I would highly recommend posting questions and queries on the forum… not only will you (hopefully) get the help and guidance you need, but your threads could potentially go on to help hundreds, possibly thousands of people in the future

Have a look at the format members such as @Fl4m3Ph03n1x use, which I think are a good format to follow:

Connection parameters in Ecto

Functional Architecture in Elixir

London school TDD books?

Good luck

I had a similar background to you. I have stronger front-end/JavaScript skills than Elixir at this moment but I’m switching. I’d like to share some of my experiences:

According to the book Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, skills are acquired by training.

Training is not just learning. It means cycles:

1. One or more mentors (which is what you are seeking in this forum, what a good start!)
2. A skill map, and a list of your weakness from mentors, with priorities, so that you know where to go and can follow your own path of acquiring
3. Practices, targeting the weaknesses
4. Feedbacks on practices helping you know how you’re doing and going through difficult parts.
5. Go to step 1

Mentors have not to be human, as long as they can help you see weaknesses and make plans of practicing. For example, you can make some small projects such as a Todo list then compared to others.

I found exercism.io especially a great place to harp my Elixir language skill. It has a lot of pre-created practices. But the most exciting part is it provides a LOT of mentors, not only the real human mentors of the track, but also the experts doing the same practices as you and you can learn SO MUCH from their codes. When I finished the Elixir Track, I acquired a lot of patterns in my brain.

Besides to language practices, you also need other practices for engineering, e.g deployment, to be familiar to tool sets and the ecosystem. This depends on what you want to build though.

Also, I’m free off work for the next months and willing to help, if you are interested.

I am fairly busy lately – with job hunt and frantically finishing several big tasks in my future former employer – but I wouldn’t refuse you if it’s for a few times a month. Feel free to PM me or add me as a reviewer in PRs.