Gregor Martynus - Maintainer of the JavaScript Octokit, GitHub's official JavaScript SDK

Talking Points:

• Maintaining GitHub's official JavaScript SDK
• Making users and developers life's easier
• Being a valuable asset to your manager and team
• Growth through communication
• You are entitled to mentorship

Quotable Quotes:

• "I would say you are entitled to mentoring." - GM
• "You [Junior dev] have a unique perspective that I lost a long time ago" - GM
• "It's an easy sell. If you say I can automate this with two hours of work." - GM
• "Writing skills are so important besides the coding aspect itself." - GM
• "Maybe you're out of university or boot camp or a career change, you still have to great perspective." - GM
• "When you do any kind of interview, a question I would definitely ask is, what is your mentorship program?" - GM
• "When you look over the shoulder of a more experienced developer, you will have so many points where you will be like...how did you do that?" - GM

Notes: 
octokit.js - GitHub's official JS SDK for their platform APIs:
github.com/octokit/octokit.js/
A Twitter account tweeting issues for first-time contributors:
twitter.com/first_tmrs_only
A complete backend for your apps:
hood.ie
Hood.ie's GitHub:

github.com/hoodiehq

A whole community about landing open source contributions by @bdougie:
opensauced.pizza
Gregor's Twitter:
twitter.com/gr2m
Gregor's Github
github.com/gr2m
Gregor's Helpdesk Show:
github.com/gr2m/helpdesk
Junior to Senior Community
community.juniortosenior.io