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Jacob Herrington (he/him)
Jacob Herrington (he/him)

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Challenger Approaching: I am joining the DEV team!

It's official, today is my first day working with the DEV team.

I've made a handful of PRs to DEV and posted a few articles here, but I'm stoked to be contributing to this platform in an official capacity.

I'm a self-taught software engineer from Northwest Arkansas (πŸ—), and I help maintain the Solidus ecommerce platform. I also run a podcast about developer career paths.

Joining DEV as Senior Software Engineer means I'll be shipping new features, helping maintain the project, and working to improve the existing codebase. The opportunity to write code for this platform excites me, but I'm also very interested in finding new ways to get involved with this community.

While I'm working with the DEV team, I will strive to be open and accessible. I care deeply about inclusivity and transparency, so I'll make every effort to model those ideals in my actions. In the spirit of being accessible, I'm always happy to receive DMs on DEV or any other platform I use.

I look forward to growing with DEV and seeing my contributions benefit this group of people. I'm super grateful to the DEV team for trusting me with their project and the DEV community for making it possible to do this kind of thing for a living.

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Michael Tharrington

Welcome to the team, Jacob! πŸ₯³

And might I add, that's a great last name you have. So familiar, yet still so different. πŸ™‚

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

πŸ˜‚ Glad to be here!

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Pauline

Congratulations Jacob! πŸŽ‰

Your name looked awfully familiar to me and I just realised that it's because I found your instagram profile early 2018 and really liked your "coding pictures" ha! Very random fact but I wanted to share it anyway. πŸ˜‚ Great to see you here on DEV.to and wishing you the best of luck on this new chapter. πŸ™ŒπŸ»

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Yaser Al-Najjar

Congratz Jacob πŸ₯³

I really enjoy your content... All the best!

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Thanks Yaser, I'm glad you get something out of it πŸ€™

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Laurie

So fun! Congrats Jacob!

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Yeah, it seems like a pretty good gig πŸ˜‰

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Chris Achard

Congrats! πŸŽ‰

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Thanks, Chris!

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vinodchauhan7

Hey Jacob, Please guide me on this. I also want to contribute in open source community and want to grab opportunities like you.

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Howdy! I saw your DM and I promise to get back to it soon :)

I'd love to help you get some PRs on Dev during Hacktoberfest if you're around!

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vinodchauhan7

yes will wait for it.

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Loftie Ellis

Congrats!
I'm curious since you mentioned you are from Arkansas, is Dev.to mostly remote working people?

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Yup! At the moment I'm the westernmost employee at DEV, but it's a pretty distributed team.

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Ahmad Awais ⚑️

Congrats! πŸŽ‰

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Thanks Ahmad!

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Dzhavat Ushev

That's awesome! Congrats! πŸŽ‰

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Thanks 😁 I'm pumped

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Johannes Lichtenberger

Congrats, very cool :-)

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Thanks! I'm excited πŸ€ πŸ‘