In my student days I always had the ability to support and teach my classmates how to solve the problems and tasks of the university, but I always worried who could help me. That's how little by little I went out to explore the city and the development meetings despite studying and living so far away. The people of the industry began to recognize me as someone passionate, that is why they invited me to learn and collaborate. Facebook and Devf gave me the opportunity to study frontend development with angular, but what I really wanted to learn was React, a technology that only a few knew at the time. Searching between communities, I discovered Facebook developer circles. I met amazing people who were willing to support you, including Miguel, who was my mentor for a few months and helped me learn React and React Native.
That made people see me as an interesting developer and, finally, I found a job where I could do what I like and what I'm good at.
My name is José Carlos Correa and I am currently teacher assistant at Ironhack and I participate actively in a lot of tech communities in México city. For me, development communities are important sources of knowledge and Facebook developer circles have been like a family since the first day.