About Me
From a young age I didn't really know what I wanted to be growing up. Literally up until Senior High I still didn't know what job or field I wanted to be in. Since 11 years old I was just playing countless hours of Team Fortress 2 and playing peak CS:GO in 2015. I wanted to be a professional esport player at the time and almost did so in 2022 in Valorant, but decided to back off due to total burn out and disappearance of passion of playing competitive games.
Timeline
2017-2019
This is where I first discovered programming, well if you can count HTML on a notepad as one. It was for my IT Class back in Junior High School and we just made simple websites. We eventually evolved to also use CSS but mainly for these 3 years just regular Notepad with HTML+CSS with nothing much else.
2021
In Senior High, I got re introduced to programming for another IT Class, but this time it was regular Java on a web compiler. We made some basic stuff like creating a tree out of * but again, nothing much else and at the time it hadn't really piqued my interest.
2022
This is when I finally got the interest into the world of coding and programming. For our final term in Senior High we were given options to pick electives that would represent different courses in college. So kinda like an intro to college if you will. I chose the IT/Computer Science elective and strayed away from ABM (Accountancy, Business, Management) class. Fair to say I enjoyed my time here and from here I decided to go all in on Computer Science, with thought of everything runs on computers, so why not be part of that industry and a gut feeling that tech will be the future.
2023 - Present
Throughout my 4 years in Computer Science has been a surreal experience. Experiencing the birth of AI to the public and then seeing it evolve throughout my time here in college has been pretty cool to say the least. I have learned so much, yet, there is much to learn. Internship here we go!
Inspirations
Linus Torvalds
Creator of Linux and Git
I saw it as a solution to my problems.
Terry Davis
Creator of TempleOS and HolyC1969 - 2018
An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity.
Salvatore Sanfilippo
Creator of Redis
Similar to Linus with Git and Linux, reading about the creator of Redis made me realize that some projects and tools are not built to impress the world. They are built to solve problems based on what is needed.
David Heinemeier Hansson (a.k.a. DHH)
Creator of Ruby on Rails, Omarchy, Co-owner of 37signals, Shopify Board Member
Controversial pick I know, but after watching lots of content from DHH, what I learned from him is to never forget to be enthusiastic in the world of Programming. Have some fun, be joyous, be unapologetically enthusiastic about the new, current, and future technology.