Hi I'm Rafael Romero, a Computer Engineer and a Frontend Developer from Venezuela. I always introduce myself the same way because I'm not very known in any tech community, I am a 5 year club member of dev.to and I really enjoy reading a lot of articles and seeing the wins of the week. There are a lot of amazing people in Dev and I've always wanted to be part of the community in a more significant way, write blogs and share experiences. That's why I joined Dev in the first place and I hope to write some posts before this year's end.

I really love Hacktoberfest. My first one was in 2019 and it was --in part-- the reason why I got a job in 2020 and since then I've always tried to complete the challenge and I always try to up the complexity of my contributions. In 2020 and 2021 I was full of work in October but I successfully returned to the challenge last year, I made my first project with Next.js and overall I felt really good with my contributions even if they are small.

This year, I've had some trouble starting my open source journey but I will start today, even if I start with something simple like some minor UI changes. My goal is to keep contributing after the Hacktoberfest so I want to find projects I think are cool or innovative and if able, help with frontend related issues so I can apply my knowledge in different projects, learn from different systems and code bases and help others.

Finally, congrats to everyone that already completed the challenge as of today, cheers to those that are half way there and for all of you that haven't made up your mind or are having some difficulties on the way, keep going, you can do it. Happy coding!