Project: gdevxy

2024, I'm approaching my 40 and have been a software engineer for more than a decade. Like every engineers, I suffer now and then from the impostor syndrome. I am passionate and put the hours but objectively I am not a super-star either and I need to work hard, every day, to get to the level I want to be.

October 2024, it is my second Devoxx in Antwerp, Belgium . There are so many people that I look up to, well-regarded speakers and engineers such as Mario Fusco, Nicolai Parlog, Venkat S. or Victor Rentea. First row, I am bathing in this sheer knowledge and kindness of other peers willing to dedicate their life to the community.

The Devoxx had not even finished yet that the idea emerged: "F*ck yeah! This is what I want to do too! but... the gap feels so big, can I really do this?".

I am not even back home, that project gdevxy is born. It is a personal challenge of two points :

The road to becoming Java Champion is mammoth and feels absolutely out of reach. However, there is at least one thing I know I am good at, it is perseverance, dedication and hard work!

Until now, I had never really taken part in any community frameworks, I had never been a regular contributor on stack-overflow nor have I ever been involved in open-source projects. In summary, I s*ck and everything is to be done!

2025 will be a new beginning and I will share my tale with you, for the greater good!