shrouk, welcome to DEV 👋

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Neha

Hello World to DEV Community!!!

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Neha, welcome to DEV 👋

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Pulla Indira Keerthana • Edited

👋 Hi everyone! I'm Indira, a CS student. Excited to be part of the Dev.to community and looking forward to learning from all of you.

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Indira, welcome to DEV 👋

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Bastiaan van Gent

Hello everyone! 👋
My name is Bastiaan van Gent. I'm currently developing various ideas and projects from HustlePay and Airport51 to IndAPPendent, plus some fun gadget tools on the side.
I'm really hoping dev.to becomes a place where I can get inspired, share thoughts, and discuss ideas with like-minded people. Looking forward to connecting with you all! Cheers 🍻

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Krithika Murugesan

hello

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Bunny

Looking forward to your article!

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Bastiaan van Gent

Working on it ! 👍️🍻

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Mohammed Elkarsh

Hi everyone, I’m Mohammed. I’m a Laravel developer working on open-source SaaS projects and multi-tenant app tooling.
I joined DEV to share what I’m building, write about real engineering lessons, and connect with other developers. Glad to be here.

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Anita Kapal

Hi everyone! 👋

I’m Anita, and I’m interested in software engineering, system design, and writing about how real-world apps work behind the scenes.

I’m here to learn from other developers, improve my writing, and connect with people.

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Anita, welcome to DEV 👋

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Shrouk Abozeid

Hey Anita, same here 🙏🏻

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Hazel Xu

Hi everyone! I'm here to learn new things and improve my English while connecting with people from different backgrounds. I enjoy exploring new technology and sharing ideas. Looking forward to learning with you all!

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Hunter

I am new as well!!

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Henry Anayo

Hello everyone!
I'm an aspiring software engineer from Kenya, currently learning Go and diving deeper into backend development and DevOps. Lately I've been exploring tools like Terraform and AWS automation while building projects to sharpen my skills.
I'm here to learn from the community, share what I build, and connect with fellow developers. Looking forward to learning alongside you all!
Fun fact: I enjoy going down tech rabbit holes—one interesting talk is all it takes to send me researching a new technology.

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SozonDev

Hi everyone! 👋
I’m currently learning Python and web development (HTML, CSS, JS).
I’m still a beginner, but I’m working on small projects and improving step by step 😄💻
Excited to be part of the community!

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Dhanush K

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Dhanush (xDK0d3r), a beginner Python developer from India focused on backend development.

I recently built and published my first Python project—a Number Guessing Game—and I'm currently learning Python while building projects for my GitHub portfolio.

Looking forward to learning from the community and sharing my progress.

Happy coding! 🚀

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Shaunak Mukherjee

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm Shaun. Check out my portfolio

Most of my work starts with a real problem I run into, and then turns into an experiment - or, if I'm lucky, a product. Lately I've been exploring AI-assisted development, code quality, developer experience, and automation.

I'll be sharing what I build, the technical decisions behind it, lessons learned (including the mistakes), and hopefully a few useful tools along the way.

Looking forward to learning from the community and contributing where I can!

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Shayan Spiel

Hey everyone, I’m Shayan.

I’m currently building SpielOS, an open-source local tool that runs inside IDE agents like Codex, OpenCode, Claude Code, and others.

The idea is simple:

At the end of a build session, you run /post or @post, and SpielOS turns that session into publishable content for blogs, X, LinkedIn, and more.

It’s for founders and builders who are already doing the work, but don’t want to stop and “become content creators” just to share what they’re building.

I’m currently running 3 pilot installs for 3 founders.

If this sounds useful for your workflow, feel free to reach out.

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Techrish

Hello DEV Community! 👋

We're excited to join the community and connect with fellow developers, designers, and technology enthusiasts. Our team specializes in Cybersecurity, Cloud Solutions, Blockchain Technology, Crowdfunding Applications, Full-Stack Development, Mobile Apps, UI/UX Design, Digital Marketing, Branding, and E-commerce Solutions.

We look forward to sharing insights, learning from others, and contributing to meaningful discussions. Thanks for having us!

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Federico Joaquín Barberón

Hello! I'm a computer science student at University of Buenos Aires (FCEN-UBA). I'm passionate about computer architecture, system programming, and all low-level stuff. I'm currently learning Rust, and my goal here is to share some of the things that I go through, discuss solutions to problems, and talk about my experiences in projects that I'm working on along the way.
Yesterday I submitted my first post about testing environment-dependent code in Rust. You are all welcome to read it on my profile, feedback is appreciated :)

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Sourabh Jangid

👋 Hello everyone!

I'm Sourabh Jangid from India. I'm a B.Tech graduate and a passionate full-stack web developer. Currently, I'm improving my skills in React, Node.js, Express.js, MySQL, MongoDB, and modern web development.

I enjoy building real-world projects like real estate websites, hotel booking platforms, and full-stack applications. I'm also interested in UI/UX, SEO, and sharing my coding journey online.

I'm here to learn from this amazing community, contribute whenever I can, and connect with fellow developers.

Looking forward to learning, collaborating, and growing together! 🚀

Happy coding! 💻

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Sibghatullah laghari

Welcome to the community, Sourabh! 🚀

It's great to see another developer passionate about building real-world projects. Wishing you all the best on your learning journey. Looking forward to your future posts!

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Neeraj Yadav

Hi, I am Neeraj - Building MemStrata: a local-first, verification-driven context engine to reduce LLM hallucinations. Exploring autonomous multi-agent systems, HRR-based memory, and local orchestration (Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp). Previously spent 15+ years leading delivery transformation in enterprise banking engineering.

Always happy to talk about local-first AI architecture.

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Hi 👋
I'm building DownloadMapImage, a tool that helps developers, researchers, marketers, and local SEO professionals download Google Maps photos in bulk.

I enjoy creating developer tools around browser automation, Google Maps workflows, Puppeteer, Playwright, and Chrome Extensions.

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Zein Saleh

Hey all, I'm Zein. Spent the last while building a VS Code extension that scans code for leaked secrets and PII before commit, which led me down a rabbit hole of regex false positives, checksum validation, and just how many ways a "simple" pattern-matcher can be wrong. Turns out that's most of the interesting work.
Outside of that, mostly heads-down on security tooling for fintech/healthcare-adjacent teams. Looking forward to reading what everyone else is building.

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Ulug'bek

Hi everyone! I’m Ulug'bek, a solo founder and developer building mobile and web products.

Right now I’m working on DiscountHub a free app that helps people find coupons, promo codes, discounts and online deals from different stores and marketplaces.

I’m here to share what I’m learning while building and launching products, especially around Flutter, mobile apps, product growth and marketing.

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Evans Owusu

Hey everyone! I'm Evans, a developer currently building Yhuu — a social app where you create personality/trivia tests and send them to friends to see how well they know you (think: "How well do you know me?").

Built with React, Vite, Supabase, and deployed on Vercel. It's been a great way to go deep on auth flows, real-time data, and keeping things fast on mobile.

Fun fact: I ended up down a rabbit hole on token security this week and learned more about refresh token rotation than I ever expected to. 😅

Excited to be here and connect with other builders!

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Satvik kaushal

Hello Folks !
My name is Kaushal. I'm currently building FrameUp, learning Go and building many more side cool projects. Hoping to find like Minded people to share thoughts and discuss ideas with.

Thanks
kaushal

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Abhishek Singh

Hey everyone 👋 I'm Abhishek, a Java backend engineer (Spring Boot, Kafka, microservices, Redis, PostgreSQL). I've spent the last few years building and scaling distributed systems, and I want to start writing about the stuff that actually bites you in production—the things that don't show up in the happy-path tutorials.
Just published my first piece here, on why @Transactional sometimes silently does nothing and how to fix it (with a runnable repo). Would love any feedback from the Spring folks. Happy to be here!

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Bunny

Hi, I’m Bunny! I believe the best gifts are the ones that tell a story. I’m here to share my curated collection of interesting gifts and hands-on tutorials to help you create meaningful moments. Beyond sharing, I’m a huge fan of the maker community—eager to explore innovative products and learn from the brilliant minds here. Let’s build, share, and grow together!

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AI Tool Scoop

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm the creator of AI Tools Scoop.

Over the past few months, I've been building a large AI tools directory focused on helping people discover, compare, and evaluate AI products more efficiently.

Some of the things I'm currently working on include:

  • Curating thousands of AI tools across hundreds of categories
  • Tracking pricing, free plans, and feature differences
  • Publishing comparisons and practical reviews
  • Organizing AI products into a structured taxonomy for easier discovery

My goal isn't just to build another directory, but to create a resource that's useful for developers, marketers, founders, and anyone exploring the AI ecosystem.

I'm still improving the platform every day and would love to learn from this community. Looking forward to sharing what I build, exchanging ideas, and connecting with fellow makers.

Thanks for having me! 🚀

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Kushagra Sharma

Hi everyone!

I'm Kushagra Sharma, a Software Engineer from India. I enjoy building backend systems and AI application using Python and .NET.

I'm here to learn, share what I build, and write about Python, .NET, system design, and software engineering.

Looking forward to connecting with you all!

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Badar Tagar

I am a Senior ASP.NET Developer and specialising in inventory and order management systems and Azure. I wanted to serve community and share my ideas and how to build projects with my way of doing things. Hope I will be welcome.

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Ali

Hi. Everyone talks about the importance of mental health. I did not follow up. I lived with the craziness that computers tend to manifest a mind with. Its not as averse as everyone states. To me its chaotic and I'm fine with it. I might be the example of someone who ignored to the mental health part when entering this world.

I've been around with computers but I still don't know a lot. I'm trying get myself the label "Hacker" without any shortcuts but I think I lost my way. I'm trying to organize the knowledge of web2 then structure a better learning process for web3, and would love to make a living hacking games that are built on the blockchain. How exactly will I go about it? I really hope I'll know the answer and best approach to this question.

Apart from that I wanted to act and be in stand up comedy, my style was similar to Bill Hicks and George Carlin. So computers and comedy, I'm breathing their air so to speak. I'm aiming to make one or both a living out of.

You can talk to me if you're interested in making peace with the way your mind is wired, game dev/hacking and movies.

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Ethan shan

Hi everyone! 👋 I'm Ethan shan, a 60-year-old indie maker. My English is basic and my coding skills are limited, yet I've managed to build 12 AI tools! I'm here to document my journey and prove that anyone can leverage AI to create, regardless of age or background. Excited to connect and learn with you all. Let's build! 🚀

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wloadctl

VS Code is my top IDE. All my coworkers love AI editors like Cursor, but I’m still new to them. I mistakenly bought a supposed lifetime token subscription that only lasted one month — such a letdown!
I’m a backend dev who struggles a lot with unreproducible production bugs. Nice meeting everyone!

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Huang Bo

Hi everyone.I'm a college freshman majoring in software engineering.I want to learn more programming knowledge and make clear career path for the future.I'd really appreciate it if you could share some advice with me.I'll listen carefully.Thank you so much!☺️

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Akanra

Hi everyone, I am Akanra! 👋
I'm a Linux enthusiast currently using Debian XFCE on a Dell Latitude 5400.
Right now I'm learning HTML, CSS, Go, and Python while documenting my Linux journey and troubleshooting experiences.
I'm interested in technical writing, open-source software, and learning new things one step at a time. Looking forward to learning from the community! 🐧

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changelogHW

Hi everyone 👋,
I'm Hira. I'm looking to connect with like-minded people, hopefully learn about Developer Advocacy/ Developer Relations along the way. Here is something I wrote just to get started:
Link to my first post

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Ethan shan

Hi everyone! 👋 I'm Ethan, a 60-year-old indie maker. My English is basic and my coding skills are limited, yet I've managed to build 12 AI tools! I'm here to document my journey and prove that anyone can leverage AI to create, regardless of age or background. Excited to connect and learn with you all. Let's build! 🚀

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David Alexander Palahnuk

Hello, all! I'm here as a closet developer who learned html programming from a 17 year old in 2001 out of necessity. This was because I needed a website for my business, and back in those bygone days, there was no such thing as drag and drop interfaces. I created my first batch of webpages using raw html.

Since then, I haven't taken my skill any further because I got busy being an entrepreneur and when I did need new websites, I began to use Wordpress for time-saving purposes. But, all of this time, I admire and am friends with countless "real" software developers and have many tech CEOs and developers and other IT role people as friends, acquaintances, and as my students, but it goes beyond that.

Two years ago, I took my speaking fluency and accent training expertise and decided that I could create an AI-powered speaking fluency and accent training platform online - phonicly.ai! I realized that not everybody can afford a master speaking fluency and accent coach to help them with their strong accents from their native languages.

Phonicly.ai is currently out in the marketplace, in soft-launch mode, until we can get all of the bugs out of it and make it 100% smooth and flawless in its ability to detect mispronounced sounds and provide accurate accent and fluency scores to our users.

Phonicly.ai helps people around the world to be more intelligible to North Americans when they're speaking. This has proven to be a very needed helper, in this regard, and, funnily-enough, about 70% of our users are from the IT sector! That's not really so surprising. About 70% of my accent coaching students are also from the IT sector!

This, of course, is because IT is one of the most global industries on the planet, alongside medical and finance. Tech operates globally with team members from every nation on the planet. What happens when you put all of these accents together? It causes confusion and mistakes. Phonicly helps to address this issue, and for FREE.

So, hope y'all will be okay with me publishing helpful tips on how to be more intelligible to the "natives" when you're speaking English in your global development teams. Whenever you need some advice, chat me up, read my articles! - I'm here to help.

And, I promise, if I need some tech advice, I'll ask you guys. I know that at least one of you will have an answer for me, or for our own Phonicly.ai tech team.

Thanks you!

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Hunter

Hi everyone, I’m Hunter, an IT Tech from Pennsylvania!

I’m learning Go, exploring software engineering, and trying to connect with more people in tech. My background is in Cybersecurity and IT Support, and I’m excited to keep growing as a developer.

Happy to be here!

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AutoAPIWP

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm the founder of AutoAPIWP and the creator of Ingestics, a WordPress automation plugin.

After spending 20+ years in different professional roles, I finally decided to build the product I always wished existed—a simple way to automate content ingestion into WordPress from REST APIs, RSS feeds, XML, CSV, and other external sources.

I'm here to learn from the developer community, share practical tutorials, discuss WordPress development, APIs, automation, and hopefully contribute useful insights along the way.

Looking forward to connecting with everyone!

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LUIZA-GEORGIANA ALEXANDRU

Hi everyone!

I'm Luiza-Georgiana Alexandru from Romania, and I'm excited to join the DEV Community!

I'm a Software QA Tester with 3 years of experience in manual testing. I currently work full-time at Codezilla, where I'm on childcare leave at the moment. During my free time, I've been contributing as a Manual Tester for Evaficy Smart Test, an AI-powered QA platform focused on making software testing more efficient through AI-assisted test management and execution.

Over the past few years, I've worked on writing test cases and test scenarios, performing regression testing, documenting defects, and collaborating closely with developers and product teams. My toolkit includes Jira, TestLink, Selenium IDE, Postman, Git, IntelliJ IDEA, phpMyAdmin, MySQL Workbench, HeidiSQL, MobaXterm (SSH), Tag Assistant, and Algolia, and I enjoy writing SQL queries whenever testing requires digging into the data.

One achievement I'm especially proud of is maintaining 94% positive client feedback during my first two years as a freelancer. It reinforced how important communication, curiosity, and attention to detail are in QA.

I'm particularly interested in:

  • Manual Testing
  • Test Case Design
  • Regression Testing
  • SQL
  • QA Documentation
  • AI-assisted Quality Assurance

I'm joining DEV because I want to keep learning, share my experiences, and connect with other testers and developers. There's always something new to discover in tech, and I'm looking forward to being part of the conversations here.

Thanks for having me! 😊

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Kranthi Annapureddy • Edited

Hi everyone!

I'm joining the Dev.to community to connect with fellow engineers and share some of the architectural deep dives I've been working on.

I am a Software Developer specializing in building secure, enterprise-grade systems with Java (Spring Boot), Hibernate, and Angular.

I am currently looking for my next role!

Let's connect:
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kranthi-kumar-redd...
GitHub: github.com/Kranthi0307

Looking forward to learning from and contributing to the community here!

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Kapil Singhal • Edited

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm the founder of Axentis Technologies (axentis.tech), where we help businesses build scalable software solutions in AI, cloud, DevOps, web, and mobile development.

I'm passionate about AI, Blockchain, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, automation, and building products that solve real-world problems. Lately, I've also been exploring climate-tech solutions using satellite imagery, AI, and geospatial data for environmental monitoring.

I'm here to learn from the community, share practical experiences, contribute technical articles, and connect with fellow developers and founders.

Looking forward to learning, collaborating, and growing together. Happy coding!

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Erik

Hi everyone, I’m new here. I’ve been involved in software development for 30+ years in roles like developer, designer, architect, consultant, and product owner. I’m now building more hands-on again and sharing practical lessons from real projects. Fun fact: I started with C a long time ago, moved through PHP, and now work mostly with Python.

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PatilSpeaks

Hi everyone! 👋

Recently, I made my first open-source contribution and it motivated me to start documenting my learning journey through technical blogs. I'm excited to keep learning from this community and hopefully contribute back along the way.

Fun fact: I enjoy turning complex technical concepts into beginner friendly explanations because teaching is one of the best ways to learn.

Looking forward to connecting with you all! 🚀

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Tasbih Tracker

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm excited to join the DEV Community. I'm currently building Tasbih Tracker, a simple app that helps users track daily dhikr and stay consistent with their spiritual goals. I'm also passionate about AI tools, web development, and creating useful digital products.

Looking forward to learning from the community, sharing my journey, and connecting with fellow developers. Happy coding! 🚀

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Wren Calloway

Hey all 👋 Wren here — software engineer in Seattle, mostly backend and infra the last stretch. What brought me here: the best lessons I've picked up never seem to get written down anywhere — the weird edge cases, the 2am pages, the "why is this actually slow." So I started writing them up. Fresh angles, real code, no hype.

First piece went up this week, on the invisible Unicode characters that can slip into your prompts and quietly wreck your trust boundary. Looking forward to reading (and arguing in) the comments.

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Hugo Ferro

Hi everyone. I am Hugo.

Self taught by nature, in anything that grabs my interest I figure it out on my own. Right now that means shifting from classic software engineering into AI engineering. Just finished the MCP courses from Anthropic and Hugging Face, and built my first agentic pipeline to make sure the theory actually stuck. Planning to share that build here soon, along with whatever I learn along the way.
Looking forward to following other people's journeys here too.

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Marlen Hanika

What I enjoy: Automating repetitive tasks, fixing weird edge cases, and the satisfaction of seeing a project go from broken to working.
What I'm bad at: Stopping when it's "good enough." I always want to tweak one more thing.
Happy to connect with other solo devs who know the feeling of being the entire engineering team.

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Prince Patel

Hello, Can someone suggest me, which types of topics are post at here, cause this is my first website where i post something and recently i complete my Post graduation so now i have no idea about post.

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Siddhraj • Edited

Hey there new to this place don't know much about it but for introduction i would say im a 4th year clg student, creating a letterboxd pro version with tv shows too currently building website lately realized i should have built app cause there could have been more response and all from less technical people so if anyone know how do i create the flutter app version of my website easily and in short time let me know! viewnote

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Ashmita Khuntia

Hii Everyone,
I'm here to tell you all about my ideas and my works that i have worked on, and implementation in code that helped me to grow and learn. I'm a Computer Science student passionate about Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning and have a strong foundation in Data structure and algorithms using Java.

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Joshua

Hi everyone!

I'm Joshua, building Keep — refundable, non-custodial onchain fundraising on Solana, built for AI builders. I mostly work in TypeScript and Rust.

I'm here to learn, share what I build, and write about Solana, agent tooling, and the engineering behind safe money paths.

Looking forward to connecting with you all!

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Ashish

Hi everyone! 👋 I'm Ashish from India. I'm passionate about software engineering, AI, and digital marketing. I'm here to learn, connect with like-minded people, and exchange ideas that help us all grow. Looking forward to learning from this amazing community. Excited to be here! 😊

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Custralis

Hi everyone, Custralis here. A brand-new account sharing notes on secure web and application development for European SMEs: privacy by design, GDPR and OWASP in practice, not as box-ticking. First post is up, on what privacy by design really means and how it turns into concrete technical choices. Glad to be part of the community.

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Vedant Narayan

Hi Dev.to! Staff Software Engineer with 11 years in Java, Spring, and Agile — now diving into AI/ML and exploring how it fits with the backend world I know. Excited to learn, share, and connect with this community. Say hi!

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Ikuko OTANI

Hi! I'm Ikuko, a backend engineer based in Japan 🇯🇵

10+ years building transactional systems — financial accounting, order management, and manufacturing — now diving into FastAPI and async Python. Building toward a Senior Backend role at an EU fintech scale-up.

Just published my first article on building a double-entry ledger API with FastAPI + async SQLAlchemy. Would love any feedback, especially on the accounting modeling side!

Double-Entry Bookkeeping in Python: How I Built a Fintech-Grade Ledger API with FastAPI and async SQLAlchemy

Happy to connect with anyone working in fintech or distributed systems ☕

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Khalid Elokiely

Hi everyone, I am Khalid, a very curious software engineer who decided to give technical writing and exploring research a go!

I am very excited to be part of this community.

Please have a chance to look at my first article here. I truly appreciate all direction!

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Krish Dhola

I've been thinking about building a vehicle rental platform, but I'm hesitant because there are already so many established apps in the market.

I'm curious to hear from people who have actually rented bikes or cars.

What do you dislike about the current apps?
Have you ever avoided renting because of a bad experience?
What feature do you wish existed but doesn't?
What would make you switch to a new rental platform instead of using the popular ones?
If you could change one thing about existing rental services, what would it be?

I'm not trying to advertise anything—I just want to understand whether there's still an unsolved problem worth building for.

I'd really appreciate your honest opinions, even if your answer is "the market is already saturated."

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Gemini Launch

We're building GeminiLaunch — a platform that lets you paste HTML or React code from AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini and get a live website URL in seconds. No GitHub, no terminal, no deployment setup.
Here to share tutorials, write about AI website publishing workflows, and connect with other builders. Excited to be part of the community!

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Aisova Technologies

Happy to join the DEV Community! At AISOVA Technologies, we work on AI, blockchain, SaaS, and software development. Looking forward to sharing technical articles, learning from the community, and collaborating with fellow developers.

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Robert Wallace

Hi all — new here. I build lightweight browser-based dev tools at utilitylab.dev. Mostly focused on things like container query testing, CSV cleaning, and schema generation for AI search engines. Looking forward to reading and contributing. If anyone’s working on similar utilities, I’d be interested to hear what you’re building.

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Harish Garg

Hey everyone!

I'm Harish, the Founder & CEO of AstroFinix, an AI-powered astrology app.

I'm a full-stack developer passionate about building AI products with Next.js, NestJS, TypeScript, Python, and LLMs. I enjoy solving backend challenges, designing scalable systems, and turning ideas into real products.

I'm here to learn from the DEV community, share what I build, write about my development journey, and connect with fellow developers.

Looking forward to learning and building with you all!

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Yossefbalegh Elbaltage

Welcome everyone to dev.to! Glad you are here! Hope you are well! Mental Health is important always a good idea to take breaks if needed! Also, eat and drink if you need to :D

To get started, I recommend reading this guide on making the most out of dev.to!

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Sai Phanindra Manikanta Yalamanchili

Hi everyone, happy to be here! 👋

I'm Sai, a Software Engineer and Data Engineer based in Florida. I recently finished my MS in Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University, and I spend most of my time building backend services, data pipelines, and AI-powered systems with Python, Node.js, and AWS.

Lately I've been going deep on AI engineering (LLM workflows, RAG, and agents), and I'm also a co-founder of Trenith, a remote-first software and AI engineering studio. I joined DEV to learn in public and connect with others building in these spaces.

Looking forward to meeting you all!

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Daiki Yamamoto

Hello
I am Daiki and based in Japan.
I want to collaborate with you.

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AccessLumens

Excited to be part of this community. I'm currently building accessibility tools and breaking assumptions. Sharing lessons from WCAG testing, automation, browser quirks, and real user feedback. Looking forward to learn and share!

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Vladislav Ramazaev

Hi everyone, I’m Vlad, a senior backend engineer and solution architect based in the Netherlands.

I mostly work with distributed systems, APIs, developer tooling, and lately AI-assisted engineering workflows. I joined DEV to share practical technical lessons from the things I build and learn from other developers working on similar problems.

My first article is about Claudescope, an open-source local explorer I built for browsing and searching sessions from six AI coding agents: How I Built a Local Explorer for Six AI Coding Agents.

Outside of work, I maintain open-source projects, mentor engineers, and occasionally write about architecture and engineering practices.

Glad to join the community.

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Ritesh Singh

I’m Ritesh, an AI Engineer with ~8+ years of experience working across ML models, cloud, data platforms, and healthcare data ecosystems.

Recently, I’ve been spending more time building at the intersection of AI, Data Engineering, and developer tools.

A few things I enjoy working on:
• Python, SQL, PySpark
• GCP / Data Pipelines / Big Data
• GenAI, RAG, LangChain, LangGraph
• Building side projects and experimenting with AI products

Some projects I’m currently exploring:
→ RepoInspect — analyzing open-source repositories for vulnerabilities
→ StockMind — AI-assisted market analysis experiments. Leveraging maths, stats, AI to gain meaningful alpha

I joined DEV to:

share what I learn
document projects publicly
connect with builders
learn from this community

Excited to contribute and learn from everyone here 🚀

Attaching the github link to my repo :- github.com/ritesh-ui/RepoInspect.git
Attaching the website link :- repoinspect.com

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Amirhossein Qaderi

Hi ! Welcome to Dev ..

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Alex Kirwan

Hi Everyone,

My name is Alex and I am currently building livelatch.com. I joined dev.to as it seems like the correct place to share what I am working on and my stories about the platforms that I am using

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HARISHCEXPERT

Hey DEV community! 👋

I'm Harish, a solo full-stack developer from India.
Building free browser-based tools at freetoolhub.app —
81 tools, no login, no server, everything runs locally.

Stack: Node.js, Next.js, Vanilla JS, Supabase

Currently working on getting my first users and
writing about building in public. Happy to be here!

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Mantu Kumar

Hi, I'm Mantu 👋 A curious developer from India on a journey into open source and preparing for GSoC 2027. I love learning new technologies, building projects, and sharing my progress as I grow in tech.

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wendygostudio

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm Damián, a sysadmin and indie dev based in Canary Islands. By day I manage networks and infrastructure (Fortinet, Cisco, the usual chaos), and by night I build Chrome extensions under the name Wendygo Studio.

Excited to share what I learn along the way. Happy to connect with other indie devs and extension builders!

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Maciej Cichocki

Hi!

I was told to introduce myself, so here I am.

In time, I plan to start a blog here where I can share my journey as a beginner developer and 3D artist, since I intend to create my own engine. I have a lot of motivation, and the site will help me keep myself disciplined 💪🏻