Wrapping up 2022!!

If I have to describe my year 2022 in a few words I would say - "Power of manifesting".

I stopped making new year goals long back. I now go with the flow.

As I look back I see growth, learning, and enjoying life.

So, here are the highlights of my 2022:

🧳 Moved to London

I started this year with the huge step for my career and life - I moved to London.

I had tweeted all my experience over twitter - food, travel, struggle of finding house, etc.

After spending almost 8 months in London, I can say this is my 2nd home.

🫶🏾 Moved to IC (Individual Contributor) from Engineering Manager

I moved to Engineering Manager role 3 years back. I was enjoying as first-time manager. It was a learning an experience

However, sooner I realized that EM is not something I am keen to keep doing all my life. I was already close to coding. I finally decided to move back to the developer track.

It is now 4 months since I move back to the development track. I am extremely happy with my decision. Reasons:

1) Less meetings

2) Remote work

3) More control on my calendar

4) Closer to what I prefer to do - Coding

🫶🏾 Talks

This was the year when I decided to reduce my public talks. I wanted to focus more on learning new skills. But still, I gave a few talks:

1. Keynote at React India

2. Accessibility at RDS

3. Testing at Pesto

✊ Workshops

2022 opened a new opportunity for me where I taught students different tech. The batch size was between 25 - 40.

1. ReactJS

2. NodeJS

3. Full Stack Web Development

4. AWS

5. Testing of FE apps

6. Web development

Started my YouTube channel

Infact (re)-started my youtube channel. There is so much to talk and share about from my experience, so, Idecided to restart my YouTube channel.

🫰🏽 Travel

This year I have travelled a few places

✌️ Started Learning to drive

I started learning to drive in London. I am super excited and excited to learn to drive this time.

👏 Topmate Top Creator

Topmate.io is my go-to place to meet new folks and for 1:1. I didn't know when I joined that within 1 year I would be their top creator.

They were so awesome that they sent me the goodies pack all way to London.

👏 Dev.to top author and crossed 100k views

Thanks to all wonderful folks who read my blog :)

👏 AWS Community Builder Program

I started my AWS journey a few years back.Srushith guided me for AWS and he introduced me to community builder program.

🧘🏽‍♀️ Started Yoga

After moving to London, my health became my priority. I was doing 10k steps daily. I now wanted to get myself into a more active life. Hence, yoga :)

What didn't worked:

1 . Calligraphy

I wish I could do more art and calligraphy. I missed artistry-neha. But I still did a few artworks. Here is for your eyes:

2 . Certificates

I wanted to get my AWS certificates but I was not able to book them. Definitely, 2023 would be my year for certificates

Overall 2022 was a great year and I am thankful to everyone and all opportunities.