In a way, I owe my current job at Replay.io (a time-traveling debugger for JS) to having spent years maintaining the Redux JS state management libraries. I got

In a way, I owe my current job at Replay.io (a time-traveling debugger for JS) to having spent years maintaining the Redux JS state management libraries. I got involved with Redux at the start of 2016, and Dan Abramov handed me the maintainer keys that summer after he got busy working on React. Over the next several years I've put in thousands of hours maintaining the libraries (Redux, React-Redux, Redux Toolkit, Reselect), answering questions, rewriting our docs, and writing articles. That gave me a chance to start doing conference talks. When I finally announced I was looking for a new position in January 2022, after 14 years at my previous job, I got flooded with companies expressing interest. The one that actually caught my attention was Replay.io. The culture fit was perfect (smart people building an amazingly useful tool and solving unique techhnical problems), they knew me from my Redux work, the codebase used React + Redux, and it fit my history of working on dev tools that involved time travel in some way. So, lots of overlap, and I'm having a blast there still :)