I've spent the last few months figuring out "What do I want to do in tech now?"
I have been a developer, educator, technical writer, community coordinator and more. (If you want to learn more about my interview process the last few months you can check out this post)
A couple of months ago I applied for a role at DEV. At the time I created a draft post titled "Christina at DEV" and told them at the end that "Hopefully in the future I can turn this into an "I joined DEV" post instead 😀"
I didn't get that role but... Now I do get to create a post for my role as the new Open Source Community Manager for DEV.🎉
Why I joined DEV
As a developer I spent way too much time trying to figure out where to blog or "revamping" my own website. I always knew I wanted to blog but didn't really get started until I found DEV.
DEV has been an amazing and encouraging community for me. A lot of opportunities I have had the last 2 years have been because of my posts on DEV and engagement with the community. DEV and now Forem, are products I use and love and I couldn't be more excited to join this team.
Open-source and community are essential to DEV and I hope my skills and varied background will be valuable to the DEV team and the DEV community. I look forward to continue building up the Open Source community here and helping contributors have a wonderful experience.
More About Me
I started out in tech as a Front-end developer. I love creative coding and have a lot of fun creating crazy animations and art with code over on CodePen. On the side, I teach courses for platforms like Egghead.io and LinkedIn Learning.
I am a mom of 4 and my life is always a little wild. 🙃
My family and I currently live in Costa Rica. I like to share pictures of our goats and the sloths that hang around our property.
We also have a giant Mastiff named Appa who thinks she is tiny.
If you ever have any questions, comments, or just want to chat, feel free to reach out!
Where you can find me
You can follow me here on DEV, as well as on other social media:
Top comments (28)
So awesome to have you on the team, Christina.
And I'm really siked to hear your dog's name is Appa. Whenever we're trying to get our dog up and moving, we always holler "yip yip!" 😀
Yes, Appa also comes to yip yip! 😄
Do you think Appa would get along with my black cat Iroh?
Please say yes haha
Congrats!
She loves cats, they just don't always love her 😬
Wow, I just signed in to DEV for the first time and the very first post I read has sloths and dogs in it :D Loving the site already. Keep up the good work!
Ahh! Sloths! Ahh!!!!!!!
Welcome to the team, Christina!!!
I'm so excited for you!
Congratulations 🎉🎊
Welcome to DEV Christina. Quick question can I ask about your journey in open source contribution?
Sure, anything in particular you are wondering about? :) Or just my time in open source in general?
I want to know how did you started your open-source journey? What were your initial contributions? How are you contributing now?
Ok! I don't have a ton of open source contributions in the sense of code but I do for better documentation. My main focus is to help others contribute and I do that by creating better docs, managing issues/PRs and supporting the community however I can. My current biggest open source project is the 100DaysofCloud community. I am one of the Core Team members there. It is a work in progress but we have over 1000 members currently in our Discord channel.
Congratulations to both you and the team! You’re joining a bunch of really awesome people! 🥳
Welcome to the team!!