Under the high patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI may god assist him 🇲🇦
Devoxx Morocco 2023 🇲🇦 October 11-13, Taghazout Agadir, Morocco.
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Under the high patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI may god assist him 🇲🇦
Devoxx Morocco 2023 🇲🇦 October 11-13, Taghazout Agadir, Morocco.

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djalal elbe
Makeness

DevOps practitioner, Cloud Engineer and Backend Dev, i.e getting paid to get ship done with software and infrastructure all over the world.

25 years of learning and , never kept the same job more than 3 years, serial entrepreneur.

Maintains mental health with remote work, community activities and human-first relations.
7 projects to bootstrap a fullstack developer career and win at job interviews
Conference (INTERMEDIATE level)
Taroudant C
Career Path API Hacking Hiring SaaS Hard Skills Soft Skills
After interviewing dozens of first-time developers in 2023, I found they were showing 3 same symptoms:
  • only got a crappy PFE internship
  • stuck with freelance gigs
  • an inconsistent resume
I thought "these are talented people! they would win big time... if only they could showcase some real world projects", and thus I devised an ideal roadmap that I, as a recruiter, would be excited to find in any resume.

7 real world projects to convince any interviewer

The plot twist is that it's one long project in 7 milestones, demonstrating long-term vision and productification
1 - ship a CLI tool
  • hard skills: linux, system, git
  • soft skills: ideation, documentation
2 - ship the CLI as an API
  • hard skills: backend, asynchronous processing, rate-limit
  • soft skills: ideation, apification
3 - ship an automation to consume API from repos
  • hard skills: github actions, UX/UI
  • soft skills: test, user docs, DX
4 - ship a SaaS for end users
  • hard skills: auth-n, auth-z
  • soft skills: marketing, bizops
5 - ship an integration for automation
  • hard skills: oauth, zapier
  • soft skills: 3rd party marketplace
6 - ship a browser extension
  • hard skills: frontend, UX/UI
  • soft skills: support, user docs, marketplace
7 - share your achievements
  • hard skills: JAMstack, public cloud deployments
  • soft skills: personal branding, content creation
bonus points, split the work with another partner!
  • hard skills: submit patches, process design
  • soft skills: negotiation, team building
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