My first job after completing my graduation was photoshop designer for websites at a start up company.

my first day task was, still vividly remember, to re-desinged a sa-re-ga-ma-pa singer's photo for his landing page of portfolio website.

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#nostalgia #rememberingFirstJob
Unfortunately, I had to resign the next day as I got joining date from TCS, which I was placed in my 6th sem (one year before completing graduation).

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TCS, 12 years ago is different than current image.
3.2LPA was big achievement for a lower middle class family. being a first gen engineer in my family there was a sense of achievement.

I was trained on email etiquette, soft skills, spoken english and got to learn doteNet.

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TCS was/is my pride, it has given me my bread, respect in the community(debatable ;))

I have come a long way now. Journey from service based to product based company.

Full stack to front-end only!

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I don't regret not remembering/working on full stack. My current job is enough proof that I can go on in front-end for ever as far as I think(highly opinionated)
May be the hint was I'm more leaned towards art side than data intensive.

I see the dots connecting in my journey.

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5 years of dotnet with TCS -

In my first project, I happened to work on Ajax to partially update a part of the page. updating a dropdown without refreshing entire page was an achievement within org and tech world that time.

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Worked independently, converted a MSAccess app to VB(dot)Net.

Worked on C#(dot)net in the next projects and was at a saturation point.

I still stayed with the hope of onsite opportunities for 5 years and my salary at that time was around 6LPA!!!

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After 5 years with TCS, switchd to a French investment bank&financial services company as a full stack dotNet developer, in just 6 months worked on a angular project
as part of a tech competition held @ org.
That project happened to win 3rd prize.

dawn of front-end journey.

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Worked on angularJs 1.28 for couple of months and the work post tech competition was insane.
spent most of my weekends in office along with my SQL tech lead.
we roled the web app to production, first in org to implement cutting edge technologies to solve legacy reporting issues
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after a year, switched to another science company, got to work on angular alpha version. every day task involved, checkout new version, read release notes, do pocs and adopt the new code in projects😄

That was the time of riding through angular journey.

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as we reached Angular 2, we slowed a bit to implement project details and settled down with 4.

Mean while, as a challenge to my reporting manager, I worked on project's core functionality (asp(dot)net mvc).
still failed to convince them my worth.

I made 3rd jump.

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3rd was rather a leap.

I joined an Investment bank, working as a single front-end developer in the team. I had to work on lot of things which I never focused earlier.
Setting up new project from the scratch @angular really made my life easy to set up everything out of the box
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@angular with best of the best things coming from starter project, it lead me to dig through deeper problems in the project.

I had to go through lot of articles covering in depth @indepth_dev @Angular_InDepth were life lines.

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@angular @indepth_dev @Angular_InDepth Understanding the company design style guide and Implemented a library of common components single handedly which was used in multiple projects later on.

Building common modules for re-use with all the customization allowed and proper checks is no less than a art.

Angular*3,
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@angular @indepth_dev @Angular_InDepth All 3 years I dived deep into Angular for all my projects in my prev org and had to learn lot of design patterns and then fell in love with functional programming.

it was hard for me to think functionally instead of OOP way.

I never noticed when I transition completely

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@angular @indepth_dev @Angular_InDepth after 3 years of expedition in web,
I got a call from my current org HR and everything followed,
interview passed by without talking a single word about angular!!!

I made my last jump and I'm currently working on @reactjs & @vuejs vue projects simultaneously.

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@angular @indepth_dev @Angular_InDepth @reactjs @vuejs In my journey, I learned the way of the web and that I realized recently.

I still miss my microsoft world of dot nets, angulars and many more. plans are in pipeline to learn azure.



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@angular @indepth_dev @Angular_InDepth @reactjs @vuejs This s my Full-stack to front-end only journey.

a novice photoshop designer ➡ to full-stack dot net developer ➡ to front end engineer

Along side I have picked up lots of life values, I will save it for another thread.

ThankYou techTwitterCommunity for makingMe Write MyStory.

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