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Add v7.x release notes
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## v6.x “frontend guy”

Things changed abruptly after the summer military training in 2012. There was little to do, so I had two months to reflect, and came back determined to change something. An interview invite came across, and I gladly accepted. I failed the interview miserably, and that was the trigger. I realised that I love JavaScript way more than C# I was interviewing for. I tidied up my side projects and public profiles, built a decent CV, and started reaching out to companies. After a few weeks of intense interviewing I’ve got a bunch of attractive job offers, and joined Altoros which felt like the best fit culturally. There, I instantly fell in love with the job, it was just like Lego. I spent days and nights in the office, and soon ended up leading and growing a team. After 1.5 years I decided to move from services to product development and joined Fitbit. I went deeper and deeper into web development, spoke at conferences and was an active member of frontend community.

## v7.x “tech generalist”

At some point I started to get curious of other things around. Backend, infrastructure, product, management, hr, processes, etc. The broader I went the more exciting it felt. I started to read a lot again. I went teetotal. I tried to apply systems thinking to whatever I got ahold of and for the most part it worked very well. And we also grew fast, so I ended up the go-to person for quite a lot of things. Then I joined Palantir, and there breadth of opportunities to make lasting impact went truly off the charts. I was free to mix soft and hard skills in pretty much any way conceivable, define new roles, and wear as many hats as I wanted. I became a global citizen, splitting time between Singapore, New York, London and Palo Alto.

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