The Mongoose Journey: From Novice to Maintainer

In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Valeri Karpov. Val has been the solo maintainer of Mongoose since 2014. This episode with Val continues our maintainer spotlight series where we dig deep into the life of an open source software maintainer. We’re producing this series in partnership with Tidelift. Huge thanks to Tidelift for making this series possible.

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Featuring:

• Valeri Karpov – Website, GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Tools Val uses

• Acquit
• Mocha
• ESlint
• serve

People Val respects

• Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
• Gleb Bahmutov
• Misko Hevery
• Vojta Jina

Val’s ebooks

• The 80/20 Guide to ES2015 Generators
• Mastering Async/Await

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!