Gregor Martynus - Maintainer of the JavaScript Octokit, GitHub's official JavaScript SDK

Talking Points: Maintaining GitHub's official JavaScript SDK Making users and developers life's easier Being a valuable asset to your manager and team Growth through communication You are entitled to mentorship Quotable Quotes: "I would say you are entitled to mentoring." - GM "You [Junior dev] have a unique perspective that I lost a long time ago" - GM "It's an easy sell. If you say I can automate this with two hours of work." - GM "Writing skills are so important besides the coding aspect itself." - GM "Maybe you're out of university or boot camp or a career change, you still have to great perspective." - GM "When you do any kind of interview, a question I would definitely ask is, what is your mentorship program?" - GM "When you look over the shoulder of a more experienced developer, you will have so many points where you will be like...how did you do that?" - GM Notes: octokit.js - GitHub's official JS SDK for their platform APIs: github.com/octokit/octokit.js/ A Twitter account tweeting issues for first-time contributors: twitter.com/first_tmrs_only A complete backend for your apps: hood.ie Hood.ie's GitHub: github.com/hoodiehq A whole community about landing open source contributions by @bdougie: opensauced.pizza Gregor's Twitter: twitter.com/gr2m Gregor's Github github.com/gr2m Gregor's Helpdesk Show: github.com/gr2m/helpdesk Junior to Senior Community community.juniortosenior.io