# From Nine Hundred to One: How We Hired Robin Malfait

DevFeed: [From Nine Hundred to One: How We Hired Robin Malfait](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/from-nine-hundred-to-one-how-we-hired-robin-malfait-3462.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tailwindcss.com/blog/from-900-to-1-how-we-hired-robin-malfait>)

Published: 2020-08-10T13:30:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Tailwind CSS Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tailwind-css-blog.md>)

Topics: [Tailwind CSS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tailwind.md>), [React](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react.md>), [Vue.js](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vue.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>)

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## AI overview

Tailwind Labs describes how it narrowed nearly 900 applications to hire Robin Malfait as a full-stack developer. The article explains the job-posting and selection approach, and notes Robin's React experience, community contributions, and work on open-source renderless UI libraries intended to support React and Vue in Tailwind UI.

## Source excerpt

Back in May we published our first job posting for a full-stack developer to join our team. This is the story of how we worked through almost 900 applications, and eventually hired Robin Malfait, a talented developer from Belgium who is starting with us today.