# Journey of learning and knowledge sharing: Dev Retro 2022

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](https://www.youtube.com/@TraversyMedia) and [CodeWithHarry](https://www.youtube.com/@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](https://reactjs.org/docs/hello-world.html) 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](https://blog.sachinchaurasiya.dev/how-opensource-contribution-can-change-your-life)

## 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](https://twitter.com/sachindotcom), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachin-chaurasiya/), and, [GitHub](https://github.com/Sachin-chaurasiya).

I'm also working on my personal website [sachinchaurasiya.dev](http://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](https://github.com/reactplay) and the [OpenMetadata](https://github.com/open-metadata) Community 🚀.

And that wraps up the **My Dev Retro 2022**, Thanks for reading. Do share if you have anything in the comments.