He's worked more than 15 years as a developer everywhere from Germany banking sector to London's tech startup scene. He's now a dev rel for hire and runs several open source projects.

We talk about:

• Eddie's journey into open source

• How he built his reputation through hackathons

• How he leveraged his network to find his first freelance clients

• His audio-video setup for filming tutorials

Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's the theme from a 1982 police show.

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Links we talk about during our conversation:

Eddie's YouTube channel with more than 700 tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5mnBodB73bR88fLXHSfzYA

Eddie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eddiejaoude

Eddie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eddiejaoude/