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Hi there! I'm Fatou.
My name is Ndeye Fatou Diop, and I am a Senior Frontend Engineer at Palantir from Senegal 🇸🇳, living in France.
My non-linear journey with Frontend development started in 2014:
in 2014, I interned at a company using WordPress ⇒ this introduced me to Web Development
2014 - 2018: while in college, I learned basic Web Development and applied it to small projects. I could do basic HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, Django, etc...
June 2018 - June 2020: I worked as a Software Engineer with Python, Spark, etc.. and occasionally with Javascript
Since June 2020, I have been working full-time as a FE engineer
Sadly, until 2019, I couldn't level up my JS skills and understand why the JS ecosystem was so complex 😢. I tested different learning platforms (Codeacademy, Treehouse, Udemy) but was unsuccessful.
Then, I stumbled across the YDNJS book series and FrontendMasters, which immensely helped me. They also made me realize my biggest mistake: I didn't know the fundamentals. Because I was self-learned, I didn't take the time to master the basics, and as a result, a lot of things look like magic 🧙🏾♀️ to me.
I don't want other people to make the same mistakes. That is why I created this blog to help overwhelmed junior frontend devs reach the next level in their career faster. I want you to know why some technologies exist (CSS, React, Typescript, etc.), and what you need to know about them.
If you are learning Web Development and feel overwhelmed, join me on this journey 🥳.