DEV Community: Shajin KP

How I Landed My Dream Job as a Full-Stack Developer at Age 16 ?

Shajin KP — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 18:04:54 +0000

• I was in school but wasn’t doing well.
• Some people thought I wasn’t smart enough.
• During the lockdown, I decided to do something different.
• I got my trusty laptop and started exploring the world of coding.
• This decision changed my life forever.

I started with Python tutorials on ‘Malayalam Tutorial’ and www.codecademy.com. Then, I learned HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from Debug Media and W3Schools etc...

I tried out React
I tried out Node & Mongo.
I tried out Flutter.
I tried almost everything that I like.
As I gained new skills, I felt more confident and capable. I realized that tech stack is just a top layer of skills. The real power lies in understanding how things work, how they scale, who our customers are, and more.

Against all expectations, I landed my first job as a Flutter developer. It was an amazing opportunity to work on real-world projects and learn a lot. However, it was still a figuring-out phase since I was at a startup. Initially, I only shipped Flutter apps (frontend only), but then I built the entire project, including APIs, databases, and authentication. This is an unfair advantage you get when working at startups.

I’m proud to say I was able to pay all my bills, including my education fees, gadgets (iPhones, MacBooks, etc..)

I won first prize in the hackathon organized by IHRD Tharang (2x), I was the only participant from a higher grade school against college students. Despite the tough competition, I beat over 80 members, each with fou
r team members.

Edit: I now manage 9 team members, including a software developer, QA engineer, and UI designer, as project manager. We’re building a highly scalable project from scratch.

Most underrated Flutter property "autofillHints"

Shajin KP — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:49:51 +0000

Use flutter autofillHints property to improve user input accuracy and speed by 10x 🚀

Most used :

AutofillHints.telephoneNumber.
AutofillHints.addressCity
AutofillHints.email
AutofillHints.password
AutofillHints.name
There are tons of such property to autofill, where some are only available on Android and some for IOS only.
It can seriously contribute to user experience

Bonus tip 💡 : Do follow for daily flutter tips.

Kiqpo - Build web apps faster than ever

Shajin KP — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 23:37:19 +0000

Kiqpo

Build web apps faster than ever

Quick start

⚠️ Kiqpo is Unsuitable for production as of now.

Try and contribute | pre-alpha

About Kiqpo

By making use of KIQPO, you can build beautiful, fast, and reliable web applications without relying on JavaScript frameworks, HTML templates, request parsing, or state management. All of this is done using Python and we're targeting web, Windows, macOS, Linux platforms

Beautiful user interface

kiqpo and google's material design

We want to enable designers to deliver their full creative vision without being forced to water it down due to limitations of the underlying framework.
that's why we follow google's material design system.

Productive development

Kiqpo offers hot reload, allowing you to make changes to your code and see the results instantly & No HTML/CSS/JavaScript required for Kiqpo

Kiqpo is a fully open-source project, and we welcome contributions. Information on how to get started can be found in our contributor guide.

Python Kiqpo| WEB-UI

Shajin KP — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 15:27:53 +0000

Hello developers,

Build web pages / UI with python

I started working on a python project since 2020 and not yet completed.

it's a python fremwork for building web page / web ui.
https://github.com/kiqpo/kiqpo
Interested one can contribute ❤️ and build tomorrow's react, flutter
.
expected release 2023 / end of 2022.
Easy & clean code that every beginner can build web pages without or less knowledge of #html5 #css3 #javascript