7 projects to bootstrap a fullstack developer career and win at job interviews
Conference (INTERMEDIATE level)
Anaw
After interviewing dozens of first-time developers in 2023, I found they were showing 3 same symptoms:

1 - ship a CLI tool
- only got a crappy PFE internship
- stuck with freelance gigs
- an inconsistent 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 productification1 - ship a CLI tool
- hard skills: linux, system, git
- soft skills: ideation, documentation
- hard skills: backend, asynchronous processing, rate-limit
- soft skills: ideation, apification
- hard skills: github actions, UX/UI
- soft skills: test, user docs, DX
- hard skills: auth-n, auth-z
- soft skills: marketing, bizops
- hard skills: oauth, zapier
- soft skills: 3rd party marketplace
- hard skills: frontend, UX/UI
- soft skills: support, user docs, marketplace
- hard skills: JAMstack, public cloud deployments
- soft skills: personal branding, content creation
- hard skills: submit patches, process design
- soft skills: negotiation, team building
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.
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.