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Look back in 2024 after 2025 started, still feel it's a good year with full empowerment. Integrated into the role at work, luckily, I got supportive colleagues and team members, it provides me opportunities to grow and take ownership in my role. As for life, also fortunate to build my social circle in my hobbies, bouldering, play Saxophone, and spend quality time with friends. Every year is a good year, and will be.

Penny Chiang
Penny Chiang

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Breaking into Engineering: Journey as a Junior Developer

In May 2023, I had the opportunity to interview with Catawiki, a leading online auction platform. At that time, Catawiki did not have any junior developers on board. Fast forward to May 2024, and the landscape has significantly changed. Now, there are more junior developers, including myself, each bringing unique backgrounds and experiences. This shift highlights the growing importance of nurturing new talent in the tech industry. Here’s my story of breaking into engineering, navigating my journey as a junior, and how I ended up here at Catawiki.

Penny Chiang
Penny Chiang
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Bootcamp in AppWorks School

After 5 months of intensive learning (plus 1 month of remote learning) at AppWorks School for frontend development, I completed my personal project, GitDate - a dating and event website for digital nomads. This marks the journey I embarked on, and I am now employed as a frontend developer.

Penny Chiang
Penny Chiang
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The day after.

Hello, world. To communicate with the world, I decided to build a blog to share some thoughts as a developer. To start, the first thing is to start with something simple. This blog is built with Next.js and blog-starter.

Penny Chiang
Penny Chiang