Hi there!

My name is Ndeye Fatou Diop, and I am a Senior Frontend developer from Senegal 🇸🇳, living in France.

I have been working at Palantir since 2018.

My non-linear journey with Frontend development started in 2014:

in 2014, I interned at a company using WordPress ⇒ this introduced me to Web Development

2014 - 2018: While in college, I learned basic Web Development and applied it to small projects. I could do basic HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, Django, etc.

June 2018 - June 2020: I worked as a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir with Python, Spark, etc… and occasionally with Javascript

Since June 2020, I have been working full-time as a FE engineer.

Sadly, until 2019, I couldn’t level up my JS skills and understand why the JS ecosystem was so complex 😢. I tested different learning platforms (Codeacademy, Treehouse, Udemy) but was unsuccessful.

Then, I stumbled across the YDNJS book series and FrontendMasters, which immensely helped me. They also made me realize my biggest mistake: I didn’t know the fundamentals. Because I was self-learned, I didn’t take the time to master the basics, and as a result, a lot of things look like magic 🧙🏾‍♀️ to me.

I don’t want other people to make the same mistakes. That is why I created this blog to help overwhelmed junior frontend devs reach the next level in their career painlessly. I want you to know why some technologies exist (CSS, React, Typescript, etc.), and what you need to know about them.

If you are learning Web Development and feel overwhelmed, join me on this journey 🥳.

Feel free to contact me on Twitter || Reddit || LinkedIn.