The year 2021 in review with Alemsbaja
The goal is to grow consistently overtime rather than been obsessed with getting all perfect at once approach.
The year was all round centered on God's Grace to grow in the midst of my weakeneses.
January was all the planning phase, resuming PPA, doing data vendor to cover up the expenses on data consumption, building skills and sharing information and applying for remote jobs.
Moving forward in February, participated in the 30days of Google with Flutter where I did a journal app to obtain the badge afterwhich the access to Code with Andrea flutter bootcamp was recieved from Google. Really good resources. yoo!!!
Missed a remote offer because I wasn't familiar with DevOps.
In March, got a remote intern position that made a great impact on my tech journey😁. Thanks to Mr. Miller Adulu CEO FROGTechnology. In an environment where your boss is concerned about your well-being, spiritual and career growth is something I can't forget in a hurry.
The push at FROG to always dare new things and logical implementations with deadlines weren't comfortable and easy but along the line, it became an additional skill.
It was formerly Laravel and Tailwindcss but moving forward due to the flutter background I'd migrate to consuming Laravel APIs on mobile apps.
The internship opened me up to in-depth learning most notably:
- The use of lucid architecture in developing Laravel application
- Filament admin package to easily build admin panel.
- Got better at teaming work
- Improved on Vuejs and added Inertiajs
- Learnt stuff around Github actions
- Use of Digital Ocean to manage production app
- Deploying mobile apps on playstore
- Got better at git commands and writing good git commit messages
All good yea it was a wonderful experience. 🙌🙌
Wrote more articles on medium and Hashnode
Registered Thinkficial Engineering Network created a mailing account, branded a T-shirt, letterhead....
Ideally what was to mark the launch of the business into the public was the book i wanted to publish "Tech is Easy to learn" absolutely done with everything. But due to some reasons, I'd to quit the business conversation of formatting the book for publication.
Prior to this time I've done a presentation on the book and have done publicity but then in all things, thanksgiving is key in whatever we planned to do that didn't work out.
I tried some programs like Tefconnect (didn't get past the disruptors stage), Turing Technical Interview (failed twice 🙄).
Enjoyed my favorite hobbies traveling and soccer.
Literally went on the street to do evagenlism personally.
The network grew wider with both technical and non-technical great minds. (physically and virtually)
Read books notably Rick Royner (the final call, the quest) & Purpose Driven Life.
Worked on final year projects software-based and research based topics, crushed some side gigs and collaborate on projects too😁.
Enjoyed the football team as my community development service 😍😍😍.
Published an article about NYSC service year on medium while wrapping up the service year.
Got a fullstack developer role after service in November.
Got into a technical writing support group that encouraged me to wrap up this article. Thanks, Cynthia Peter💪
Made more MONEY this year 🤭🤭🤭 like triple last year earnings 😁🤗.
Well, went the way of investments.
I'd ups and downs in the year which are now added knowledge for the years ahead.
I've learnt not to joke with time schedules either personal, meetings or appointments for any reasons. The lesson was costly after I missed a cool offer because I showed up late 😁 but it won't repeat itself. 🙄
All thanks to El-Gibor for the year 2021. Super grateful
Thanks for reading!!!