Retsam19 and MapleLeaf are long-time Reactiflux MVPs who have spent countless hours helping out others in the community. Event MC'd by Carl Vitullo, and hosted on Reactiflux. MapleLeaf and Retsam19 are two of our resident TS experts and longtime server MVPs. Both are active in the open source community as highly skilled engineers, and Retsam19 moderates the official TypeScript Discord server. Through our conversation, we discussed how we got our starts in software development and our first...

Mark Erikson and Lenz Weber-Tronic are long-time Reactiflux members and maintainers of Redux. Event MC'd by Carl Vitullo, and hosted on Reactiflux. Mark (@acemarke) has been primary maintainer of Redux for 6 years and led development of Redux Toolkit, which was a major step forward in usability for the ecosystem. He's approaching the end of his first year in a new role at Replay.io, a time-traveling browser debugger. Before that, he spent the majority of his career — over 13 years — at 1...

On August 2nd, Carl Vitullo (vcarl) and Scott Coates (scottc) talked with Alex Coates (avcoates) about early software career approaches. Topics discussed include: Interview skills Finding mentors Negotiating raises Early steps to build a great career and more! Listen to hear two senior developers talk with a junior developer about working at and leveling up your first job.

On June 14th, Carl Vitullo (vcarl) and Scott Coates (scottc) talked about starting your career in web development. Topics discussed include: Writing your resume Preparing for interviews Portfolio project tips Overcoming technical challenges Early steps to build a great career and more! Listen to hear two senior developers talk about starting your software career.