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Meet Divya, a developer from Hindi medium school in Rajasthan to a YC startup in SF

Most developer success stories start at the finish line.

This one starts with a Hindi-medium student from a small village in Rajasthan.

Divya learned English only after joining engineering college. She struggled with programming, worked her way into Amazon, built side projects, grew one to 10,000 users, left a stable job, won Buildspace against 70,000 participants, and eventually became a Founding Engineer at a YC startup in San Francisco.

The most interesting part isn't the milestones.

It's how she kept showing up through uncertainty, rejection, and uncomfortable growth.

Read the full story:

https://blog.invidelabs.com/meet-divya-from-rajasthan-hindi-medium-to-san-francisco/

What part of your own developer journey was the hardest to overcome?

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