161 - Next.js w/ Tim Neutkens

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hello and welcome to the six figure developer podcast the podcast where we talk about new and exciting technologies professional development clean code career advancement and more i'm john callaway and i'm clayton hunt with us today is tim newtkens tim is the co-author and lead maintainer of next js and is the co-author of the mdx library for dynamic markdown documents he has a passion for creating scalable applications and improving the developer experience welcome tim

thanks hey thanks for having me um yeah hi how's it going it's going great thank you um so why don't you go ahead and tell our audience um kind of how you got started in the industry and how you got to where you are today yeah so i um started programming at around 15 or 16 i can't remember exactly um and it was basically just building websites for my family and friends and all that and then eventually

i basically started an education in it management which is completely not software engineering um and basically in the second year of that education i had to do an internship i was very fortunate to get an internship at a development agency so they mostly did like web development

building websites all that and i basically uh stuck around there um so i uh started building websites all that uh and eventually decided to hire me um that turned out really well uh so i um started contributing to open source um and eventually through working on open source working on uh like multiple projects from purcell uh as an open source contributor in my free time i eventually got higher to work full

time on basically my hobby projects that i uh and yeah i've been been doing that ever since uh which is almost three years ago um yeah that's the short so i just took it that's pretty cool getting getting paid full time to work on your hobby projects is awesome yeah for sure yeah so in your bio it says that you're the