I'm providing free mentorship to aspiring developers!

Hi! If you're new here, get to know a bit about me. It is important because I consider education as a serious thing, so it's important to make sure you're learning from the right person.

You would have a lot of questions about this program, and how to enroll in it. I would like to answer all these questions in this article.

Who are you?

My name is Mehul Mohan, and I like to call myself a developreneur. This word has no meaning and I coined it a year back on my LinkedIn profile, as a blend of developer and entrepreneur. I like to make things using code and love the business and outreach side of it too. Hence, your developreneur :)

Anyway, I'm a full-stack developer working mostly with JavaScript and it's associated runtimes (Node/Electron/React Native). Make no mistake, I do not aim to brag, but just establish reasoning why you won't be wasting your time listening to my advice:

1. I'm the author of two books - Learn ECMAScript and Advanced Web Development with React
2. I'm a WWDC'19 scholarship winner - one of a few hundred people who attended Apple's WWDC 2019 conference in San Jòse, California for free :)
3. I've worked as a security researcher in the past - found bugs in Google, Microsoft, eSet, Sony, Invision, etc. Find me on Google's Hall of Fame
4. I'm a developer YouTuber as well, running a YouTube channel called codedamn with 1100+ videos, 117K subscribers and 16 million views.
5. I have a Computer Science Engineering bachelor's degree from BITS Pilani - one of the top universities in India.

Of course, feel free to stalk me all up on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter! Send a connection/follow request too :)

Why free mentorship?

In the process of providing value to the community, I have published tons and tons of free things. But unfortunately, no matter how good of work you're doing, the first thing you have to do is to make yourself visible to the world. I received this great piece of advice from my friend and the central engine guy of freeCodeCamp - Quincy Larson. The other day when we were having a call, he told me about the importance of putting your product in front of people first so they do not pick bad and paid options at first only to realize there exist better options.

This got me into thinking about how can I myself reach out to people first, and impact the developer community at the same time - right hitting at the problem source. A lot of good "future" developers are giving up on development every day because of no correct guidance or path they should follow. I want to start small but strong and this is where I think I could start.

What could you expect?

I consider myself a jack of all trades and master of some, at least while deploying web applications. I would be able to help you out with things including but not limited to:

1. Getting into web development
2. Your career choices
3. Preparing for a job/interview for a startup or small business and teaching what goes in real-world development (not only DSA/competitive/"cracking" interview things)
4. Web development question/queries
5. Containerization/Docker/Working with Linux systems
6. Open-source
7. CI/CD
8. Becoming a better developer in general
9. ...and more!

You son of a gun, I'm in

Awesome! Currently, we are running it as a WhatsApp group test. If you have WhatsApp installed on your phone, you can request to join this mentorship program by filling the following this google form link: https://bit.ly/linkedin-codedamn-mentorship

I hope this program would be valuable to fellow developers who are desperate to learn new skills or upgrade their skillset to modern skills! Let's get the ball rolling, I've so much to share and provide value for. Questions? Reach out to me on twitter!

Talk to you soon!

Mehul