Have you ever wondered whether being part of the tech community and doing Open Source will help you get a job? 

I interviewed Naomi Carrigan and Lucy Macartney for this session of Developer Stories on why they feel it is worth investing the time giving back to the tech community and how this has helped them land their freelance remote jobs with Sema.  Matt Van Itallie, CEO and Founder of Sema shares his insights on what he is looking for in candidates.

In this session of Developer Stories I sit down with Emma Dawson to talk about her journey from school teacher (who leapt at the chance of teaching code to school students when no one else would...) to a web developer.  Emma is also a Moderator, Maintainer and Ambassador of my community EddieHub - providing help, support and inspiration to all community members.

Jae is the founder of Mentor Mesh that is all about "Learn. Grow. Achieve". In this episode we talk about how to build your network and grow within a thriving community of tech-passionate, lifelong learners.

Lucy is a self-taught developer who fell in with coding in 2020 and EddieHub ambassador, technical writer and freelancer!

Kunal Kushwaha is setting a great example on how students can start getting work experience early as well as making money on the side, then setting themselves up for a great career.

A self-proclaimed "Dev in my 30's", Julia Undeutsch spent some time talking to me about switching careers into tech and her passion for helping others do the same.

I geeked out with Adelina Simion who is a Technology Evangelist working at Form3, based in London. Adelina has been a Software Engineer since 2014, working at first in Java, then converted to Go in 2018.

Francesco really stands out in the tech community and I have a great time chatting to him about how he got into tech and his tips to making an impact.

We all have challenges, but we must power through, the supportive tech community will help you! 

We learn from Sylvia's story and challenges, as a self taught developer.

I have always been interested in the journeys that have led people into tech - not one journey is the same.  So that is why I have created "Developer Stories", where I chat to some very interesting people at different stages of their careers, about how and what led them to get into tech and their hopes for the future.  

I hope their stories inspire you as much as they inspired me - enjoy this series!