From a Destroyed City to a JavaScript Developer
summary
Arrives as a refugee, learns German while joining Ready school, gets a donated laptop, and shifts from C++ game attempts to shipping JavaScript work. Builds a Meteor/Mongo mini social site in three weeks, presents at Cisco Live, meets Mark Zuckerberg, and experiments with VR advice for Unreal Engine. Claims thousands of unfilled developer jobs in Germany, notes many qualified refugees stuck without work authorization or language training.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:58Aleppo
- 1:10Aleppo after the war
- 4:46Playing games
- 6:53Refugees
- 11:17Coming to Berlin
- 12:38Registering as a refugee
- 14:16Learning German
- 16:05Learning Rails
- 16:40Learning JavaScript
- 17:33Cisco Live Berlin
- 18:04Meeting Mark Zuckerberg
- 19:46Virtual Reality
- 21:38Future Projects
- 22:29Questions
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