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dev.to staff on April 08, 2019

Hey there! Welcome to dev.to! Leave a comment below to introduce yourself to the community! ✌️ Here are some ideas to get you started: You can...

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Maricris Bonzo

Whoah. Hi guys. Just gotta say that I've been waiting for the next coolest social networking site, and I gotta say that this might just be it 🤓. How have I never heard of this place before?! 😲

My name's Maricris and I have over 2 years of prof. full-stack coding experience (mostly w/ JS, React, Node.js). Currently making the most of my unemployment days by working on a side project called Woga (using JS & React again for frontend but GoLang for the back).

I'm already learning a lot from awesome devs here and I can't wait for more/to share some of my blogz w/ y'all!

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Jamie Ferrugiaro

Hey! Welcome! I just joined as well. I'm also on Medium and saw that on your profile so I've added you :)

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Maricris Bonzo

Hello Jamie! Thank you . :-) It's amazing how welcoming devs are here, haha. How's the learning journey going?

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Jamie Ferrugiaro

Not bad! Hit some snags because both my power cords for the 2 computers I own broke in one week, so currently waiting to replace them. But honestly I shouldn’t complain, because I’m lucky to have two computers to begin with. 🙈

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Jerami

Hey there, I joined a couple of weeks ago but never introduced myself. I'm Jerami. Sorry about the cords.

I think I've just finished writing my first article which touches on what to do when computer problems get in the way of code. I'll be publishing it in the next couple of hours.

Just wanted to say hello to some other newcomers. So, "Hello!"

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andy

Hello.

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Vynce Montgomery

Hi, I'm Vynce. I haven't figured out how to use this site yet, but maybe that's normal. I was a web developer for over 20 years, starting when Perl was normal, javascript was optional, and there was no CSS. Things have changed a bit since then. Now I'm pursuing other things that I enjoy more: talking and writing about tech, and making board games.

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Katie Adams

Hey! Fellow newbie over here :) Sounds like you've got some great experience. Do you publish your writing anywhere? And what sort of board games do you make? :D

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Vynce Montgomery

I've got a few little articles; nothing major yet. I intend to get more serious about posting to Medium, at least.

As for board games - many kinds. I haven't gotten into the world of 3-hour euros, but I'm working actively on about a half dozen different games, including offbeat capitalism, co-op combat, and a deck builder for kids about being Fire Chiefs.

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Katie Adams

It's definitely a good way to practice!

There aren't enough co-op combat board games in my humble opinion and that deck building for kids idea is brilliant. Best of luck with it!

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Mark

I love boardgames... especially novel ones different from others I've seen before.

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Panda

Making board games sounds awesome!!

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Will Manidis • Edited

Hey y'all!

I'm Will-- a software developer working at Cascade.bio. Grew up writing a whole lot of python and early TF for Kaggle competitions, ended up studying formal math + biology before going to work in pharma for a while. Dig a little competitive programming along the way, so broad language exposure there.

Fun fact: I'm an alum of Olin College, one of the smallest colleges in the country.

Excited to learn more!

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🇭🇹 DEDE

Happy to have you here Will.

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Raul Torres

👋

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Mark

What's your favorite place for competitive programming and what language did you use?

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Peter Kim Frank

Welcome!

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Kait Beaudette • Edited

Hi, I'm Kait. The rabbit-hole brought me here: YouTube->Confreaks-> Molly Struve's 'Cache is King' RubyHack 2019 Talk -> @molly_struve on Twitter -> tweet about @msarit switching careers to software with a three month old. Right in the feels. I had to share too.

I joined a software bootcamp back in early 2017 when my son was 6 months old. It was in London so I could get up at 3am and be done by noon but still feed him and take care of him with only minimal babysitting from family.

I was really nervous about being a junior developer so I leveraged my past experience doing Customer Support for Uber to get a job in Support at a local startup with the plan that I would slowly transition onto the Engineering team. It was a really great experience and I've been coding in my day job for two years now.

I could really benefit from a community like this. Podcasts and articles and YouTube conferences can only take you so far.

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Arit Developer

That's an amazing story Kait, and congratulations to you! We mothers are REALLY kicking butt and taking names! Kudos to you for rising to the challenge and chasing your dreams!

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João

I'm João, a Java/JS/TS developer that has also worked with Python, PHP, ASP, Delphi, C#. I've done some Go, Ruby, Haskell, Clojure, even a tiny little bit of Rust, Ocaml.
Also worked with RDBMS such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, SQLite, Firebird.
I'm 38 and still eager to learn!

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Welcome! That's whole lot of stuff you've worked on!

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Cubicle Buddha

Nice! The best part of being a dev is that we get to learn every day. :)

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bradzo

Hi everyone!

I'm Brad, I'm almost 58 and have been reading a lot of your welcome posts - a lot of you are young and itching to succeed.

Please allow me to submit a bit of my life story. I hope it inspires you.

I've been mucking about with programming since the old Tandy TRS-80 days. Most of you will probably not know what that means... LOL. 4k of ram. cassette for loading of programs, 80x24 green screen - ah those were the days. The source code, or should I say, individual byte codes, of a program that a mate and I developed in Z80 assembler, got published in a magazine! (And we got paid $50 - this was April 1985!)

Went along for a few years and then bought a 2nd hand IBM-XT - wow, and Windows!

A few more years saw me get to Visual Basic 6 Enterprise - what you couldn't do with that at the time! So many libraries, so many DLL's !!! Access, SQL Server, Oracle as databases. Wow.

Wrote a program (we call them apps nowadays don't we? :)) that a mate and I sold across Australia and the world (all right, just one other country) and it was selected by our Federal Parliamentary Library over an entrenched software company in the same space. Those were heady days! Oh, and it presented its interface in a web browser! (We also earned over $110,000 from that)

Also developed a Windows app for our Australian Ladies Professional Golf - a VB6 app that lets them enter players, tournaments, scores etc, and ultimately, prints cheques (checks) for the players of their winnings, and uploads the results to the ALPG website. Have been supporting them for over 30 years - the app is still going. :)

For a brief period, VB6 + Firebird DB, a fork of Interbase, for a project that worked really, really well, (and as I think of it now, was an EAV store essentially, and everyone at the time said that EAV was bad, bad, bad. And now we have noSQL. Pfftt :)) but never got anywhere because of marketing, or, not enough of it. Blergh.

Then I found PHP, mySQL - and the web (again) for a paid gig.

After a few more years, and now I'm fully using Meteor meteor.com and have just launched a new service - a mobile app development thing targeted to real estate agents - almost a "digital business card"

I will never stop coding - I love it.

Sorry for the long introduction, but for all you lovely people just starting out, I applaud you! You have something good to share with the world - never stop believing that!

Get out there, and make some noise!

You can do it!

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Greg Sithole

Hey Guys

I'm Greg Sithole and I'm a Full Stack Software Developer. I am from Johannesburg, South Africa and my ultimate goal is to be a Game Developer & Designer.

I work at a Company called Entrostat where we work with technologies such as NodeJS, Angular, npm, Javascript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, SCSS, LESS, Nest.JS, Docker, Docker-Compose and a whole lot more.

My goal for the year is to at least have a couple of Open Source projects that I can say I've worked on and developed as I currently have none.

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Joe Hoehne • Edited

Hi Greg! I hope your dream of becoming a Game Developer & Designer comes true! Thanks for sharing!

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Greg Sithole

Thanks, Joe that really means a lot.

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Katie Adams

I'm very excited to be here! I'm in my third year of university (out of four) and have been looking for a site like this since I started. It's all very well following tech news and tips articles on Twitter but I've been looking for something specific to programming. At last! My name is Katie, I'm self-taught in a lot of my favourite languages like C# and C++ but have university tutelage in a lot of web development languages and also Java. Thank you for having me! 😁

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Quintius Walker

Katie, I think you're very lucky to have a community like this while going through college. I studied computer programming as an Associates before going into university and that Associates was the longest 2 years of my path thus far. I was all over the internet looking for people, communities, and answers. I'll make a prediction that DEV will come to be a gem for you in your last year. Congrats on 3 years and Good Luck on four. Cheers!

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Katie Adams

I've only been here for a short time and I already think your prediction is correct! I can't wait to get back to studying in September, purely thanks to this site and it's amazing content creators!

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Jesse M. Holmes

Thanks for joining us!

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Maximiliano Martinez

Hey its Max! I am a Software Developer who has worked with Python and JavaScript stacks for little over a year now. I started out with C++ and then moved onto Python to learn data structures and JavaScript for Full Stack Development. I love working with databases, especially with PostgreSQL and MongoDB. I am stoked to read and be inspired by other developers in this community!

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+ sy +

Hi! Are u familiar with JavaScript? Wonder if you can help me. Hehe

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Uwana Ikaiddi

Hi all!

My name is Uwana. I've been a technical writer ~5 years and have started transitioning to towards software development. I'm 2 weeks away from completing a coding boot camp and have been reading a lot of dev.to articles lately. I've been teaching myself Python for ~ 1 year, and have experience with Ruby, JavaScript, Vue.js, and Django through my boot camp.

I'm looking forward to learning and sharing as I can. Can't wait to chat with y'all!

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Arit Developer

Congratulations for being at the tail-end of bootcamp! Where are you located? Will you be applying for jobs after camp or using your skills for business/startup?

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Uwana Ikaiddi

Hi Arit!

Thank you! I'm in Austin, TX. I originally joined the program to enhance my own understanding of the developer experience to enhance my technical writing skills. However, learning about software engineering has piqued my interest in the field. I want to see if there's a way to combine the two skill sets. I've started applying for developer positions per my boot camp. Haven't gotten anything yet, but I'm weirdly thankful for that. I still feel like quite the novice.

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Arit Developer • Edited

I know exactly what you mean about the "novice" feeling. I struggle with that as well. That is so good to hear about your tech writing skills; as a developer, that will come in very handy in writing documentation (among other things). In fact, I would recommend getting into a few open-source projects and trying your hand at updating their documentation :D
What tech stack are you learning? Do you have an online portfolio? I've been through your GitHub - are your projects there deployed somewhere?
I have several friends in Austin, though I haven't had the chance to visit yet :)

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Uwana Ikaiddi

I've been wanting to contribute to open source. I guess I'm still a bit unsure on how to get started and identify beginner-friendly projects. Right now, we're learning Rails and Vue. I'll have a portfolio and deployed project soon. We're starting that process right now.

I highly recommend a visit to Austin for the food alone. Might want to wait for fall though. The summers are brutal!

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Arit Developer

That's amazing sis. If you're learning Rails then the Dev.To OpenSource Project is PERFECT for you! Setting the environment up locally is the easiest and they have lots of great "first-timer" issues 😄

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Sapan Bodiwala

HEY EVERYONE!

My name is Sapan Bodiwala. I'm from New Jersey currently working as a Senior App Developer at the Innovations Labs at ADP. I'm a big sports fan (Tennessee Titans, Los Angeles Lakers, & New York Yankees).

I'm excited to join this community and learn from all you brilliant devs out there!

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erikest

Allow me to introduce - drum roll - me! crickets ahem.. tap tap this thing on?

Third time (at starting blogging) is the charm! Looking forward to churning out the high value bits on this platform - someday, I hope to pass all those posts down to my kids, so they can know what it was like when people typed on 'keyboards', before neural interfaces were all the rage.

As a dotnet acolyte, I've been rewarded in recent years as my platform of choice has made a stunning and powerful turn towards open source. Now, I don't look like such a closed-source, windows-only curmudgeon, yay!

I've just started contributing to open source in my own little ways and in an attempt to bring exposure to my new line of side-projects, I figured I'd start to blog about my progress, which also serves, as many a dev-blogger has noted, to maintain a record of things I've done and then can't remember the specifics of. This includes anything that happened before yesterday, so I've got to act quick!

To the ~6 people who have read my few posts so far, good on ya, get in on the ground floor. You'll get to say you were reading my drivel before my audience blew up to tens or even dozens of people! :)

Thanks for having me!

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Quintius Walker

As a blogger myself....I so love your attitude. (Wink!)

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sea.fox.run • Edited

Data is beautiful... so are foxes! Hoping to contribute as I learn...I found this lovely community via Twitter. Statistics are my strong suit ... currently refining syntax/catching up on coding languages..(bestPractices).. basis of jS&&py.

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carmi

one might even say...data is foxy B)

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Panda • Edited

Hi, I'm Panda aka Paula. It's great to find a really inclusive dev community with such a welcoming and helpful vibe. :) I am here to connect, find and share ideas and cool stuff, and hopefully write some posts of my own at some point as that is something I sometimes get anxious about (or just procrastinate and make excuses until I never write anything...)

I have been doing front-end dev for around 15 years now, and I still love pure HTML and CSS, but lately I am trying to get up to date on some of the new shiny stuff, such as Vue, and I am also loving the Greensock animation library.

I also love helping people whenever I can and especially chatting CSS.

Other than dev I'm a big fan of videogames, coffee, hanging out with cats and going on trains.

Nice to meet you all and look forward to reading, and maybe one day also writing :)

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Aymen Loukil

Hello Dev.to community !
I accidentally discovered this community via Twitter and i said : I should be there.

I'm Aymen Loukil, an international SEO consultant from France. I'm CS engineer and ex-developer (i'm only developing in my free hours for personal projects now). I help my customers to be more "findable and visible" online especially on search engines.

In the past i co-founded a web agency, then i worked for different companies (startups, large and international retailers) before going independent.

Some topics i work on / worked on : semantic web, web architecture, web performance optimization, Schema.org, SSR for JS websites, Mobile and e-commerce.

I'm also speaker in many SEO related conferences and i write some SEO/Dev things on my blog.
Ready to learn exciting things from you here !

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Vinod Shabadi • Edited

Hi Guys, Bored with routine stuff at office. Was looking for some interesting reads. My friend directed me to the best place -> "dev.to"
I am Vinod, I have experience in iOS development, used C#, ObjC and Swift. Got my hands dirty in backend development few months ago. NodeJS, MicroServices, Docker etc.
Moving towards being a Fullstack dev.
Its a great beginning starting here with this one! dev.to/softchris/5-part-docker-ser...

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Parmesh • Edited

Hello everyone!

My name's Parmesh. I have ~7 years of experience across the stack, but I find myself on the frontend exclusively these days.

I'm really excited about how frontend development as a whole has matured, such that it's becoming more like traditional software engineering and that it's embracing more computer science. I'm also passionate about the open source world and its continued growth.

I'm here to practice my writing, to find developer communities with diversity of thought, and to keep up with the latest community standards. I look forward to learning and contributing here.

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Manuel

Hello world!

I've been coding for fun over the past 20 years but never reached anything serious in terms of moving to professional. I always got stuck there at the tutorials. 3 years ago I started college part-time and I'm still one year before graduating but I already got my first professional position!

I'm currently working as fullstack web with Angular 6 and .Net although I've been doing bits and pieces in React a year ago. I'm interested in learning as much as I can.
My dream is to build educational games for my children as they grow up, so they can use those for learning.

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Muhaimin Sheik

Hi all,
I'm Muhaimin a Software developer for halsimplify.com.I'm passionate in web development also willing learn new stuff in this world web.Now i'm learning react js. I need improve my coding skills in all aspect.I think dev.to people will help me.

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Vynce Montgomery • Edited

I think you'll find that automagic URL detection will work better for you if you always put a space after the period that ends a sentence or an abbreviation. Of course, you don't want one inside a URL, like halsimplify.com. Just the one that comes after that.

It will also make your text easier to read.

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Muhaimin Sheik

Ya sure i'll try change @Vynce.

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Oleksandr

Hi everyone!

I am Oleksandr Poshtaruk, senior front-end dev in tonicforhealth.com (Ukrainian office, Kiev). Moved 3+ years ago from support L3 position to be front-end developer.

For now mostly worked with Angular (ngRx, Rx.JS) on work projects. Also write articles about RxJS and Angular on medium(medium.com/@alexanderposhtaruk).
Had a speech in Ukrainian JS conference(fwdays.com/event/js-fwdays-2018) in May, 2018 about using RxJS solution to renew tokens in iframed angular app.

Angular-in-Depth blog writer (blog.angularindepth.com/) .

Angular and RxJS mentor on codementor.io.

Recently released my video course for Rx.JS beginner (and advanced level devs as well): packtpub.com/web-development/hands....
Want to write a few beginners RxJS articles here as well (when having time, haha:). And you can ask me about some RxJS and Angular questions.

And I definitely want to learn more here about Angular and RxJS.

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Rajanikanth

Thanks for course Hands-On RxJS for Web Development. I started learning RxJS through this course. Could you share your slides presentation material please.
Many thanks,Raj

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Oleksandr

Hi! Thanks for the feedback! May I ask you to leave written feedback on udemy? About takeaway materials for the course - it is github repo with Angular and codepen(master branch) examples. PacktPub is rights owner and they dont allow share video lessond slides.
But if you have some specific concern (like link on some slide or code) - tell me, I will try to help.

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Rajanikanth

Left a feedback on safari books online. Cheers, Raj

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Aaron Stone

Hi everyone, I have been on dev.to for some time but never saw this thread. I've been working as a full stack developer for around 5 years now. Currently my focus is with react native and flutter. I am interested in cross platform mobile apps. Feel free to reach out for react, flutter, or react native questions. Or just to say hi and chat!

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Arik

Great to have you here!

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Patrick Charles-Lundaahl

Hi folks!

My name's Patrick. I'm working as a full-stack developer based out of Vancouver, BC (Canada). I'm currently employed building sales demos using primarily Drupal, React, AWS. I've been at this job about 6 months, with a 2-year applied CS diploma, and I spent a bunch of time teaching myself various languages before that.

While I don't have any currently active side projects (taking a breather after school), I'm working on teaching myself more about data oriented design. I'm also itching to get more experience with React + Redux and TypeScript, and I really want to get my feet wet with functional programming (I figure more paradigms = more ways of tackling problems).

Cheers!

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Jesse Skinner

Hello everyone! I'm Jesse and I'm new here. That's not really true, because I've read lots of articles on dev.to, but this is my first time actually signing in.

I've been around for quite a while. I started blogging about JavaScript back in 2005. But that blog has been collecting dust the past decade because I was hanging out on Twitter. But lately I decided to change that and go back to blogging.

Earlier today, I just published a blog post for the first time in forever. Right after, I was listening to the recent Changelog podcast interview with @emmawedekind and she was talking about writing on here, and I thought, Hey, I should post my article here too! So I did. :D dev.to/jesseskinner/formatting-dat...

Looking forward to lots more blog posts here. Can't remember the last time I was this excited about blogging :)

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Emma Bostian ✨

Yes welcome!

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Ahmed Butt

Hi everyone, I am a passionate Technology learner. My basic goal is to learn different techniques and design a model to integrate them. I haven't done any major contribution. it's my first post in an open source community so, I want to share a bit of my thoughts. I am learning elk stack, Jenkins and Openstack. Want to integrate them to create a modle for dev and QA testing.

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Dandy Vica

Hi all,

I was first reluctant to join such a developer blog. Am I too old among those young and fresh coders ? Am I rusted (pun intended ;-)) ?

I started long time ago on OS/2 writing Presentation Manager C code (gosh, back in the late eighties). I'm using Linux since 1995 and never stopped using it since. I'm a software architect in the IT department of some big company dealing with enterprise issues. So I guess I'm not the most common background dev here, but who knows.

I'm not going to enumerate my IT skills, it's not my resume ;-) But I love coding for fun, and I'll soon post my first article on Python lists. Hope it'll be read !

Beyond posting articles, I'm also looking for a welcoming community, talk to other people and improve my English.

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manish007raut • Edited

Hello Guyz,

I was looking for a platform where we can share ideas and knowledge about dev and related things. I am a Senior Software Engineer, mostly working as a devops engineer. I have good hands on chef, git and I am trying hands on Ansible, Docker and Kubernetes. I have used Softlayer and now trying to switch for AWS or GCP.
Would like to explore more in the related areas.

I feel a bit low when programming is concerned would like to improve on that too. My goal is to be confident in the areas I am working(also keeping a good health at the same time as I ignore it most of the time due to work) and can contribute to the society for well being.

Any suggestions or comments are most welcome. If someone need any help feel free to reach out with queries. :)

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Xyza Rivera

Hi! I'm Xyza. So far am a beginner on most fields. I am ultimately curious of a lot of idea. I was ann IoT Engineer, now a Frontend Developer. I've been reading a lot of articlese in Dev.to that I decided tonight to officially make an account now :D

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Russell Ormes

Russell here. I am a year in to my journey as a principle engineer. This is a role I believe to be one of leadership. What do I mean by this? First that it affords me the time to fully investigate the best solutions for a given set of business requirements, within the constraints of the current Engineering proposition. Then it becomes a job of collaboration with the team to bring them on the journey you have made. If you cannot provide compelling arguments for the decisions you have made, and get the team on board, you haven't got the right answer! It is not the role of the principle engineer to dictate the solution but to light the way. The hardest skill to learn is when to disagree and commit (in the Amazon parlance). It is only possible if you do not take your position as one of manager. Only a teacher and collaborator will succeed.

Blah blah. I love to learn from other professionals and so look forward to reading content and interacting with the community here.

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Cubicle Buddha

I feel ya. I’m at a similar place in my career, and I personally struggle a lot with knowing when to choose my battles. I do find that the amazon principle you referenced (Disagree and Commit) helps a lot these days. Anywho, just wanted to say welcome to a similar soul. I’ll be writing a lot very soon about collaboration and learning to be a more mindful coworker in some of my future articles. Feel free to follow and read along. Either way, welcomes and best of luck with leading your team. Oh and thank you for considering Principle Engineer to be a position of “servant leadership.” Sadly not every Priniciple Engineer sees their role that way. Kudos! :)

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Russell Ormes

Thanks for the welcome!

Just reading your post on not bringing work home.
cubiclebuddha.com/go-home-4-techni...

Yep, you cover it well. Add to that I have two young boys, and you get the guilt of waiting for them to go to bed so you can have another crack at that outstanding problem and you probably see why I ended up on anxiety medication :)

I like the ideas you list. Will give it a go and let you know how I get on.

Thanks again for your note.

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<coder2coder/> • Edited

hello! I'm both new here and to the dev learning community in general. Utilizing Codecademy, Treehouse, Sitepoint, and anything i can get my hands on really. so' i'll be jumping in here to pick some brains from time to time, if thats ok with everybody?! Thank You!

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premsanth

Hey guys!!!

This is Prem from India,

  1. I bumped into this just to googling out for brain.js, found a lot threaded message, felt i'm going to learn a lot from here.

  2. This is first time into a community like this, looking forward to learn and contribute.

  3. One of my hackathon projects - using user's browsing history to recognise, their industry , type of business, predicting how close they are into a product purchase journey..
    and lot of exciting stuffs :)

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subbu

Hi,
I came across Dev.to today, when I was learning on MySQL query optimisation, and found this new site and wanted to go through and learn and share ideas.
Am running a startup company Aakro in India and looking to learn Database Management to deliver my clients with a seamless experience.

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Robert Hostlowsky

Hi, I am Robert.
Thanks to all your great articles on this site! ❤️
After reading many I would love to contribute stuff, too.
I will start sharing some of my experiences and knowledge ...

P.S. Please ask me anything about #graphql + #react if you like 😄

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Snilloc

Hey everyone 👋

I am a University student studying IT.I have experience in android(java) and web dev(ruby and JS), mostly self taught. Currently learning python.
I aspire to be a full stack developer!

I love tech communities and so this was a perfect place for me to come learn with and from the community.
Exicted to be here!

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Daniel • Edited

Hi guys, am new on this platform. Hope to share more ideas, learn and #argue with codes. lol! I love breaking new grounds and take new challenges.
We can discuss if you need a helping hand.

I have 3 years hands on coding, design and video/photo Editing experience, and worked on some projects, have decided to have a team to work with soon.

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lizcampe

Hello! I´m learning in a bootcamp javascript. I've studied philosophy and social sciences, then a master in communication but now I want Switching Careers. My mentor @pekosog sent me one article from here and I like the community, there are so many things to learn in accessible language :P thanks!

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Andrea Cachia

Hi all!

I'm Andrea, and I'm a fresh-faced Electronic engineer with 5 years of experience in embedded C programming and assembly, although just a single year of that is industry experience. I love embedded programming, but it's become too much of a comfort zone; there's a world of opportunity out there, if only I'd learn some more complex languages! I've dabbled in C++, python and Java, but have never seriously taken the plunge and made a commitment to something. Most recently, I have been learning Java again through Android Studio, attempting to make my own app (just for fun) and now I've discovered this amazing site I never knew existed I hope to use what I can learn from you all and be inspired into making some actual progress finally!

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Milan Andric

Hi Devs! This site seems fun! I've been missing out on the action! I was trying to catch up with the world today and was listening to the Changelog episode with @emmawedekind that was pretty inspiring and pointed to some articles here. I have a knack for things dev and design, but spend most my time in backend NodeJS and devops, starting the learn Golang. Pretty much spend every day trying to avoid rabbit holes because I want to understand everything. Recently started a web extension boilerplate project in case anyone is curious, still rough around the edges. github.com/mandric/extension-testi...

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Emma Bostian ✨

Thanks for listening! Welcome :)

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sambit sahoo • Edited

Hi, there everybody. I'm a newcomer in the dev industry. I'm also an entrepreneur and running a startup (tiaamo.com) and I'm also a e-commerce developer. I'm passionate about vue.js dev and I'm developing a e-commerce site using vue.js in the frontend and fire base as the backend.
Thank you.

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Kiev Andres

Hello World!, I recently discovered this social network, my desire is to learn a lot, to later have a lot to teach and share.
I'm fan of JavaScript, I mean client-side, server-side (Node.JS), AR-VR, etc. So I like React a lot too
My skills are:
(Proficient): JavaScript, React/Redux, 3D - Modeling with "Blender"
(Familiar): Django/Python, Docker, R, PHP

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manish007raut

Hello Guyz,

I was looking for a platform where we can share ideas and knowledge about dev and related things. I am a Senior Software Engineer, mostly working as a devops engineer. I have good hands on chef, git and I am trying hands on Ansible, Docker and Kubernetes. I have used Softlayer and now trying to switch for AWS or GCP.
Would like to explore more in the related areas.

I feel a bit low when programming is concerned would like to improve on that too. My goal is to be confident in the areas I am working(also keeping a good health at the same time as I ignore it most of the time due to work) and can contribute to the society for well being.

Any suggestions or comments are most welcome. If someone need any help feel free to reach out with queries. :)

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Haruan Justino

Hello there, my name is Haruan (R1),
I am here for a while (1 or 2 months I think), but I never introduced myself.

I'm senior Full Stack(Python/PHP/JS) developer that also worked with Obj-C and Swift, and some Java Android dev.

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Syed Hassaan Ahmed

I have worked on a project called "Mp3 Music library".I made this project in early days of my software development.I love this project because it was my first GUI based software which fetch songs from api (that was also made by me) and I made it with my heart it is very nearest to my heart.But my professor didn't loved it he said you got to be more productive in thinking ideas and implementing them at first it broke my heart but lately I realized that yeah he was somewhat right and I moved on with previous learning. Now I am a Web App Developer

My Tech Stack is: C# , asp.NET core and JavaScript

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Zakawat

Did the professor demotivate you?

I know exactly who you are talking about!

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Syed Hassaan Ahmed

yes

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Mujeeb Ishaque

Hey! Someone posted the link of this networking website on facebook, now, I am here. I do python/django and C++. Thinking of getting into flutter development but I am not sure and I don't know anything about mobile development. God help me, confused. Will be graduating in like 3 months.

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Wilhelm Siso

Hi people, I'm currently learning React, CSS Grids and animations. I've knowledge of HTML, PHP, Javascript and Wordpress.
I registered in DEV.TO to integrate more with the development community and contribute in some way to the community
Sorry if I wrote something wrong, English is not my native language

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Katie Adams

Hey there! Fellow newcomer here. Sounds like we have a very similar mindset for working. I'm trying to teach myself how to use Unity before my dissertation project at university. How do you think is the best way to work? Do you set yourself hard deadlines at the end of each month or do you give yourself leniency on the projects to enjoy? :)

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John Halsey

Hello. How have I not found dev.to before?

I'm a PHP / Laravel & VueJS developer working in the UK. Hoping to keep up to date with latest trends and always interested to hear other peoples ideas and opinions.

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Marco Souza

Hello guys

My name is Marco Antônio, I'm a fullstack developers since 2012. I work as fullstack developer at SmarttBot in Brazil. My core languages are JavaScript and Python, and now I'm studying golang to apply in my projects.

I consider myself a Devops evangelist and docker lover.

And also, I like cats :)

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Shahadat Hossain

Hi guys!

I'm Shahadat Hossain. Last few months I access this site to get help. Here I get some awesome resource. I will try to share what I know.

I'm a full stack developer working on a different marketplace like Upwork, freelancer. I'm working on Laravel, WordPress, Vue, React, Nodejs applications. I love to take challenges and long term project. recently I publish some articles in medium.

Recently I'm learning AWS, docker, devops thinks. and I am enjoying it. Excited to learn more!

I like to read books and novels. also, I like gardening. there are about 45 different flowers in my garden.

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Hamza

Hi everyone! I was brought here by the amazing Jess Garson. I work with her on the developer relations team at Twitter.

I'll be browsing around here looking for cool projects and cool folks to connect with. Hopefully, I'll even see some of you at #TapIntoTwitter events. Let's be friends!

✌🏽😁 - @oiHamza

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Juha Seppänen

Got into dev.to when referred here by a colleague. It's interesting to see forums like this to pop up. I was a coder turned into a systems tester turned into interaction designer turned into project manager who turned into engineering manager who took a side step to become product manager. I nitpick about stupid interaction/UX mistakes (favorite: UI's with multiple languages at a time - did they run out of strings to translate in the contract?). Really interested in business problems of organisations who make money with software, directly or by using software systems. Dad, husband, retro computing nut (Apple 2 & Macs).

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f2c2

Hi everyone,

I graduated in Computer Science in 1998 and was an awful coder. It traumatized me to this day :)

I am now trying to relearn to code specifically web/front end development to see if I can overcome the trauma and shame of being a CS graduate that cannot code. :) I'm currently doing the #100DaysOfCode challenge following the #freeCodeCamp curriculum, you can follow me on Twitter @franciscaeiro.

I love technology but mostly what it can do for people. I have started introducing my kids to coding at the age of 8 and always incentivize them to learn as I honestly believe that coding is going to be the next literacy frontier.

If you love giving newbie tips and laugh at silly questions I'm probably your guy. :)

I'm a huge Star Wars fan so I'm more than happy to "trade" Star Wars fandom knowledge for coding tips.

Looking forward to checking the dev.to community!

Francisco

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ShishioXIII

Hello to everybody. My name is Christian and I'm a Colombian Java and Angular developer. I just strive for being a better developer each day of my career and to improve my skills. I hope to learn a lot in this community. Peace.

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Rohit Farmer

Hi there, I am Rohit, I work as a senior research analyst/staff scientist at NIH, USA. I am a computational biologist by training and do computation at the intersection of chemistry, biology and medicine. I am fond of ANN and enjoy working with Python. I am learning R for the genomics and CyToF pipelines for my upcoming projects.

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Tolase Kelvin Adegbite

I'm so glad I found this amazing community of developers. I'm a passionate Ruby on Rails beginner. I love to ask and give opinions to questions :)… Please, forgive me in advance if my question gets too much.

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Chris Enns 👨🏻‍💻

Hello world! I found this place because lots of much smarter nerds that I listen to / follow kept mentioning it.

One of my favourite things these days is how easy it is for a non-programmer like me to spin up a website using the latest cool toys with a service like Netlify.

Chris.

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elnigerian • Edited

Hey y'all,
Literally just joined. So, about me - by day, I work as a consultant - biz/tech strategy, and by night, I try to keep up with software engineering roots, which is mostly focused on building enterprise applications typically using Java as middleware, sql dbs, getting into nosql dbs, front end development and some devops, which btw is way over my head.

Happy to be here and hoping to learn + engage with many of y'all.

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Angelina

First time mom of a very hyper and beautiful little girl. Was a Gaming Editor for 9 years, worked with four different esports gaming companies. (Huge Gamer Here 😊) Trying to juggle school, work, and a household. Also, coffee is everything to me.☕️

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PuffTMD

Hey all, I'm enthusiastic to be better version of myself with interest in technology. I cam across this website looking for some informaiton "A guide to giving & receiving effective feedback" very impressed so I joined :)

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StevanPopo

Hey y'all - I learned how to code last year at a bootcamp and have been working as a developer for 7 months now. I'm starting to learn Python, having originally learned with JavaScript only. Excited to join this learning community!

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Gopal Meena

Hello to all, I am working as a full-stack (Angular, Nodejs, MongoDB, Reactjs) developer, I passionate to learn new technology like Aws. I started in a home Aws lambda function, API gateway, and Dynamodb, Please help to get better knowledge about Aws ServerLess API.

Thank you so much for here :)

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Praveen Kumar

I'm happy to be part this dev social plotform. Dev.to is a unique plotform and we can learn more from it. I'm a experienced person from LAMP, PHP, node.js, MySQL background. Looking for job as a freelancer or full-time job in any country. Currently making the most of my unemployment days by working on a side project in Vue.js, Laravel, PHP7 and Bootstrap.

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Cristian Paul Peñaranda Rojas

Hey everyone, dint knew about this website so here i’m ! Waiting to see , meet and discuss !

I’m currently works on a Dev*Ops position for a fin-tech. Been involved with FLOSS world for around 10 years now. Currently learning rust and looking how to change the web and the world a bit ;-)

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Dimitri Podborski • Edited

Hi guys. I must say I am really impressed by dev.to this looks really nice. I had exactly the same thoughts as Maricris as I first visited this site today: "How have I never heard of this place before?" 😄

I'm Dimitri and I work as a researcher at the Fraunhofer HHI in Germany. My work is mostly focused on high quality 360 video streaming. I am also involved in several standardization activities such as 3GPP and MPEG.
From coding perspective I am more a C++ & Python guy but I was also involved in some projects for Android and Unity so that Java and C# is not really a big deal for me now 😄
Last project of mine was a pure JavaScript implementation of a 360-degree video player based on the latest MPEG spec. At the same time, it was a great opportunity to learn some JS and I have to say that although I've read a lot of negative stuff about JS (mostly jokes how silly it is etc.) on the Internet, JS really impressed me. I'm a big fan now 😄

Have a nice day to all!

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Panos Kontogiannis • Edited

Hi all,
I'm Pano a Greek front end developer who share my 10+ years knowledge in blog7.org. I'm passionate in web development also willing learn new stuffs. Now i'm learning react js.

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Victoria Sapronova

Hello everybody:)

I'm a Russian girl with medical background who decided to change the career to IT.
I'm a self-taught Junior Developer. My first language is Python and right now I'm learning Kotlin for Android dev.
I'm excited to be a part of this community:)

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Quintius Walker

Where to start? So how'd I get here? Let's see. I tend to be long winded so I'll try my best to slim this. Sorry. Oh, you can just call me "Q". Yep, like the letter Q. :)

Shortest route is that I'm a rapper turned hacker who fell in love with coding along the way. Hacking sparked my interest in WAIT. Back up. It went like this actually; The group Anonymous sparked my interest in hacking, which sparked my interest in computers and Information Technology. Learned that there was such a thing as an ethical hacker which blew my mind BTW. Met cool mentors who said if you want to be an ethical hacker you'll have to learn the basics first...

Since "basics first" was all over the internet I decided I needed formal guidance thus checked into a community college and took a computer programming degree plan. From knowing nothing about coding I was promptly introduced to Visual Basic, C#, JavaScript, Java, PHP, SQL, MySQL, all somehow stuffed into 2 years. Given that I chose the online path, the formal guidance that I spoke about ended up being 2 years self-taught with the internet as my instructor anyway. This is precisely how I fell in love with coding! Fast-forward...

Look mentors I did it. I'm a nice amateur coder. Mentors say yeah that's awesome but if you want to be a hacker you by all means need to know the network. What the heck is that suppose to mean, right? (Rolls up sleeves.) This time check into a university with an IT Security degree plan. Learn all about the network but interestingly hit a coding hiatus as a result that lasted ahhhh' about...4 or so years. (shrinks down in chair). So how'd I get here??? (I'm almost done, sorry. But I did warn you beforehand about the long winded-ness).

Right when I'm drawing near the end of my IT-Sec degree, I end up taking a job as a full-time Frontend Developer. And almost overnight it seems I was reunited with my first love...Coding. If that isn't enough, I'm blessed (or cursed /shrug) to be in a position where the company doesn't care what language I use to get my duties on the front end fulfilled as long as the over all requirement works as expected and needed. Thus far I've relied on Visual Basic (because my senior backend SQL dev is an older accountant turned DBA who's skill set lies in VBA mainly) and JavaScript because that's the frontend language that I had the most experience with when I was separated from coding.

All things being considered, I think DEV is the flyest thing since the airplane and the best invention since sliced bread, ya dig? Nice to meet you guys. :)

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Cliff Gor

Hi guys 😊. I am happy 😃 to be on this platform and get to interact with other developers.

My name is Cliff and I have the 2 years of programming experience using languages such as Java Android and JavaScript with frameworks like React, Angular js, Node js and express js.

I am learning a lot from blogs posted on this platform and I hope to also start posting blogs and share with other developers.😃

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Advaith

What's up!

I'm Advaith. I can't wait to start creating, sharing, and learning from the content on this site! I'm really interested in telling compelling visuals. My core languages are Javascript (love using D3) and Python. And this is my latest project: (North American Industry Visualization)[naics-employment.surge.sh/].

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iqbal • Edited

Hi, I'm Iqbal, indonesian front end developer and UI UX Designer since 2015. Just joined the site about a month ago and always open this site every morning before work and at lunch since then. Come here looking for friends ( maybe someone who come from the same country or overseas ) and great reference to refresh my brain :-)

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Enrique René Beauxis Reyes

My name is Enrique René, I'm brazilian and bachelor on physics. I love math and science. On code, I like PHP on server side, serving as Rest API while React and React Native consume that to render beautiful screens which I love building. My favourite job is on frontend development.

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/*Sharkie*/

Well now this community sounds amazing! I look forward to learning along with everyone else here!

Me? I'm a Front End Developer, currently on that fun thing called the job hunt. And on that note, my current project is basically just fiddling around with my portfolio site and making it the best it can be!

I'm a strong believer in web accessibility, because the web is for everyone.

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manish naidu

Whoah. Hi guys. Just gotta say that I've been waiting for the next coolest social networking site, and I gotta say that this might just be it 🤓. How have I never heard of this place before?!
like it

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Hadrien • Edited

👋
I am Hadrien.
I've started working on conversational bots to automate medical intake & triage process using RASA framework. Super interesting & challenging project so far. If anyone has good reads on the subject, please share!

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Vishal Akkalkote

Hello Friends, My name is Vishal. I was surfing and some how I landed on one of the blog on DEV, It got my attention and after that I dig little deeper and what I got is, this really a cool networking. Love to be a part of this community to learn, to share and have some fun.
Little more about me. I have 7+ years of experience. Worked on different things e.g. Web application, creating Libs, Big Data, Kafka etc. Now working on Gemfire which is IMDG (In Memory Data Grid) and Apache Spark.
Primarily working on Java but have used Scala, C#, C++, Cuda and JavaScript

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Arinze Obi

Hi, my name is arinze I'm a new to software development...started my journey last year September on codecademy and I enjoy working with the MEAN stack, although I haven't quite gotten a hang of it..I'd really like to start building my own projects soon and quit jumping from tutorial to tutorial lol...my goal is to build software that can help accelerate development of underdeveloped countries