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I am a Google Developer Expert! πŸš€

Jakub Andrzejewski on December 05, 2022

Yes, this is correct! As of today, I am officially a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, and to be more specific, in the area of Web Perfo...
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Daniel Einars

Congrats man!

Don't take this the wrong way, I have absolutely no clue about GDEs, but is there any particular benefit you get from being a GDE? Better job offers or.. I don't know, something else I'm missing?

It sounds like s lot of hard work and, again, congratulations on sticking with it and succeeding!

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Jakub Andrzejewski

Thanks man! Sure, let me explain then as it was unclear to me as well :)

Becoming a GDE, apart from having the title, gives you access to the closed community of experts in certain area (in my example, web performance). With them, you can discuss important topics and share knowledge. You are also being invited for google specific events with travel reimbursement, you get Google SWAG, access to early versions of Google tools, discuss on certain trends.

It is also useful for better job offers as everyone knows Google right? ;)

It is a hard work but if you are keen on creating content and speaking at conferences, you already have what it takes. You just need to convert it into the google form and pass the interviews :)

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Duy K. Bui

It's not certification of your development expertise. It's more like an ambassador program.

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Konstantin BIFERT

Here we go buddy! πŸ’ͺ🏻🎊
I'm not even surprised tbh. Well deserved, enjoy! πŸ…

Also, Alba is quite pushy with people she knows (in a good way), so it's great that she suggested you to apply. πŸ€—

Any more goals next year? Or mainly focus on conferences + YouTube + articles?

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Jakub Andrzejewski

Thanks Kissu!

Haven't decided yet. I would love to go to Amsterdam for VueAmsterdam and VueConfUs. It would be awesome to finally check them out of my list. Apart from that, mainly dev content. I would like to grow my YT channel as it is currently my weakest point ;)

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Konstantin BIFERT

The screen there is quite dope for sure! 🀘🏻😎

The YouTube channel will come, don't worry. Just needs a bit of time but you'll get there don't worry. πŸ’ͺ🏻

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Ben Halpern

Congrats!

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Jakub Andrzejewski

Thank you!

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Jesus Guerrero

The Avuenger, congrats ! Thanks for the detailed info. Good to know they give it for something beyond google products related.

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Jakub Andrzejewski

Fellow Avuenger, Have you seen my talk at NuxtNation? :)

Yes, they care about community, trends, and developer and user experience as well. But it also has to be related in some way with their products (you are GOOGLE Dev Expert in the end ;))

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Jesus Guerrero

Yes I saw the talk, it was entertaining.

Ah I get it, it makes sense, thanks for the clarification.

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Duy K. Bui

It's still Google related products such as lighthouse but not exclusively Google.

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Roman

Amazing! Congratualation on becoming a GDE!

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Jakub Andrzejewski

Thank you!

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Bobby Iliev

That is awesome!

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hayerhans

Wow that's awesome! Thanks for your work to the community!
Well deserved πŸš€

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Eko Developers

Congratulations. You're going places!
When is the next meetup?

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Jakub Andrzejewski

Thank you buddy!

I believe in January, there will be another GDE Summit. Apart from that, there are many DevFests that you can attend to learn more about the program :)

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Leonardo Montini

Congratulations and thanks for sharing your personal experience!

I recently started creating content too, I'd love one day to join the GDE community ❀️

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Jakub Andrzejewski

Fingers crossed!

Do not hesitate to contact me so that I can give you some guidance :)

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Suraj Gond

Congratulations, you have achieved the position you wanted to achieve with your hard work and dedication.

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Jakub Andrzejewski

Thanks Suraj!

It required hard work, but this is what I love about Web Development! :)

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Habib Manjotha

*Congrats * @jacobandrewsky

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Jakub Andrzejewski

Thank you Habib! :)

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Michael Synan

Amazing, inspired to do so myself :)

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Night_machine

Congrats man, I hope to also be a GDE some day

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Okoro chimezie bright

congrats

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Bryce Howitson

Congrats and welcome to the GDE community! Its great to have more people focused on Vue to round out discussions.

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Jakub Andrzejewski

Hey Bryce, thanks!

I am really glad to be joining this amazing community! I will be probably sharing more and more Vue/Nuxt related content about Web Performance (with Google tools as well ;))

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JangamaViswanath

❀ly sharing

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Jakub Andrzejewski

Thank you!

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Jason Boxman

Congrats!

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Jakub Andrzejewski

Thanks Jason!

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Quang Pham

Congratulations on reaching the goal and thank you for all of your posts.

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Jakub Andrzejewski

Thank you Quang!

It was a lot of work but I am happy to achieve my milestone for this year :)

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Merc Opolo

You have explored an interesting path, it was nice to read

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Domenico Tenace • Edited

Congratulations on reaching this goal! 😁

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Jakub Andrzejewski

Thanks Domenico! Ticking this milestone from my todo list ;)

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Anna Migas • Edited

Congrats! I am a GDE in web perf for a few years but I think they did not update the categories yet (it used to be generic Web Technologies one) :)

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Jakub Andrzejewski

I see. Then congratulations to you! I am happy to be joining you then! :)

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DAREALENDERJACK

nice job and question i want to recomed to google up the secureity i am in the range of 12-18 years old so obveoly i am gonna try to bypass the security and i juts want you to tell google to please up there security it is kinda easy to by pass