DEV Community

Neha Sharma
Neha Sharma

Posted on

5

Wrapping up 2022!!

If I have to describe my year 2022 in a few words I would say - "Power of manifesting".

I stopped making new year goals long back. I now go with the flow.

As I look back I see growth, learning, and enjoying life.

So, here are the highlights of my 2022:

🧳 Moved to London

I started this year with the huge step for my career and life - I moved to London.

I had tweeted all my experience over twitter - food, travel, struggle of finding house, etc.

Image description

After spending almost 8 months in London, I can say this is my 2nd home.

🫢🏾 Moved to IC (Individual Contributor) from Engineering Manager

I moved to Engineering Manager role 3 years back. I was enjoying as first-time manager. It was a learning an experience

However, sooner I realized that EM is not something I am keen to keep doing all my life. I was already close to coding. I finally decided to move back to the developer track.

It is now 4 months since I move back to the development track. I am extremely happy with my decision. Reasons:

1) Less meetings

2) Remote work

3) More control on my calendar

4) Closer to what I prefer to do - Coding

🫢🏾 Talks

This was the year when I decided to reduce my public talks. I wanted to focus more on learning new skills. But still, I gave a few talks:

  1. Keynote at React India

  2. Accessibility at RDS

  3. Testing at Pesto

✊ Workshops

2022 opened a new opportunity for me where I taught students different tech. The batch size was between 25 - 40.

  1. ReactJS

  2. NodeJS

  3. Full Stack Web Development

  4. AWS

  5. Testing of FE apps

  6. Web development

Started my YouTube channel

Infact (re)-started my youtube channel. There is so much to talk and share about from my experience, so, Idecided to restart my YouTube channel.

🫰🏽 Travel

This year I have travelled a few places

Image description

Image description

Image description

Image description

Image description

✌️ Started Learning to drive

I started learning to drive in London. I am super excited and excited to learn to drive this time.

πŸ‘ Topmate Top Creator

Topmate.io is my go-to place to meet new folks and for 1:1. I didn't know when I joined that within 1 year I would be their top creator.

They were so awesome that they sent me the goodies pack all way to London.

Image description

πŸ‘ Dev.to top author and crossed 100k views

Thanks to all wonderful folks who read my blog :)

Image description

Image description

πŸ‘ AWS Community Builder Program

I started my AWS journey a few years back.Srushith guided me for AWS and he introduced me to community builder program.

Image description

πŸ§˜πŸ½β€β™€οΈ Started Yoga

After moving to London, my health became my priority. I was doing 10k steps daily. I now wanted to get myself into a more active life. Hence, yoga :)

What didn't worked:

1 . Calligraphy

I wish I could do more art and calligraphy. I missed artistry-neha. But I still did a few artworks. Here is for your eyes:

2 . Certificates

I wanted to get my AWS certificates but I was not able to book them. Definitely, 2023 would be my year for certificates

Overall 2022 was a great year and I am thankful to everyone and all opportunities.

Image of Timescale

πŸš€ pgai Vectorizer: SQLAlchemy and LiteLLM Make Vector Search Simple

We built pgai Vectorizer to simplify embedding management for AI applicationsβ€”without needing a separate database or complex infrastructure. Since launch, developers have created over 3,000 vectorizers on Timescale Cloud, with many more self-hosted.

Read more β†’

Top comments (1)

Collapse
 
kotesh_mudila profile image
Kotesh_πŸ”― β€’

Wishing you a phenomenal 2023 with many more milestones of new chapters πŸ’ ✨

Image of Docusign

πŸ› οΈ Bring your solution into Docusign. Reach over 1.6M customers.

Docusign is now extensible. Overcome challenges with disconnected products and inaccessible data by bringing your solutions into Docusign and publishing to 1.6M customers in the App Center.

Learn more