Hello folks, My name is Sachin Chaurasiya and I'm Software Engineer, Open Source Contributor and Technical Writer.
I would like to take this Dev Retro 2022 opportunity and share my Journey of learning and knowledge sharing.
Start of the journey 🎬
It all started in my second year of college and I started with web development by learning the basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript from TraversyMedia and CodeWithHarry.
After learning the basics I built small projects to gain confidence in whatever I have learned.
Then I started learning ReactJs and I followed the Main Concepts section of the official ReactJs Doc. After understanding the what and why of ReactJs I moved to Project-based learning and built some projects with ReactJs.
During this period I observed one thing there is a lot of content available and folks are sharing their learnings and documenting their learnings.
I also felt that I should start sharing whatever I have learned and then I started writing technical articles.
Overall starting was good and faced some challenges but with the help of structure learning, I overcome those challenges.
And Finally, In May 2021, I got my first job, Thanks to LinkedIn 🥳.
Open Source Contribution 💡
Open Source has played a vital role in my journey and I have learned a lot from Open Source Contribution.
I have contributed to 20+ Open Source Projects and learned the following things.
How to work with different people
How to explain things to others
How to ask for help
How to help others
How to learn from other people's work
How to gain more experience from the process
Read more about my Open Source Journey
Knowledge sharing ✍️
Learning in public is one of the best things an individual can do and I did, During this period I shared my learning through LinkedIn, Twitter and My blog.
I got a great response from the community and feedback that helped me to improve and work on the things that I was missing.
Overall knowledge sharing was the best decision I made and I would like to continue this process to improve myself at every point.
What I learned In My First Job ✨
The first job is always special and exciting, but for me, it was more exciting because I was about to work on some real-world projects 😍.
My training started and I got my first assignment. The asked in assignment was to use TypeScript that I haven't used before. I took this assignment as an opportunity to learn and implement new technology.
After going through official documents and some articles, I learned the typescript and implemented it in the given assignment and finally, I completed my assignment.
Now comes the most interesting part, Code Review, in code review I got a lot of feedback about my code and also the approach I took to complete the assignment. that day I learned the importance of feedback and I worked on it.
There are many incidents like this but covering all of it's not possible in this article so I will summarize my learning through the following points.
If you never ask then no one will know your problem
Do your research before asking for the help
Be ready for new learnings and challenges
Interact with your colleagues
Share your learnings with others
Work with honesty
Grab the given opportunity
Feedbacks are for you so take it and work on it.
Ask for feedback.
Personal Growth 🚀🚀
I worked on my various social handles to interact, learn, share and collaborate. Currently, I am active on Twitter, LinkedIn, and, GitHub.
I'm also working on my personal website sachinchaurasiya.dev and planning to include all the resources and tools that I used and still using in my journey.
I'm an active member of ReactPlayIo and the OpenMetadata Community 🚀.
And that wraps up the My Dev Retro 2022, Thanks for reading. Do share if you have anything in the comments.