About

Last Update: November 30, 2024

I’m Aman Mittal, a documentarian and developer. I love to explore and write about different technologies. My journey in the tech world started as a consultant and a Developer Advocate and has evolved through various roles in content development and technical writing.

Work history

I’ve worn many hats over the years:

• 🚀 Software consultant and documentation lead at Expo (2022 — Present)
• 📝 Senior Content Developer at Vercel (2022)
• 🥑 Developer Advocate at Draftbit (2021 — 2022)
• 💻 📝 Software consultant and Tech Writer for Crowdbotics (2018 — 2021)
• Logrocket (Tech Writer, 2020 — 2023)
• Heartbeat (a.k.a FritzAI) (React Native Technical Writer, 2019 — 2020)
• Jscrambler (React Native Technical Writer, 2018 — 2022)

Open soucrce and me

In 2018, I made my first open-source contribution by writing a Twitter Bot for freeCodeCamp’s #100DaysOfCode campaign, which now has over 200k followers. Over the years I’ve made some contributions to some projects and organizations such as Node.js, Gatsbyjs and freeCodeCamp both as a contributor. and I was recognized among the Top 200 Open Source Contributors by freeCodeCamp.org in 2018.

Technical writing

My journey in technical writing started on Medium in 2017. Since then, I’ve:

• Become an AWS Amplify Community contributor in 2019.
• Reached over 2 million views on Medium by July 2020.
• Been recognized as a Distinguished Author and moderator by Dev.to in December 2020.
• Had my work featured as an official resource by Google’s Dev Library in 2021.
• Written over 100 articles and tutorials for more than 30 organizations and tech publications by 2022.

You can find my work in publications like LogRocket, Jscrambler, freeCodeCamp, Expo.io, Sentry, AppSignal, FlyCode, Crowdbotics, Educative Edpresso, Heartbeat.fritz.ai, Draftbit, Dzone, Open Replay, HarperDB, Hackernoon, Alligator.io/Digital Ocean, Newline.co, Geek Culture, JavaScript Plain English.

Other notable publications and organizations: Rising Stack, Codeburst.io, ZeoLearn.com, Art + Marketing, 42hire.com, ITNext, Eduonix, The Startup, JavaBeginnersTutorial.com, LevelUp Gitconnected, Better Programming, React Native Training, Pusher, Instamobile, Soshace, and Transifex Native.

Some of my blog articles and tutorials have featured in esteemed Newsletters: Node Weekly, React Status, Mobile Dev Weekly, Daily.dev Weekly Picks, Mobile Developers Café, and React Native Newsletter.

Speaking engagements

I’ve shared my knowledge at various events:

• 2023: Workshop on developing and deploying React Native apps with Expo and EAS at App.js 2023.
• 2021: Talks on Build Low-Code Apps using Hasura & Draftbit, Building Attractive UIs with Draftbit at Explore Hacks, Getting Started with Drafitbit- Aman Mittal at Hack The Mountains 2.O, The Rise of No-Code and a Guide to Using Draftbit.
• 2020: Session on writing consistently at Hashnode’s Technical Writing Bootcamp.
• 2018: Podcast on setting up and getting used to Gatsby with Charles Max Wood, Cory House, Tara Manicsic, and Kent C. Dodds.

Gear

I work on a M1 Macbook Pro 16” 2023 and use any flat surface as my desk and chair.

Awards and recognition

I was awarded as the Most Authentic Developer Advocate of the Year 2022 at #Noonies2022 by Hackernoon.