New to DEV.to - About me

#webdev #ffmpeg #webassembly #aws

New to DEV.to but not new to Software development.
20+ years into software development
Here is my journey -

90s dot com - noob web developer
Built Web products for large enterprises
Early member of a digital agency riding the Facebook/Orkut social media rush of mid 2000s (Successful exit)
Crash landed my hardware IOT startup and learnt hardware is hard (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/neo-the-first-social-storytelling-toy#/)
Currently building a webapp to help businesses create videos with ease Trying to find the first early users. Building and learning something new everyday with javascript/wasm/ffmpeg/aws/C and loving it!

What brings me here ?
To share my experiences/learning and code snippets when I build and learn everyday
Learning and connecting with other devs at dev.to

What interests me?
Im glad my favourite 'C language' is back and playing a major role in client side development via WASMs.
With WASM the power of computing has improved on the browsers. I am keenly interested in leveraging WASM and other client side computing technologies to improve the product performance, user experience and at the same time optimise costs for the product builder.

I have an eye on generative AI integrations

As a developer to improve productivity
As a builder to make a product smarter and provide more value to the user

Happy to help and discuss any questions on Javascript, AWS(Lambda/SQS/SES/S3/CloudFront), FFMPEG, Emscripten, WebCodecs, javascript, browser based computing using WASM/Workers, AI integrations

Header Image Credits - https://www.agilenative.com/2017/01/hello-world/

Top comments (13)

Andrew Bone • May 16

Welcome to Dev 😊

amythical • May 16

Thanks Andrew

a.infosecflavour • May 16

Welcome to DEV! 👋
We are waiting for you here, too dev.to/devteam/welcome-thread-v276...

Raj Nair • May 18

fellow mumbaikar here . Only difference is your years of experience in this industry is more than my age as I just passed my 12th grade and stepped foot into the learning experience . Hope I could do all the stuff that I have in my mind.

amythical • May 18

Now I really am a dinosaur :)
Happy to help in any way along your journey.
Youve passed your 12th grade at a wonderful time with the tech industry experiencing one of its biggest transitions with so many avenues open and so much to dream about.
Happy hacking!

Raj Nair • May 18

well , I am suffering from the dilemma of choosing between two interesting stuffs viz. web development and machine learning . I went ahead with web development and I sure as hell hope that I am not making a mistake because of not starting with machine learning keeping the current AI boom in mind.

amythical • May 18 • Edited

Doesnt have to be an either or ... you can learn both. Think of it as 2 different classes in your curricullum. At some point you may diverge and specialise in one of them but a machine learning consumer app needs web development for sure and most apps these days need machine learning/AI integration in someway or the other.
Even to use the AI models and make something custom, knowledge of machine learning is needed.
Go for both!

Anurag Vishwakarma • May 18 • Edited

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