Early Beginnings.

At some point during my childhood, my aunt moved in to stay with us for a couple of years. She had a Nokia phone that ran on Series 40 OS and I always played games on her phone. There was also this neighbour who was in senior secondary school at the time, I was in primary school btw and he had a lot of games on his phone. I wondered about how his phone had those games and my aunt's didn’t. I asked him and he introduced me to sefan.ru and waptrick. Right here was were I fell in love with computers and video games. I downloaded a whole lot of games on my aunt’s phone, and surfed the Internet almost everyday. Fast forward to a couple of years later, my aunt had moved out, and I got my first phone (the first phone I ever owned that could use the Internet atleast). I started to use social networks – Facebook and 2go. I even got an app that ran 3 apps on my phone, but not simultaneously. I then learnt about symbian OS phones and how they could run multiple apps at once. 2 years later, the world of mobile phones changed (this is my opinion btw), it became more sophisticated with ios and android phones, it could run multiple apps simultaneously, I was blown away by the flash light feature, also and the games got even better. All this while, I was intrigued about how computers worked, how I could run games on my phone, use the Internet and even make phone calls. Although I was always interested, it was not up to a whole lot of years later that I got into tech.

Let’s dive into my tech journey.

Sometime Dec ’19, I started to learn python programming from Mosh Hamedani on his YouTube channel. I stopped a couple of weeks later because I no longer had a PC .In March, I got a new PC and continued where I left off. I initially planned to go into web development but the number of people I saw in the field made me rethink my decision. I decided I was going to be different and not do what everyone was doing. I then heard about this buzzword “Machine Learning”. I was immediately interested considering the fact that I could draw insights into the future. Little did I know that I was going into what I now call “the right field at the wrong time”. ML, as people in the industry love to call it, is a research field that most of the job openings I have seen require atleast masters degree. For someone who is just half way through his first degree, it was a wrong move. After about 2 years in the field having learnt the entire ML cycle from framing the business problem to model deployment, I quit. A few months ago I retraced my steps and found love in backend development for both Web and mobile. I was challenged with which programming language and framework to use. This time around, I decided to use the same framework everyone is using – MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React and Node)

It has been a lovely couple of months and I feel like I have made a very good decision.