#145 Open Source Superstar and Roadmap.sh Founder Kamran Ahmed
The freeCodeCamp Podcast
Quincy Larson
5.0 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Kamran Ahmed. He's a software engineer and founder of Roadmap.sh, which has skill tree roadmaps for lots of developer fields, such as DevOps. As a teacher, he's also a Google Developer Expert and a GitHub Star.
We talk about:
- Kamran's tips for finding the right open source projects to contribute to
- The story behind Roadmap.sh, his popular developer website
- Other specialized open source Kamran has built over the years
- How Kamran became a Google Developer Expert and GitHub Star
Can you guess what song I'm playing during the intro?
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Links we talk about during our conversation:
- Kamran's website, Roadmap.sh: https://roadmap.sh/
- Kamran's "Design Patterns for Humans" GitHub book: https://github.com/kamranahmedse/design-patterns-for-humans
- freeCodeCamp's "How to Contribute to Open Source guide" Quincy mentions: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-contribute-to-open-source-projects-beginners-guide/
- Kamran on Twitter: https://x.com/kamrify
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | He used to encourage that people don't just go home and leave their laptop, go home. |
| 0:06.1 | Like, he used to say that laptop should be a part of your body at that time. |
| 0:10.8 | So he used to say that. |
| 0:13.2 | And then I was spending like almost like till 1 a.m. in the office. |
| 0:17.5 | We were sitting there. |
| 0:18.2 | We were basically living there. |
| 0:19.3 | So he was like a family member. Welcome back to the Free Code Camp podcast. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm Quincy Larson, teacher and founder of FreecodeCamp.org. |
| 0:52.9 | Each week, we're bringing you insight from developers, founders, and ambitious people getting into tech. |
| 0:58.5 | This week, we're talking with Comrade Ahmed. |
| 1:01.5 | He's a software engineer and founder of roadmap.sh, which has skill tree roadmaps for lots of developer fields such as DevOps. |
| 1:10.4 | As a teacher, he's also a Google developer expert and a GitHub star. |
| 1:15.5 | Kamran, it's a pleasure to have you here, man. |
| 1:17.6 | Thank you for having me, Quincy. |
| 1:19.5 | Yeah, and I'm a long-time fan of yours and of roadmap.sh. |
| 1:23.8 | I've written articles about how cool these visual roadmaps of different skills you |
| 1:28.8 | should acquire as a developer, like depending on which fields you want to go into. These are |
| 1:32.5 | super useful. I'm a big fan of Free CodeCamp as well. I mean, I came across it a long time |
| 1:40.2 | ago, like after one year of launching roadmap. And I came across by a comment on |
| 1:46.8 | Reddit, someone mentioned that go take a roadmap from roadmap.s and learn from FreeCodeCamp. |
| 1:52.1 | It's good that I came across it later. Otherwise, I might not have launched Roadmap. I mean, |
| 1:56.0 | free code camp was already there. It was a good enough resource. I didn't know that there is |
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