Welcome Thread - v354

Hello. I originally joined to promote a VS Code extension of mine but after reading some of the posts have been drafting my coming back to coding journey.

Hello everyone! My name is Viktor, and my life has been quite a journey. I’m originally from Russia but moved to South Korea at the age of 20 due to political issues. I worked there for four years as a laborer—construction, greenhouses, factories, I even dismantled mattresses. Later, I flew to Mexico, crossed the border into the U.S., and applied for asylum.

Since then, I’ve worked in wardrobe construction in New York, as a handyman in Chicago, and as a cellular tower technician. I now live in Columbus, Ohio. Six months ago, with no programming experience, I started developing my own memory system for AI, providing long-term memory for large language models. This has transformed my life, and I’m working toward fully transitioning to AI system creation. Pleased to join this community!

Hi everyone, I'm a longtime developer who began his career at IBM in 1996 with RISC600 and then embarked on web and backend development for telecommunications.
I currently manage web management projects for public agencies and, for fun, I develop IoT components for localization and telemetry systems.

Hi Dev.to community!

I'm an Android developer based in Italy. By day, I write code; by night, I'm a parent trying to navigate the digital world with my kids.

Recently, I decided to merge these two worlds. I wasn't happy with existing parental control apps storing my child's data on third-party servers, so I spent the last 6 months building my own solution: SafeStream Guardian.

It's a serverless, P2P monitoring app built with Kotlin and WebRTC. It was a huge challenge (especially handling NAT traversal and background services!), but I learned a ton about Android architecture and security.

I'm here to share my journey, learn from you all, and maybe vent a little about how hard AccessibilityServices are to debug. 😅

My first post: How I built a Serverless, P2P Parental Control app using WebRTC and Kotlin

Happy to be here! Let's connect! 🚀

Hello! I’m an iOS developer and backend engineer with 5+ years of experience building mobile apps for brands such as Nike, 7‑11, and Six Flags. Previously at PayPal I designed large‑scale backend systems that handle millions of requests daily.

Welcome welcome welcome!

Hello there!
After an AWS MLEA training got a bit out of hand, I fell down the rabbit hole of agentic AI systems, RAG, and automation with n8n/LangChain/LangGraph. I’m learning in public here and looking forward to your feedback on my experiments.

Hey everyone!

I’m Sam, a UK dev currently building Inkfluence AI, a tool that turns scattered notes, docs, and ideas into fully formatted eBooks, workbooks, and lead magnets in minutes.

I’ve spent the last year rebuilding it from scratch and finally launched publicly a couple of weeks ago.

If you’ve ever tried to write a book or long-form guide and got stuck organising your ideas, you’ll probably get why I built it.

If you're curious, here it is: Inkfluence AI

Happy to connect with other builders, AI people, or anyone working on publishing/content tools.

Hello all! 👋

Something I've learned about myself while doing interviews lately is that I'm not very articulate about what I do. Likely because I don't talk to people about it.

Now I'm not about to start chatting-up random people about software development and application architecture, but I can write about it! I think this will help me.

So I'm about to unleash a blog upon the world, and I think I've got a good angle.

Hi everyone! I’m a Software Engineer and Virtual Assistant Builder with a deep focus on the plumbing of modern AI—specifically API integrations and complex backend systems.

I’ve spent a lot of time engineering the architecture that allows AI models to actually do things, rather than just chat. My work revolves around bridging the gap between raw LLM intelligence and functional, real-world applications.

I’m here to share insights on:

• Building complex Virtual Assistants that go beyond simple chatbots.
• Robust API integration strategies.
• The architecture of AI-driven systems.

I’m looking forward to connecting with other developers who are pushing the boundaries of what we can build with AI.

Let’s build something great. 🚀

Tags: #intro #ai #webdev #api