From Student👨‍🎓 To DevRel 🥑: A Memoir 📃

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Progate

The end of my sophomore year saw the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, which was a terrible time for most of us. As difficult as it may have been, it created a new set of remote work opportunities. One of the first ones I grabbed was my first internship as a Community Intern at Progate. Working with Progate has, till this day, been one of the most wholesome and fulfilling experiences that I have had on a professional front. I spent 5 months actively working with student communities all across India, empowering students to begin their journeys as independent developers with Progate.

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Code.org

An even bigger personal win for me was that, in our journey, CodeCapture was accepted by Code.org to be featured in the Hour of Code 2020. The Hour of Code is one of the world's largest computer science education movements, with activity in over 180 countries. It gave me my start in the world of computer science and programming during its first edition back in 2013. Through CodeCapture and Hour of Code, we were able to directly work with 250+ school and college students in India and impact many more indirectly. To be able to come full circle in such a manner and give back to people through the initiative that gave me my start in the tech world will always be something I’ll remain grateful for. It was the triumph I never realized I needed, and I will always be grateful to my teammates, Simran Makhija and Ekansh Gupta, for supporting me through my spiral and for earning this win.

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AppWrite

I started applying to various companies ranging from startups to big-tech for Developer Relations focused roles in July 2021. In this process, I had 4 companies respond positively. The first of these companies to complete my interview process and send an offer was Appwrite, a wonderful open-source Backend-as-a-Service platform. I genuinely fell in love with the project and the team through my interview process, and by the end of it, I felt this was the right place for me. On the 24th of August, Appwrite's Founder, Eldad Fux sent me my offer and on the 1st of September, I became Appwrite's 10th employee as a part-time DevRel Engineer (part-time because I was still at university). My journey with Appwrite has been ethereal, having worked on our Hacktoberfest 2021 activities, our participation in the GitHub Externship, the Appwrite x DEV Hackathon, and now that I am a full-time Developer Advocate, there are so many exciting things in store for everyone!

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