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It has been a crazy 13^th month this month. With my head spinning good I blissfully have enjoyed unexpected turns on my journey as a developer after such an embracing entrance in the public developer community. And I want to give something back- because you might have noticed that I have a lot of energy (please feel free to feel sorry for my parents…)?

A few weeks ago I got a great opportunity. Telerik contacted me, and we had many great conversations in the weeks that followed. I like to talk. They like to talk. We almost shared BFF hearts.

Look, this company is a market-leading provider in tools for agile project management, collaboration, development and testing,- so I was very flattered of course. But for me the people involved and what they stand for is what really counts if you want to count me in. I’ve had great jobs, and shit ones. The deciding factor greatness vs shitness lies with the people, beliefs and passion. I had already talked to quite a few of the developers when testing some beta components and I was impressed with the support (even when I had complaints), and as I got to meet even more team members I got a little Telerik crush going on.

I called my parents in the middle of the night. My dad doesn’t know what I am doing, so explaining ‘Telerik’ and ‘Evangelism’ ended up being translated as me working for a phone company, and something about blogging about weird religions.

But in short, I love passionate people that really love what they are doing with an unstoppable drive to do great and be great. It felt like home and I wanted to move in. And so I did. We never shared a BFF heart, by we added each other on skype and exchanged paperwork. That’s the grownup way to BFF somebody I’ve been told.

So I am now, part time, hired as a Technical Evangelist for Telerik. I’ll be sharing my time with Dotnet Mentor were I will be continuing to work as a software developer (loving it just as much), so I won’t be relocating. Fingers crossed, I might get to do a fair bit of traveling – I can’t describe how much I enjoy meeting developers from all over the world! It’s just awesome (and I mean awesome as in superlative awesome, not awesome = good).

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