Open Source Superstar and Roadmap.sh Founder Kamran Ahmed [Podcast #145]

We talk about:

- Kamran's tips for finding the right open source projects to contribute to
- Other specialized open source Kamran has built over the years
- How Kamran became a Google Developer Expert and GitHub Star

Can you guess what song I'm playing during the intro?

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Links we talk about during our conversation:

Chapters
0:09:19 The Power of Open Source Projects
0:16:53 Navigating Career Progression in Software Engineering
0:22:42 Lessons Learned from Working in Different Companies
0:27:22 The Value of Putting Yourself Out There
0:38:47 From Small Company to Startup: Seizing Opportunities
0:51:03 Growth Through Trust and Leadership
0:54:09 Learning and Expanding Skills Through Diverse Projects
0:56:06 From Dubai to Germany: A Journey of Growth and Exploration
0:58:21 Launching a Platform and Learning from Mistakes
1:01:31 Balancing Individual Contribution and Management
1:13:41 Moving to the UK and Settling Down
1:18:58 Contributing to Open-Source and Establishing Projects
1:21:31 Finding Project Ideas by Looking at Other Languages and Solving Problems
1:26:10 Promoting Projects and Embracing Negative Feedback

[nyustdent]

he's a great guy. didnt sell to keep it free. awesome work Kamran!

[ahmermirza]

When he's was telling the story of how his article got picked out and got featured on the frontpage of that news, my jaw dropped like crazy, in the way it never did before. 😯😵‍💫🤣

[matt_milack]

Sysadmin roadmap on Roadmap..sh would absolutely be life changing for me.

[aammssaamm]

That's why we have billions of so called "devs" writing by hands same things 50 times in a row and never questioning why on Earth they have to manually manage useless states in React and Angular. 😂

[realsteel]

Please also provide vhdl, verilog tutorials

[adilkadiwala]

Hey now the event is running named hacktoberfest

Where we can contribute,


But I faced issues when trying to set up a project locally, nobody is speaking about it,

Please make a video on how to setup large codebase project on local machine specially for GSOC

[kubectldelete]

The quote in the thumbnail makes me not take this guy very seriously.

[Wandery]

Ya I don't agree whatsoever. I am on my 3rd degree in CS and I have learned A TON through every single degree. Self-taught programmers are always worse than me at everything because they didn't learn the underlying mechanics of CS.