| name | title | avatar | |
|---|---|---|---|
Telmo Goncalves |
Lead at Marley Spoon |
telmo |
This story takes place way before all the excellent tools we currently have to help us achieve brilliant and innovative tools.
Let me give you some context, I got my first computer when I was 15 years old, a little late in life to be honest, but I fell in love at first sight, I did not spend 24/7 because my mom would not let me.
I dropped out of school when I was 17 years old, at that time I was spending most of my time playing Counter-Strike when I should’ve spent it learning how to code, a naive child I was. I spent 1 year of my life doing absolutely nothing. At 18, I got an ultimatum from my mom. I had to get a job, right away.
A month later I started working in a warehouse, picking up products to send to the central stores, I worked there for 2 years when I decided I had to do something, I was not willing to work there my whole life. So I co-founded a startup with a friend of mine, my primary role was UI / UX, but quickly had to move into the development department. I had started learning PHP while working in the warehouse at the same time.
I never looked back, I now have a ~ 10-year career and can’t be happier. I have learned a lot in the past 10 years, I have moved from PHP to Ruby on Rails. Back in the day, we used MooTools instead of jQuery, but we ended up switching to jQuery at the end.
I have learned about jQuery, CoffeeScript, AngularJS, and most recently ReactJS, Redux, GraphQL, etc.;