Welcome to the community, Garriga!
Big fan of v0 and all the work the Vercel team has put into the product. I have been designing a super app over the past decade and until I discovered v0 about a month, had no way of accomplishing the amount of work as a single dev. Now I am almost finished with the super app. Still have much to learn about v0 and Vercel, and look forward to sharing the project with you soon. Thank you so much!
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Welcome to the community, @jamesmadisonpayne-29!
Glad to hear you’re enjoying v0. I look forward to seeing it in our Showcase soon 
Howdy everyone! I’m Gabs! I’m perhaps a little late to this thread lol but I’m excited to be here nonetheless!
Most recently I was a technical program manager at Cloudflare! I initially supported the AI Portfolio and Dev Rel & Community teams (as well as special projects like our startup program and open source sponsorships) but then moved to supporting our Developer GTM org!
Now I’m taking a career break and working on a digital healthcare app with my husband!
I love Vercel and kind of silently watched from a distance in awe when I worked at CF! I love the work the community team is doing here!
I’m planning on making some contributions soon.. notably I want to:
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Share a GitHub repo for a dev rel health dashboard that I think can be helpful for companies who are building out dev rel teams and want to track content across different platforms and
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Share a blog post + automation tool repo for planning, facilitating, and following up on in person community events! I’ve gotten in down to a science and think it can be helpful!
I’m really looking forward to lurking in the community forums, attending the weekly events here, and hopefully meeting some of the Vercel team!
Love this space so much!
Some fun facts about me (feel free to ama):
I went to college when I was 13
I worked at NASA for a bit (I didn’t meet any aliens, unfortunately
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My dad owns a crime scene cleanup business that I helped with as a teenager
I met my husband on a tabletop gaming subreddit (which is, like, the most Gen Z chronically online thing ever lol)
I’ve recently started doing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu earlier this year and I’m absolutely in love with it
I’m a huge believer of radical kindness and do a random act of kindness every day!
Cheers,
-Gabs
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Hi everyone 
, I’m Shakil Ilham from Sri Lanka. I’m really excited to be part of this community. Let’s stay connected and keep the momentum going. 
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Welcome! I look forward to hearing more from y’all 
@gabby-2486 I definitely need to know more about going to college at 13 and working at NASA. What a unique experience!
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@amyegan Okay so “here’s the tea” (as the kids say lol).
In regards to college at 13:
So I never really liked school. I was always super bored and wanted to explore my own interests. When I was in 8th grade, one of the high schoolers came to visit to talk about “college credit plus” which was where you could leave high school and go take college classes at our local university. Getting to leave school for a few hours a day sounded amazing so I immediately went home and researched it and eventually realized that I could just enroll in college. The only requirement was getting a certain score on the ACT and registering as a college credit plus student so all the college classes I took qualified as high school classes too. This program was called “early college” and the local university set aside about 100 “seats” for non-adult students.
The only issue is that my mom is a teacher and my family was very traditional so they never would have let me just enroll in college. So I somehow registered for the ACT, went to the library to study for it for months, passed with enough points to get into college, enrolled myself in college, called the local high school and unenrolled myself - all without my parents noticing somehow lol.
Then about a week before I would have went to high school, I told my mom “Oh hey! By the way.. I enrolled in college and classes start next week so I will need a ride downtown.” And I explained the entire situation. She was livid but I had unenrolled myself from the local high school so I had to attend university. My parents initially just wanted me to attend the university for 1 semester and return to normal high school later in the year but I was actually doing pretty well so my dad convinced her to let me stay!
My mom and I laugh about this whole situation now! I had so many great experiences and opportunities while in college but it was definitely an “impulsive neurodivergent 13 year old side quest that somehow panned out” situation lol.
In regards to NASA:
Somehow this is less interesting story than my college experience lol? I’ve gone on way too many side quests in my life I think.
I was working in finance as a scrum master and I got a call one day from a guy at NASA who was like, “Hey I saw your LinkedIn.. do you want a job at NASA?” And I was like, “uhhhh of course!?”
I led a digital transformation at one of NASA’s research centers where we transitioned ~60 applications that supported NASA and NASA’s educational partners to an agile model. Really smart folks. Led an awesome team. Met a lot of rocket scientists! I also got to work with artificial intelligence pre-ChatGPT which felt like such a huge privilege.
Unfortunately I did not get to go to space or meet any aliens
I’m glad the early college side quest worked out for you, but very sad you didn’t get to meet aliens